The toast is a lady-not Miss Denville, since it offends Colonel Mellersh.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
My bitterness only offends you, it will be best that I should be silent.
"Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel"
E. Werner
'You will not answer me; my frankness offends you.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens