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"That is to say," cried Harry, who was surprised and a little nettled to hear what he called the heads of a sermon from a red-skin, "that you, being a man, are very weak, and very foolish, and wicked, and that Manito is very good and patient to let you live?" "Good," said the Indian calmly; "that is what I mean."
His shyness had left him, and with it his tendency to stammer. Boy felt herself snubbed, and was nettled accordingly. "I'm going home by the wood," she said. "I'll come with you," said the artist. The two moved away down the hill together toward the wood that thrust like a spear into the heart of the Paddock Close. Silver watched them with steady eyes. As usual he had been left.
Edward, and the rest of the gentlemen all round poor dear old Bob, rather bullying like for my blood; till Bob couldn't help being nettled, and cried out, 'Gentlemen, I hold him in my power, and I'm silent so long as there's a chance of my getting him to behave like a man with human feelings. If they'd gone at him then, I don't think I could have let him stand alone: an opinion's one thing, but blood's another, and I'm distantly related to Bob; and a man who's always thinking of the value of his place, he ain't worth it.
He went on to make some roundabout inquiries as to who the persons were to whose assistance I had gone, but I told him plainly that I did not desire to discuss the subject. Becoming nettled at this, he said: "Ho! ho! and so you do not trust me, Monsieur Broussel!
At the same time there was nothing like ill-will on Goethe's part. He recognized Schiller's talent, praised 'The Gods of Greece' and was half pleased with the review of 'Egmont', which might well have nettled a less Olympian temper. In the fall of 1788 'The Defection of the Netherlands' was published and favorably received.
If he had never looked for her, never felt the nettled sense of being foiled, or if he had found her at once, he would never have desired her so fiercely. Now, for the first time in his life impassioned, he felt something mysterious and unwelcome to him begin to mingle with his desire. Above all, life without her meant dullness, lack of vitality, the swift onset of middle-age.
He was very much nettled at this answer: But said, he must bear his affronts if I would have it so.
"I suppose you will stay here in the old place, unless you think of marrying, and it's high time you did," put in Mrs. Jane, much nettled at her brother's last hit. "No, thank you. Come and have a cigar, Mac," said Dr. Alec, abruptly. "Don't marry; women enough in the family already," muttered Uncle Mac; and then the gentlemen hastily fled.
"You are all very well theoretically, but try it and see. Look, for example, at the murder of the money lender, a case in point. There was a desperate villain who in broad daylight stopped at nothing, and yet his hand shook, did it not? and he could not finish, and left all the spoil behind him. The deed evidently robbed him of his presence of mind." This language nettled Raskolnikoff.
It nettled him to think that he had failed to take advantage of his opportunities while this shrewd, capable old man was alive and in a position to set him on the right path to prosperity. He should have had the sense to look forward to this very day. For thirty years he had gone on believing that he knew so much more than Mr. Thorpe that Mr.
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