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The Chamber of justice felt the derisiveness of the Regent's permission, and ceased to transact business. It thought to embarrass the Regent thus, but 'twould have been at its own expense. This lasted only a day or two.
The Chamber of justice felt the derisiveness of the Regent's permission, and ceased to transact business. It thought to embarrass the Regent thus, but 'twould have been at its own expense. This lasted only a day or two.
The Chamber of justice felt the derisiveness of the Regent's permission, and ceased to transact business. It thought to embarrass the Regent thus, but 'twould have been at its own expense. This lasted only a day or two.
Her voice sounded incredibly old, full of faint derisiveness and satire, but absolutely non-complaining. "Amy White's mother would look awfully funny in a gown like Mamma's," said Adelaide. "I suppose that is why she plays dominoes with Amy," said Maida in her old voice. "Oh, don't talk any more, Maida, I want to go to sleep," said Adelaide pettishly, but she was not in the least sleepy.
'Augh, not at all it isn't Italian, but English, I'm thinking of a pilla, Puddock, you know the black rascal. 'Oh ho ho! laughed poor little Puddock, with a most gratified derisiveness, for he cherished in secret a great admiration for Devereux. And so they talked stage-talk.
Sometimes Erskine's treatment of witnesses was very jocular, and sometimes very unfair; but his jocoseness was usually so distinct from mere flippant derisiveness, and his unfairness was redeemed by such delicacy of wit and courtesy of manner, that his most malicious jeux d'esprit seldom raised the anger of the witnesses at whom they were aimed.
"Let not mistaken generosity get the better of prudence, my brother," he said, with derisiveness in his tone. "You know well that the penalty of hiding and harbouring a heretic is little short of that of heresy itself. Have a care you do not lose all just for the caprice of the moment, which in time to come you will have leisure bitterly to repent." The prior, too, was eying him sternly.
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