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It was his thought that Miss Corson, in her efforts to avoid an anticlimax of conventional procedure, was making a rather too severe test of him in forcing him to endure the unusual. He did manage to say, "Good morning!" and smiled at them in a deprecatory way. Coventry Daunt amiably responded as a spokesman for the group; but he had waited deferentially for his elders to make some response.
He also had the pleasure of depositing in the safety vault a goodly number of bonds for his beloved mother, enough to insure a comfortable income to her and the certainty that her financial worries were over forever. "This is what I call an anticlimax," said Edwin to Kent the next morning as they lounged on the Pont Carrousel.
Sheldon's craftsmanship is justified, and there is no more to be said. M. Brieux experienced some difficulty in bringing his early play, Blanchette, to a satisfactory close. The third act which he originally wrote was found unendurably cynical; a more agreeable third act was condemned as an anticlimax; and for some time the play was presented with no third act at all.
It seemed to him that speech would be an anticlimax. He paid the cab, and turned to follow her. She passed inside and upstairs without a word. In her little sitting-room she turned on the electric light and looked around half fearfully. "Please search everywhere," she said. "I am going through the other rooms. I shall not let you go till I am quite sure."
"Some Western people were telling me," said one of the matrons, "that he wants to be the next lieutenant-governor. They say he is very ambitious and very selfish." "Any man is selfish," protested one who for years had attempted to marry Helen, "who wants to keep Helen to himself. But that he should wish to be a lieutenant-governor, too, is rather an anticlimax. It makes one lose sympathy."
Charles followed him quickly, and stood still watching him make his way towards the barrier. He saw him press through, give up his ticket, and disappear without so much as a backward glance. There was something so ridiculous in this anticlimax to his poignant fears that the young man was for the moment actually exasperated. But his face and linen were wet with perspiration.
Beneath Melmoth's omnipotence lurked this tragical anticlimax of so many a passion, and now the inanity of human nature was revealed to his successor, to whom infinite power brought Nothingness as a dowry.
Its sickening anticlimax to poor Queen Louise was so exactly in keeping with the smaller disappointments which assail her more humble sister women in every walk of life that it takes on the air of a heart tragedy. I tried to imagine the feelings of the Queen when she journeyed to Memel to hold her famous interview with Napoleon.
Realising, perhaps, that her tirades were something of an anticlimax, Mrs. Hoopington broke suddenly into some rather necessary tears and marched out of the room, leaving behind her a silence almost as terrible as the turmoil which had preceded it. "What shall I do with THAT?" asked Vladimir at last. "Bury it," said Norah. "Just plain burial?" said Vladimir, rather relieved.
"It won't be for long, of course," I said uncertainly, "just till the steamer comes and we'll give them lots to eat but I suppose they think they will soon be just a lot more skeletons " And here I was threatened with a moist anticlimax to my late Amazonian mood. Why should the frequent and natural phenomena of tears produce such panic in the male breast?
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