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The truth is, it was the fault of the Intelligence Department that nearly wrecked us, and it was McNeill's prudence and our pluck that saved us, and yet these quill-drivers at home bah!" The soldier rose in hot indignation and strode from the room. "He's a wee thing roosed!" remarked Sutherland, with a good-humoured yet slightly cynical grin. "But guid-nicht to ye, ma man.
"As clown or grindstone? to make laugh, or sharpen your wits upon?" "Far be it from me to dictate. Whichever suits our character best. On the whole, I think the last would be the most appropriate; the first I can swear wouldn't!" "Pourquoi?" "O, a woman's reason, because!" "Because why? Am I cross?" "Not exactly." "Rough?" "As usual, like a May breeze." "Cynical?" "As Epicurus." "Irritable?"
As one of my chums said to me: "Wirz is the most even-tempered man I ever knew; he's always foaming mad." This was nearly the truth. I never saw Wirz when he was not angry; if not violently abusive, he was cynical and sardonic.
"Isn't the sea beautiful?" asked Tchelkache. "Not bad! Only one is afraid on it," replied Gavrilo, rowing evenly and strongly. The sea could scarcely be heard; it dripped from the long oars and still shone with its warm, blue phosphorescent lights. "Afraid? Simpleton!" growled Tchelkache. He, the cynical robber, loved the sea.
Rusk, looking, with her resolute little face, quietly on the portrait. 'He must be a very handsome man, Mrs. Rusk. Don't you think so? I continued. 'He was, my dear yes; but it is forty years since that was painted the date is there in the corner, in the shadow that comes from his foot, and forty years, I can tell you, makes a change in most of us; and Mrs. Rusk laughed, in cynical good-humour.
It is hardly too much to say, that Lord Byron could exhibit only one man and only one woman, a man, proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection: a woman all softness and gentleness, loving to caress and to be caressed, but capable of being transformed by passion into a tigress.
Thanks to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Autos-da-fé, the whole people have acquired a character which assuredly they do not deserve. The blind bigotry and cynical cruelty of Philip II. and his lunatic successors have been identified with the races over which, unfortunately for Spain, they ruled for so many years.
Dunn was awake, and was gazing at her curiously. "I was reckoning it was the only square thing for Low to stop this promiscuous picnicking here and marry you out and out." "Marry me!" said Teresa in a voice that, with all her efforts, she could not make cynical. "Yes," he repeated, "after I've married Nellie; tote you down to San Angeles, and there take my name like a man, and give it to you.
"He said to me once that he wasn't afraid of the Street any more. I told him this morning that I didn't want to begin this if it was going to incommode him." "What did he say?" "He was just going out. He looked at me a moment with that speculative sort of look-no, it isn't cynical, as you say; I know it so well and then said: 'Oh, go ahead. I guess it will be all right.
To be sure, he was paying for it now, not only in anxiety about money, but in shame, and furtiveness, and the corroding consciousness of being a liar, and in the complete shipwreck of every purpose and ambition that a young man ought to have. "And that day, in the field, I called it love!" He would have been amused at the cynical memory, if he had not been so bitter. "Love? Rot!
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