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I was in Macy's one day when the girl ran across some acquaintances. She bowed and smiled to them, as I suppose she had always been in the habit of doing; but the petted darlings of le bon ton drew themselves up haughtily, stared rudely at her, and passed on, while the poor child flushed, then paled, and looked ready to drop.
Lynch closed his ears and gave out oath after oath till the dray had passed. Then he turned on his heel rudely. Stephen turned also and waited for a few moments till his companion's ill-humour had had its vent.
Left alone to perform her task Hetty opened her desk and sat biting her pen. At last she wrote: "Dear Phyllis, I am very sorry I said so rudely that you did not tell the truth. But oh, why did you not tell it, and then there need not have been any trouble? Hetty brought this note herself into the school-room, and in presence of Miss Davis handed it to Phyllis.
Vere, "by the flippancy of speech, and pertness of argument, by which you have disgusted Sir Frederick, and given me of late such deep offence?" "If my manner has been so unfortunate as to displease you, sir, it is impossible for me to apologize too deeply, or too sincerely; but I cannot confess the same contrition for having answered Sir Frederick flippantly when he pressed me rudely.
the test is comparatively simple. A great poet would not have written such a line, perhaps. But a minor poet could not. Supposing that a lyric poet of the new school really had to deal with such an idea as that expressed in Pope's line about Man: 'A being darkly wise and rudely great. Is it really so certain that he would go deeper into the matter than that old antithetical jingle goes?
This last is composed of pieces of bark, very rudely piled together, in shape as like a soldier's tent as any known image to which I can compare it: too low to admit the lord of it to stand upright, but long and wide enough to admit three or four persons to lie under it.
The very elementary principles of our ritual and discipline have been rudely questioned; our apostolical polity has been ridiculed and denied."
"Then you have been guilty of some great oversight by allowing it to appear higher than the other," returned the king, rudely. "Your plan is ridiculous, and the sooner you set about mending it the better." "Sire," said Louvois, bitterly, "when praise was to be awarded, the credit of the plan was Mansard's " "But as you did not choose to concede it, you must accept the blame of your blunder.
"You are not serious, Mr. Denton; I see laughter in your eyes," said Faith, smiling. "But I will get up the petition at once, as you suggest, and I shall pray that our appeal may not be in vain." She had paused at a street corner and was extending her hand to say good-by to the young man when a woman passed them and jostled Faith rudely. It was Maggie Brady, the girl who loved Jim Denton.
At these words the students fell back with as much eagerness as respectful admiration, on seeing the charming face of Clemence, to which emotion had given a most lively color. "Madame d'Harville," cried the Count de Saint Remy, pushing the doctor rudely aside, and advancing toward Clemence. "Oh! it is heaven who sends here one of its angels.
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