He fled at once, and the minute it was well, " Up with the bonnets of bonnie Dundee, " she slipped away to return no more till the young gentleman departed in high dudgeon.
They cared so little for plain Fact, these people, and were in that advanced state of degeneracy on the subject, that instead of being impressed by the speaker's strong common sense, they took it in extraordinary dudgeon.
Charlie was not there, for when he found that Rose stood firm, and had moreover engaged Mac as a permanency, he would not go at all and retired in high dudgeon to console himself with more dangerous pastimes.