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Updated: June 16, 2025
Such a rebuff from a tradesman would have been more than sufficient to call for a sharp retort at any other time, but now it excited the strangest suspicions.
Such a public rebuff was a new and strange experience. With set teeth and lips compressed he next resolved to go to the very hotel where he had committed his crime, and from that starting-point fight his way up. He found the public room more than usually well filled with loungers, and could not help discovering, as he entered, that he was the subject of their loud and unsavory conversation.
Would it be taking a liberty to ask what science it treats of?" The philosopher kept his eyes lowered as he replied: "The subject of this book is beyond the comprehension of ladies." This rebuff excited more than ever the curiosity of the young Arabian woman. She put out the prettiest little foot that had ever left its fleeting imprint on the shifting sands of the desert.
But he was greatly relieved when the magistrate, anticipating his demand, told him that he did not receive his rents until October, and that he would pay him then. At the house of an old lady of seventy, a paralytic, the rebuff was of a different kind.
Lucien answered vehemently. He was dismayed by this first rebuff. "You are making a mistake," said Etienne. "You won't find any one that will take their paper," said Barbet. "Your book is their last stake, sir. The printer will not trust them; they are obliged to leave the copies in pawn with him.
Clarissa asked timidly, anticipating a rebuff. "No; that is the most confounded part of the business. My liabilities only amount to a few pitiful hundreds. When I sold Arden and I did not do that till I was obliged, you may believe the bulk of the purchase-money went to the mortgagees.
"Nobody is talking about anything except the fall in prices just now," she persisted. "I suppose it affects you, too?" The man, who seemed to accept this as a rebuff, looked at her rather curiously, and then laughed. "It must be admitted that it does. In fact, I've been acquiring parsimonious habits and worrying myself about expenses lately.
As regards more particularly the Dreyfus business, the French, with a sensitiveness that can be understood, have all along deprecated anything in the way of foreign interference, and the English Pressman of inquiring mind on the subject has more than once met with a rebuff from those in a position to give information.
She knew it was best to approach the attendant first. This she did, and, to the surprise of other lady-passengers, received no rebuff. Her advance was not, however, rapid. Mackenzie had had her instructions. When she found that Mrs. Townley knew Francis Armour and his people, she thawed a little more, and then, very hesitatingly, she introduced her to the Indian wife. Mrs.
It was a little volcano, or better, a little powder magazine hidden away somewhere in the heart. The imp Pride had its head out looking for a caress, when it received a rebuff instead. Hastily disappearing within, it spat fire right and left, and the explosion followed, proportionate in energy and destructive power to the quantity of pent-up self-love that served as a charge.
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