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Now, you've spoiled everything." She pretended to be very vexed with him. The big fellow looked puzzled. He tried to protest, but she put a warning finger to her lips and pressed the little brown satchel into his hand. "It's no use," she went on hurriedly. "We might as well tell them everything now." She turned to Douglas and pretended to laugh. "You have found us out."
He wore a cap and dressing-gown, and looked vexed, but not ill-natured, on seeing me. I was much embarrassed, and, forgetting what I had proposed to say to him, I put R.'s card into his hand without a word. His eye lighted up instantly. "You are from America? You are welcome! How is my friend?" were words rapidly enunciated.
He was thoroughly vexed that he had rashly put himself in so awkward a dilemma; he almost wished himself back in St. Paul. At last the Superior Being roused his horses into a final dash, and came rushing up to the door of the "City Hotel" with his usual flourish. "Hooray! Howdy! I know'd you'd be along to-night," cried the Poet.
He would have taken up his earnest appeal where he left it; but somehow or other he felt a difficulty in speaking, and the deep attention was evidently gone from his hearers. He hesitated. They were already dispersing: should he call them back? He felt as if he could not. He turned sadly towards home, deeply vexed and chafed in his spirit.
"Really, mother, I don't know whether I felt proud of the boy or vexed when he faced that great human ox." "I do," said Mrs Winthorpe smiling, but with the tears in her eyes "proud." "Yes, I think I did," said the squire. "Good-night!" "Don't you think some one ought to sit up with Mr Marston?"
But Titus, who felt that the eyes of Greece were upon him, was wonderfully vexed by these incidents. For this reason he conducted the operations which followed without in the least degree consulting the Ætolians.
They were vexed by my saying I should be well pleased if, after the close of this life, we were blessed with another, only I hoped I should hereafter meet none of those who had believed in it here. For how should I be tormented! The pious would throng around me, and say, 'Were we not right? Did we not predict it?
Akakiy Akakievitch was vexed at arriving at the precise moment when Petrovitch was angry; he liked to order something of Petrovitch when the latter was a little downhearted, or, as his wife expressed it, "when he had settled himself with brandy, the one-eyed devil!" Under such circumstances, Petrovitch generally came down in his price very readily, and even bowed and returned thanks.
She——" and then followed Joy's own version of the morning's dispute. Gypsy was vexed. She liked her uncle, and she did not like to have him hear such one-sided stories of her, and judge her as he would. She walked over to Joy with very red cheeks. "Here's your letter. I tried not to read it, but I couldn't help seeing that about me.
"You might be, and not mind owning it," he replied, making an excuse of her words to scrutinise her face with a frank admiration that sent the colour to her cheeks, though she was more vexed than pleased. "I mean that I don't like flattery." "Are you sure?" he asked, with apparent surprise. "Of course I am. What a question!" "Excuse me; I only asked because I never met any one before who didn't."
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