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The only answer Schilsky gave was a muttered request to cease making an idiot of himself. This was going rather too far; but no one protested, except Ford, the pianist, who said in English: "Speesch? Call that a speesch?" Furst, inclined in the first moment of rebuff to be touchy, allowed his natural goodness of heart to prevail.
And if we then lay out four or five tables with plates full of refreshments, won't we save trouble and all have a jolly time as well?" "The proposal I've made." Pao-ch'ai pursued smilingly; "is prompted entirely by my sincere feelings for you; so whatever you do don't be touchy and imagine that I look down upon you; for in that case we two will have been good friends all in vain.
Maldon in her ignorance could not appreciate the truth, but she could appreciate its wantonness. She was wounded silly, touchy old thing! She was wounded, and she hid the wound. Rachel flushed with ire against the boor. "By the way," Mrs. Maldon remarked in a light, indifferent tone, just as though the glory of the moment had not been suddenly rent and shrivelled.
Ward asked her, after he had himself attended to the bridling since Rattler was touchy about the head. "Of course, he isn't bad, when you know him; but he's liable to be pretty snuffy after running out so long. And he never had a woman on him. You better let me ride him." "Don't be silly. You couldn't even mount him, with that game leg.
"Maupertuis has not easygoing springs," the poet wrote to his niece; "he takes my dimensions sternly with his quadrant. It is said that a little envy enters into his calculations." Already Voltaire's touchy vanity was shying at the rivals he encountered in the king's favor.
I was naturally touchy, or it would not have vexed me so much. Perhaps, too, I was a little bit spoiled by my mother and sister, and some other ladies of my acquaintance;—and yet I was by no means a fop—of that I am fully convinced, whether you are or not. Our party, on the 5th of November, passed off very well, in spite of Mrs. Graham’s refusal to grace it with her presence.
Some may ask me here, 'How comes it to pass, since she is so nice and touchy a lady, that so many clowns court and carry her, and so many fools keep her so long? My answer is, that those clowns have yet good breeding enough to treat her civilly; he must be a fool indeed that will give way to have his credit injured, and sit still and be quiet-that will not bustle and use his utmost industry to vindicate his own reputation, and preserve his credit.
I have said above that, though in no sense touchy, he was a very dangerous person to take a liberty with; he adopted to the full the morality of his time about duelling, though he disapproved of it; he was in all respects a man of the world, yet without guile.
Only don't mention the names of any diseases in English or Latin before me next time. I dreamed about cutis oenea half the night after I came to see you. Dr. Benjamin took my apology very pleasantly. He did not want to be touchy about it, he said, but he had his way to make in the world, and found it a little hard at first, as most young men did.
If national vanity and pride were not so touchy about recent occurrences, still passionately debated, numerous lessons might be drawn from our last wars. Who can speak impartially of Waterloo, or Waterloo so much discussed and with such heat, without being ashamed? Had Waterloo been won, it would not have profited us. Napoleon attempted the impossible, which is beyond even genius.
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