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To qualify, however, the offensiveness of the stench, he quaffed in public a goblet of wine, and with equal vanity and insolence distributed a large quantity of it among his troops. On his observing a stone with an inscription upon it to the memory of Otho, he said, "It was a mausoleum good enough for such a prince."
The lad tried to laugh them off and to ignore the offensiveness of the tone, but he felt them deeply, and confided to Frank to whom he had specially taken that he could not stand it much longer. "I never used a pistol in my life until you advised me the other day to take some lessons from Woodall, and of course he would put a bullet through my head; but I can't help that.
Pierce at her house, and am mightily pleased with the discretion of her during the simplicity and offensiveness of my wife's discourse this afternoon. I perceive by the new face at Mrs. Pierces door that our Mary is gone from her.
And then the Countess, with what I am compelled to term a singular offensiveness, not to say insolence, of manner, slams the door in my face, leaving me to deal with the cat as I best can! My friend, it became intolerable. I sent a message begging the Countess to do me the favour of changing her apartment. "She declined point-blank.
Mine was an attitude of studied offensiveness. I did want to hurt her feelings. But hers, it seemed to me, was no pose. She really had had and, I suppose, still retained a genuine horror of me. The struggle was unequal. 'You were very kind, she went on, 'sometimes when you happened to think of it. Considered as the best she could find to say of me, it was not an eulogy.
The coarseness of his language, the offensiveness of his imagery, have been greatly exaggerated. It is now a good many years since I heard him lecture in a northern town on the Bible to an audience almost wholly composed of artisans. He was bitter and aggressive, but the treatment he was then experiencing accounted for this.
What made the situation hopeless was the circumstance that the civilians accepted it with contemptible humility. It was almost pathetic to observe how people, just on the border-line, received with humble thankfulness such crumbs of recognition as were occasionally thrown to them. Snobbery increases in offensiveness when it is transplanted. Living was exceedingly cheap.
There was something Napoleonic about his words which placed them wholly beyond the sphere of offensiveness. Slowly she turned her head and looked him in the eyes. He took his arm abruptly away from her. "Heavens!" he said. "How miserable you look! Are you very miserable?" "I'm not very happy," she said. "But you always smile," he said, "even when you're crying. Ah, that's better!
The issues at stake seemed to make the question frivolous to offensiveness. He felt that any approach to tenderness when Ellen was in her present mood would invoke an indignation for which he could scarcely blame her, that he must try to meet her on equal fighting-ground.
When I say to you that the sight of that ring upon your finger compromises my honor, that it is an insult to me, you comprehend; is it not so?" "Quite so," Dirke replied, with carefully studied offensiveness. "Then, Monsieur, it will perhaps be possible at another time to correct the inequality in point of arms to which you have called my attention." The challenge was admirably delivered.
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