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Cross was by this time with his chest on deck; the other two impressed men soon followed, and the disconsolate trio passed down the ship's side in moody silence, unmoved alike by the commiserating looks of their late shipmates or the jocular and more than half-ironical congratulations of the man-o'-war's men in the boat upon their entry into so promising a service as that of the British navy.
Still, the eyes of all were turned towards the table where a man, who differed widely in appearance from most of them, dealt out the cards. He wore city clothes, and a white shirt with a fine diamond in the front of it, while there was a keen intentness behind the half-ironical smile in his somewhat colorless face.
There was not a single memory in which anger played a part; not one reconciliation, because there had never been a rupture; nor one heart-to-heart confidence, not even when Jolly's mother died. Nothing but half-ironical affection. He had been too afraid of committing himself in any direction, for fear of losing his liberty, or interfering with that of his boy.
The saying repeated a thousand times, that he was before his regency a good-natured, mild man, but when regent a bloodthirsty tyrant, carries in it its own refutation; if he as regent displayed the reverse of his earlier gentleness, it must rather be said that he punished with the same careless nonchalance with which he pardoned. This half-ironical frivolity pervades his whole political action.
That light, half-ironical manner he had assumed brought back to her so vividly the Max Errington of the early days of their acquaintance that it recalled, too, a measure of the odd attraction he had held for her in that far-away time.
An introductory poem, of graceful but half-ironical lamentation over the passing of youth, seems placed at the head of the little collection in studious depreciation of its importance. Had it not been for the necessity of publishing the official odes, it is probable enough that Horace would have left these few later lyrics ungathered.
She would not let him get angry, and he could say nothing against the half-ironical petting with which she soothed his mortification.
Some soldiers in the darkness, watching the string of lanterns, gave a half-ironical 'Hurrah. One by one, as the tracks bifurcated, George dispatched his men, with renewed insistent advice, and at last he and his horse were alone on the Downs. His clothes were exceedingly heavy with all the moisture they had imbibed.
He offended her taste, her pride, her dignity, in a hundred ways, she discovered. At the same time it was she who was always on the defensive protecting her dreams, her acts, her opinions, against the constant fire of his half-ironical questions, which seemed to leave her no time at all to carry the war into the enemy's country.
The gaze of the two men plunged into each other's eyes like flashes of lightning, but that was all. "I am charmed," said the Colonel, a half-ironical smile under his mustache. "Your name is not unfamiliar to me." "No?" said Maurice, with studied politeness. "No. It is connected with an exploit. Was it not you who faced the students this afternoon and rescued her Highness's dog?"
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