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"What king," said the mystical charmer, and as he spoke he carelessly rested his hand on my shoulder, so that I trembled to feel that this dread son of Nature, Godless and soulless, who had been and, my heart whispered, who still could be my bane and mind-darkener, leaned upon me for support, as the spoilt younger-born on his brother, "what king," said this cynical mocker, with his beautiful boyish face, "what king in your civilized Europe has the sway of a chief of the East?
It was not exactly the way in which she had pictured her first trip into the world, but, with a cynical smile, it was as near the realization as her dreams ever were. Kate had not ridden more than a hundred miles on a train in her life, and her knowledge of cities was still gathered from books and magazines.
He rose and took her by the shoulders, bringing her round so that the light was full in her face. Slate-blue eyes. "Kitty, what would you say if I kissed you?" Inwardly he asked: "Now, what the devil made me say that?" The sinister and cynical idea leaped from its ambush. "Why, Cutty, I I don't believe I should mind. It's it's you!" Vile wretch that she was!
Sulla not only established his despotic power by unscrupulous violence, but in doing so called things by their right name with a certain cynical frankness, through which he has irreparably offended the great mass of the weakhearted who are more revolted at the name than at the thing, but through which, from the cool and dispassionate character of his crimes, he certainly appears to the moral judgment more revolting than the criminal acting from passion.
Lucia, who had been watching Pell's face every second, now offered him the bowl of water with her own hands, and drew closer to him. She picked up the towel that had fallen to the table, and folded it, then dampened it. Pell looked up and saw her for the first time. "Oh, so there you are, my dear!" was his cynical greeting. Lucia still stared at him.
It went up and down stairs, from cellar to garret, and in and out of all the rooms, like anybody, with a faint, cynical indifference in the glance of its cold gray eyes that gave no hint of its purposes or performances. In the chambers it chewed the sheets and pillow-cases on the beds, and in the dining-room, if it found nothing else, it would do its best to eat the table-cloth.
Demoralised by disappointment, and made cynical by toiling over interests for which they had, at best, but a forced regard, little remained in their breasts but a sore determination to make the best of an abiding discontent. In joining Lord Reckage's Committee, they found themselves again, as they believed, in a false position.
Selma isn't the sheltered woman sort the sort whose moral obligations are all looked after by the men of her family. The old-fashioned woman always belonged to some man or else was an outcast. This new style of woman looks at life as a man does." Jane listened with a somewhat cynical expression. No doubt, in theory, there was a new style of woman.
"I'm not ready to walk the ties when I go to Newcastle," he remarked, "and Nat ain't quite bankrupt yet. The Gaylords," continued Mr. Pardriff, who always took the cynical view of a man of the world, "have had some row with the Northeastern over lumber shipments. I understand they're goin' to buck 'em for a franchise in the next Legislature, just to make it lively.
"I give you welcome, maladi," he said, "I and my poor castle are all yours to command." He made a gallant figure there on his stone terrace. The girl's eyes shone a little, but they turned almost immediately to the other man at her side. "Beautiful, isn't it, Dick?" she said. He met her look, and she was conscious of a chill. She had never seen him look so aloof, so cynical.