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Fordyce's resolution that Griffith should enjoy none of the privileges of an accepted suitor before the engagement was an actual fact. Ellen was obedient and conscientious; and would neither transgress nor endure to have her mother railed at by Griff's hasty tongue, and this affronted him, and led to little breezes. When people overstay their usual time, tempers are apt to get rather difficult.
He had himself, as he conceived, been affronted in a manner not to be passed over; and his stealing of the pots he meant merely as a spirited act of retaliation, which would in some degree throw back the insult he had received upon those who had inflicted it, and make them in their turn feel mortified and on fire for satisfaction.
Bull drew a sharp breath. Strong, forceful as he was the figure was overwhelming. "This all this you're saying offering? It's all real, true?" Bull demanded at last. "All of it." "You want me to go and take possession of Sachigo, and ten Say, where's the catch?" "There's no 'catch' anywhere." The denial was cold. It was almost in the tone of affronted dignity.
The squire, however, was not remounted, without first having undergone a severe reprehension from his master, who upbraided him with his cowardice, threatened to chastise him on the spot, and declared that he would divorce his dastardly soul from his body, should he ever be incommoded or affronted with another instance of his baseborn apprehension.
Winton's face expressed nothing but cold contempt. That this fellow should take him for one who would consider money in connection with his daughter simply affronted him. Fiorsen went on: "You do not like me that is clear. I saw it the first moment. You are an English gentleman" he pronounced the words with a sort of irony "I am nothing to you. Yet, in MY world, I am something.
The tide of popular feeling was so strong that a man who was known not to have signed ran considerable risk of being publicly affronted. In many places nobody appeared without wearing in his hat a red riband on which were embroidered the words, "General Association for King William."
"Uncle Philip, since you only come here to insult us, I hope in future you will stay at home." "Oh! with pleasure, sir. Good-by!" Christopher Staines came back, looking pained and disturbed. "There," said he, "I feared it would come to this. I have quarrelled with Uncle Philip." "Oh! how could you?" "He affronted me." "What about?" "Never you mind. Don't let us say anything more about it, darling.
In connection with humility, some one asks, "How about that text, 'In honor preferring one another?" When a soul comes into perfect humility before God it becomes nothing, and God becomes all in all. I am nothing. There is no self to be affronted; I have said before God: "I am nothing; it is only Thy life and light that shines.
One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation to him: "By the way, have you any political opinions?" "The idea!" said Marius, almost affronted by the question. "What are you?" "A democrat-Bonapartist." "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Cafe Musain.
That she was coming to apologize, and that they should have to spend the evening by themselves, was the first black idea; and Mary was quite ready to be affronted, when Louisa made all right by saying, that she only came on foot, to leave more room for the harp, which was bringing in the carriage. "And I will tell you our reason," she added, "and all about it.
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