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Soon after this vessel was seen, we had proof how difficult it is to judge of a ship's size at sea. A vessel was made ahead, standing directly for us. Mr. Irish soon pronounced her a sloop of war. Half an hour later she grew into a frigate, but when she came abeam she showed three tiers of ports, being a ninety. This ship also passed without deigning to take any notice of us.
A red blaze shot into her face, and without deigning to look in the direction of the creature who had just spoken, she said in the sharpest tones of contemptuous anger: "Greek to a child's nurse! I expect next he'll teach French to the pigs." The maid Ida lifted up her eyes from the book and fixed them on Miss Calthea.
Poor Kate had regarded these proceedings, at first, in perfect bewilderment. She had then turned red and pale by turns, and once or twice essayed to speak; but, as the true motives of this altered behaviour developed themselves, she retired a few paces, and looked calmly on without deigning a reply.
"You have no part in the conduct of this matter. You are simply a witness." Josef bowed low in meekness. Without deigning a reply to the old fellow, Sobieska spoke next in fairly good English to the Cockney. "What is your nation birthplace?" "England; Whitechapel, London," replied Carrick with natural taciturnity. "Where did you get that?" continued the Minister, pointing to the medal.
Jermin," he cried loftily, and not deigning to notice the respectful salutation of the person addressed, "Mr. Jermin, tack ship, and stand off from the land." Upon this, the men looked hard at him, anxious to see what sort of a looking "cove" he was. Upon inspection, he turned out to be an exceedingly minute "cove," with a viciously pugged nose, and a decidedly thin pair of legs.
Perhaps Becket made no answer at all, as not deigning to write to an excommunicated person, whose very commerce would contaminate him; and the bishop, trusting to this arrogance of his primate, might calumniate him the more freely. For if his excuse was rejected as false and frivolous, it would he treated as no answer.
The sullen hills were flanked with light, and the valleys chined with shadow, and all the sombrous moors between awoke in furrowed anger. But most of all the flinging fire leaped into the rocky mouth of the glen below me, where the horsemen passed in silence, scarcely deigning to look round.
The lords congratulated her on the great and glorious success of her arms under the command of the duke of Marlborough, without deigning to mention sir George Rooke, who had defeated the French navy at sea, and added the important fortress of Gibraltar to the British conquests.
But I felt so sharply the baselessness of what I was saying that I stopped of myself, without his deigning me an answer, and I then added "What one has lost at one time may be found again at another!" He fiercely rebuked me "Confess to me, sir, confess to me, how became you deprived of your shadow!" I was compelled again to lie.
As for Mr Farrell himself, so far from looking forward to the interview with foreboding, he seemed in an unusually amiable frame of mind as he took the head of the table on Sunday evening, actually deigning to question his guests as to the day's doings, and the impressions which they had received.
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