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"Well," said the girl, "I had to wear this new dress, you see. And when you wear a new dress they always say things, don't you know? Danny Davis hollered 'stuck up' once, but I punched him." "Good for you," said Henry Burns, laughing. "I'd like to have seen you that a new dress?" "Course it is," she answered, with a touch of half-offended pride. "Can't you see it is?"
And, besides, there are two or three hours of every day that I must attend to other duties." "Well, if you can't I suppose you can't," said the tailor, in a disappointed, half-offended tone, and turned away from the counter and walked back to his desk, from which he called out to his salesman, after he had stood there for about a minute
"When the time shall come for a decision," returned the half-pleased and yet half-offended subject of his allusion, "it may be necessary to call upon very different counsellors for advice. I hear the step of my uncle. Captain Ludlow, I leave it to your discretion to meet him, or not." The heavy footstep was approaching through the outer rooms of the pavilion.
Did he really come all this distance, across mountain, and valley, rivers and lakes, to torment his fellow creatures, and do so wicked a thing?" This question at once appeased the growing ire of the half-offended Indian beauty. It completely got the better of the prejudices of education, and turned all her thoughts to a gentler and more feminine channel.
"Certainly I will, with pleasure," said she, rising, "if you will let me get a glass of water, and place them in the parlour, where we can all enjoy them." "I did not cut my flowers, and bring them here for the benefit of the whole household," said Ben, in a half-offended tone. "If you won't wear them, Miss Gertrude, I will offer them to somebody that will."
When the girls were left to themselves, Polly took up the picture and looked at it, then turned it over and read, "God is good to all: He loves both boys and girls." At this point Tiny interrupted her by laying her hand on her arm, and saying eagerly: "Are you quite sure that is what it says?" "Why, don't you think I can read?" said Polly, in a half-offended tone.
"Don't you fear, Paul, I I'm all right!" The half-offended idiotic expression of the man's face was intensely ludicrous, but Paul could not see the ludicrous at that time. He only saw his usually sedate, manly, generous friend reduced to a state of imbecility. "Come, now, Master Trench," he said persuasively, taking hold of the case-bottle, "let me put it away."
Grant could not cast out the unpleasant feeling. He had done a thing so clearly wrong, that no attempt at self-justification gave his mind its former calmness. "The ring is solid gold?" said the man, when he came for it. "That was the contract," replied Mr. Grant, with a half-offended air, at the intimation conveyed in the tone of voice, that all might not be as agreed upon.
People will begin to think, after awhile, that he's some reformed drunkard, and is afraid to taste a drop of any kind of liquor." "How can you talk so, George?" Clara said, with a half-offended air. "So it will appear, Clara; and you can't help it, unless you laugh him out of his folly." "I don't wish to say anything to him about it." "You're afraid." "No, I am not, George." "Yes, you are."
"Oh, daddy, daddy, look here!" exclaimed Tiny; "here's a book with reading!" "She's just sat and looked at them letters, as she calls 'em, ever since you've been gone," said Dame Peters, in a half-offended tone; for her picture was not valued as much as it ought to be, she thought. "Oh, she's a rum 'un," said Coomber. "Well, now, are you ready, little 'un?" he asked.
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