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"I hope it will never sting me, then," said Joyce. "I hope not," said Grandma. "The boy and girl in my story were stung severely; but it was all their own fault, as you shall see. "Anna and her brother lived near a pond, and when the cold weather came it was great fun to skate on the ice. Oftentimes they would slide across it on their way to school.
And when the Bug sang that the bees listened to the wasp till the swarm was near to perishing, the people growled and snarled, and when the Bug sang that at last the good bees arose and stung the wasp to death, the people picked up stones from the ground and stoned Split-Nose to death till there was naught to be seen of him but the heap of stones they had flung on top of him.
Linton felt this when he found that they were recaptured, and, stung with regret, although he was in no manner to blame, he agreed on the pursuit with a zeal which very nearly led to the destruction of himself and his followers. We left him severely, if not mortally, wounded, off the mouth of the pirate's harbour.
Stung by the slanderous report of an anonymous eavesdropper to whom the government of the day was not ashamed to listen, he had quitted Vienna, too hastily, it may be, but wounded, indignant, feeling that he had been unworthily treated. It fell upon "the new-healed wound of malice," and though he would not own it, and bore up against it, it was a shock from which he never fully recovered.
He hated the sight of her, for the sight stung him. He hated the corn-cake and the untaught children. He hated the whole dreary, dragging, needy home. The ruin of it dogged him like a ghost, and he should be the ruin of it as long as he stayed in it. Once fairly rid of him, his scolding and drinking, his wasting and failing, Annie would send the children to work, and find ways to live.
The ball hit me right in the centre of the palm with such force that it stung most painfully, and I had not the least hesitation in dropping it. There were groans of disappointment from the males, execrations from Penny, and murmurs of sympathy and love from the female portion of the crowd. But my sensations were again the opposite to the crowd's.
Were she to see it, she would be stung with remorse, she would behold the probable effects of her present indifference, she would relent. "No one knew of my painting. I would keep it a profound secret, till it was a complete and glorious success.
It is something tender intense profound, too feminine. It may come to her some day, perhaps but hitherto Jacqueline's expression has been generally that of a merry, mischievous child." "Oh, papa!" cried the young girl, stung by the insult. "You may possibly be right," Marien hastened to reply, "it was probably the fatigue of posing that gave her that expression."
I would not have bothered you with any of this had it not been for something else of which I'll speak in a moment. If everything is right between us between you and me then it doesn't matter if the whole world talks until it's blue in the face." "Leave it alone, then," she said. "Let them talk." Her indifference stung him.
He heard the clatter of hoofs, the whip stung across his face, a third antagonist struck him between the eyes, and the man he held wrenched himself free and made off down the lane in the direction from which he had come.
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