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Better than the eager, verbose man is he who stands on the shore cynically watching a landsman in a boat without proffering advice as to how the vessel should be navigated, who only holds out a cold and steady hand after the catastrophe has happened, or, if no catastrophe supervenes, is content to walk away in that silent wonder which the care of Providence for the improvident must ever evoke.
He had teased her when she was a very little girl, laughing at her naïve honesty, throwing doubts on her independence, cynically ridiculing her loyalty. Her mother and father being dead she had no protection. She was defenceless. I don't think that he in any way perverted her innocence. The house was garish, over-scented and over-lighted.
"And you live among all these lovely things!" observed Olivia, almost in a tone of awe. "Oh, if only Aunt Madge could see these flowers!" She spoke impulsively without considering her words, and blushed a little when she saw Mr. Gaythorne lift his eyebrows cynically. "I was only thinking of my aunt, Mrs. Broderick," she said, apologetically.
For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or to put the thing less cynically we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice. Philip, at all events, lived more graciously in Italian, the very phrases of which entice one to be happy and kind.
"Never mind, dearest," she said, "it may not be as bad as you think things never are; and we 've got the house and the farm, and the bonds; and, whatever happens, we 've got each other." "Yes; you 've got each other," said the old man cynically, "and that's all ye will have, if things goes this way.
They're quite enough to keep it going by themselves when they're here. But I shall have to write and tell them not to come this time." "Yes," said Edwin. "But I keep asking you what then?" "And I keep saying I don't know." "You must have some plans?" "I haven't." She put her lips together, and dimpled her chin, and again cynically smiled. At any rate she had not resented his inquisition.
Gilder, however, was not disposed to be sympathetic as to a matter so flagrantly opposed to his interests. "A court of justice has decreed her guilty," he asserted once again, in his ponderous manner. His emphasis indicated that there the affair ended. Demarest smiled cynically as he strode to and fro. "Nowadays," he shot out, "we don't call them courts of justice: we call them courts of law."
Legal machinery was set in motion, meeting followed meeting, until Harrington cynically showed his hand and Quarrier smiled his rare smile; and the fight against Inter-County was on in the open, preceded by a furious clamour of charge and counter-charge in the columns of the daily press.
His face grew cynically amused again. "Oh, certainly! I'd roost on this side-hill for a month, if a lady told me to," he sneered, speaking aloud as he frequently did in the solitude of the range land.
He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes. By day and by night he moved among distorted images of the outer world.
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