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Timothy alone was exempt, being in gilt-edged securities. But now, between two of them at least, had arisen a very different sense of injury. From the moment when James had the impertinence to pry into his affairs as he put it old Jolyon no longer chose to credit this story about Bosinney. His grand-daughter slighted through a member of 'that fellow's' family!
"And I won't take them!" cried Damie, and he spat out a bit of wood. "And I'll tell her that she must buy you a knife too. I shall stay home all day today she's coming to see us." "Yes, if she were only there already," replied Damie without knowing what he said; for a feeling that he had been slighted made him jealous and reproachful.
Of giving this assurance, and of quieting by it the clamours of the people; clamours which, whether just or not, are too formidable to be slighted, and too loud not to be heard, we have now the most proper opportunity before us.
That, I think, will do for us both." Mrs. Fairfax agreed, her kindly eyes fixed upon Uncle Noah's attentive face. "And, sah," Uncle Noah began it was Christmas Eve and this game must be perfectly played "shall I attend to de distribution of gifts in de negroes' quarters, sah?" "Yes," agreed the Colonel, "see that no one is slighted!" Mrs.
It is the dark side of her life, which she lived to comprehend." This "dark side" suggests itself. It is impossible to read the record of Madame Récamier's conquests without thinking of women slighted and neglected for her sake. The greater number of her admirers were married men.
Faults and manners are not the same. At bottom you lack in manners; and that will ruin you at last." "You slighted my mother!" "Oh, no! and if I had, you should not have seen it." "I am not used to swallow insults. It is your way, sir. I know your dealings with my father." "A little more brandy, please. But your father had manners, after all.
The girl could not resist an exclamation of surprise, which her father hushed by a word and look so peremptory, that she saw remonstrance was in vain, and a silence of some moments ensued; for it was rather startling, this immediate offer of a girl who had been so strangely slighted, and the men were not quite prepared to make advances, until they knew something more of the why and wherefore of her sweetheart's desertion.
You have felt yourself slighted because his name has been mentioned with praise; and your jealousy has been wounded because you have thought that I have regarded him as in some way superior to yourself.
"I think, therefore, that I should be as deficient in public duty as in generosity, if I did not evince my gratitude for your unsolicited remembrance by saying that, should the difficulty I allude to be found really to exist, I shall not feel myself slighted or aggrieved should your kindness proceed no further, pending such an unfortunate state of feeling.
He looked at the eager faces gathered all round him, and said helplessly, "What does it mean? I don't exactly understand." "It's your Christmas pie, grandfather, for we couldn't let the day go by without your having a taste. When you find all the good things that are in that pie I don't think you'll feel slighted, even if Aunt Bettie's mince pie is denied," exclaimed Alsie enthusiastically.
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