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The salutation, therefore, and the laugh, had both been uttered in derision. He wheeled, his face black with the passionate blood. His mouth yawed with anger. His voice had a moan of intensity. "What are 'e laughing at?" he said, with a mastering quietness.... "Eh?... Just tell me, please, what you're laughing at." He was crouching for the grip, his hands out like a gorilla's.
Tired of insults, he passed to menaces and derision, saying to Dubois that since he had now thrown off all disguise, they no longer were on terms to pardon each other, and then he assured Dubois that, sooner or later, he would do him all the injury possible, and gave him what he called good counsel.
Garland accepted the introduction with signs of abashment, but stated his business simply. "Doc, could you he'p me out with a coat like?" "Oh ... A coat, you say?" "Rags to my skin, sir. I 'clare you can see my meat...." The bearded one inspected himself downward with feeble cackles, hollow parodies of gay derision.
"We leave London so very shortly, that I trust you will not be exposed to the derision you so much dread," replied Mrs. Hamilton, soothingly, "and by next season I hope all floating rumours that your conduct must occasion may have entirely passed away.
She came into the drawing-room and with good-humored derision, smiled at him. "I knew you'd come and do it," she told him. "It isn't going to be so bad," he answered. "Moszkowski, Chaminade, quite a little of Chopin for that matter, will go pretty well on it." "Did you bring my songs?" she asked.
Truly, one would imagine that her vulgar sharpness would teach her that his object is to use her as a tool, and that having gained Mademoiselle's fortune, he will treat them with brutality and derision." But she did not seem to see possibly she fancied that having obtained him for a son-in-law, she would be bold and clever enough to outwit and control him.
As she grew to womanhood she had attempted more frequent baths. But the effort proved disastrous, arousing, first, Sarah's derision, and next, her wrath. Sarah had crystallized in the era of the weekly Saturday night bath, and any increase in this cleansing function was regarded by her as putting on airs and as an insinuation against her own cleanliness.
We may, forsooth, refuse, because we are free; we may object, and rebel, and oppose our lot; we may take our destiny out of the hands of our Creator and attempt to shape it for ourselves; we may deride and despise the humble, the lowly of heart, the patient, the mortified and the suffering; we may upbraid the Providence of God and its workings, and refuse to submit to the rule of the Creator; we may hold in derision and contempt the little band that is sweetly marching the way of the cross, preferring for ourselves the company of the multitude that knows not God—all this can we do, because we are free; but if such be our choice, and if we persevere in it, our portion is fixed, and we shall have at last only to say with the wicked: “Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us.
"Home!" the pale lips writhed in withering derision. "Yes, home, Molly," he spoke as one might to a much-loved and unreasonable sick child with infinite tenderness and compassion "your own warm home, with your sister. You would like to go to Madeleine, would not you?" She unclasped her hands and threw them out before her with a savage gesture of repulsion.
In five years Dmitri was assassinated, and his mutilated corpse was lying in the palace at the Kremlin, an object of insult and derision; and then, for Russia there came another chaos. For a brief period Vasili Shuiski, head of one of the princely families, reigned, while two more "false Dmitris" appeared, one from Sweden and the other from Poland.
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