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'Get off!' cried Sam,
indignant
at this process, and vainly endeavouring to extricate himself from the grasp of his enthusiastic acquaintance.
'Sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, somewhat
indignant
at the very sudden manner in which Mr. Peter Magnus had conjugated himself into the imperative mood, 'I decline answering that question.''You decline it, Sir?' said Mr. Magnus.
Mr. Muzzle opened one half of the carriage gate, to admit the sedan, the captured ones, and the specials; and immediately slammed it in the faces of the mob, who,
indignant
at being excluded, and anxious to see what followed, relieved their feelings by kicking at the gate and ringing the bell, for an hour or two afterwards.
Because,' added Mr. Pickwick, as he saw that Mr. Nupkins was about to offer a very
indignant
interruption, 'because if he be, I know that person to be a--''Hush, hush,' said Mr. Nupkins, closing the door.
At a little distance, stood Mr. Tupman with
indignant
countenance, carefully held back by his two younger friends; at the farther end of the room were Mr. Nupkins, Mrs. Nupkins, and Miss Nupkins, gloomily grand and savagely vexed.
Now, Gabriel had been looking forward to reaching the dark lane, because it was, generally speaking, a nice, gloomy, mournful place, into which the townspeople did not much care to go, except in broad daylight, and when the sun was shining; consequently, he was not a little
indignant
to hear a young urchin roaring out some jolly song about a merry Christmas, in this very sanctuary which had been called Coffin Lane ever since the days of the old abbey, and the time of the shaven-headed monks.
Mr. Pickwick was excited and
indignant.
Any further observations from the
indignant
old gentleman were cut short by the announcement of the song, which Mr. Anthony Humm gave out two lines at a time, for the information of such of his hearers as were unacquainted with the legend.
The judge had no sooner taken his seat, than the officer on the floor of the court called out 'Silence!' in a commanding tone, upon which another officer in the gallery cried 'Silence!' in an angry manner, whereupon three or four more ushers shouted 'Silence!' in a voice of
indignant
remonstrance.
Those facts and circumstances, gentlemen, you shall hear detailed by me, and proved by the unimpeachable female whom I will place in that box before you.'Here, Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz, with a tremendous emphasis on the word 'box,' smote his table with a mighty sound, and glanced at Dodson and Fogg, who nodded admiration of the Serjeant, and
indignant
defiance of the defendant.
This was just Mr. Dowler's opinion, as he sat before the fire, and felt honestly
indignant
with all the inhuman people at the party who were keeping him up.
And breaking from the shrieking landlady, and from Mr. Pickwick, the
indignant
husband seized a small supper-knife, and tore into the street.
Mr. John Smauker looked deeply
indignant
at any parallel being drawn between himself and the deceased gentleman in question; but, as Sam's face was in the most immovable state of calmness, he thought better of it, and looked affable again.
'You'll tell him,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that I am highly excited, highly displeased, and naturally indignant, at the very extraordinary course he has thought proper to pursue.''I will, Sir,' replied Sam.
'Are you a Quaker?' said Sam.'I'll let you know I am, before I've done with you,' replied the
indignant
officer.
That's the Fair, that is.''My friend,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'you don't really mean to say that human beings live down in those wretched dungeons?''Don't I?' replied Mr. Roker, with
indignant
astonishment; 'why shouldn't I?''Live!--live down there!' exclaimed Mr. Pickwick.
His forehead was narrow, his face wide, his head large, and his nose all on one side, as if Nature,
indignant
with the propensities she observed in him in his birth, had given it an angry tweak which it had never recovered.
'Wot a old image it is!' exclaimed Sam,
indignant
at this loss of time.
Thereupon the ladies cast
indignant
glances at Mr. Raddle.
'I thought you did, Sir,' replied the old gentleman, with
indignant
emphasis.
The old gentleman methodically indorsed the address on the back of the letter; and then, placing it in the desk, which he locked, said, as he got off the stool and put the bunch of keys in his pocket--'I suppose there is nothing else which need detain us, Mr. Pickwick?''Nothing else, my dear Sir!' observed that warm-hearted person in
indignant
amazement.
This gentleman was shown into the room originally assigned to the patriotic Mr. Pott; and the waiter remarked, in dumb astonishment at the singular coincidence, that he had no sooner lighted the candles than the gentleman, diving into his hat, drew forth a newspaper, and began to read it with the very same expression of
indignant
scorn, which, upon the majestic features of Pott, had paralysed his energies an hour before.
The
indignant
Independent did not wait to hear the end of this personal denunciation; for, catching up his carpet-bag, which was well stuffed with movables, he swung it in the air as Pott turned away, and, letting it fall with a circular sweep on his head, just at that particular angle of the bag where a good thick hairbrush happened to be packed, caused a sharp crash to be heard throughout the kitchen, and brought him at once to the ground.
So saying, he put his umbrella under his arm, drew off his right glove, and extended the hand of reconciliation to that most
indignant
gentleman; who, thereupon, thrust his hands beneath his coat tails, and eyed the attorney with looks of scornful amazement.
The whole family perceived it, and Mrs. Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table
indignant
against all selfish parents.
She paused over it for some time with
indignant
astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.
To attach myself to your sister, therefore, was not a thing to be thought of;--and with a meanness, selfishness, cruelty--which no indignant, no contemptuous look, even of yours, Miss Dashwood, can ever reprobate too much--I was acting in this manner, trying to engage her regard, without a thought of returning it.--But
When Kate came out, the little Maharaj Kunwar clinging to her hand, her face was white and drawn, and her eyes full of
indignant
tears.
He refused to quit the court-yard, though Tarvin argued with him, first behind the saddle, and then between the
indignant
ears.
Sitabhai called her back for an instant, and, moved by some royal caprice, would have caressed her, but she fled indignant, and was careful never again to venture into that wing of the palace.
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