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I can't now estimate how near we came to fisticuffs. It ended with my saying, after a pungent reminder of benefits conferred and remembered, that I didn't want to stay another hour in his house. I went upstairs, in a state of puerile fury, to pack and go off to the Railway Hotel, while he, with ironical civility, telephoned for a cab.
Henry, in his wrath, sequestrated the estates of the archbishopric; the incumbents of his benefices were expelled; all his relatives and dependents were banished, some four hundred people; men, women, and children. The bishops sent him ironical letters, and hoped his fasts would benefit his soul. The quarrel now was of great interest to all Europe.
"When I met Madame de Bergenheim again, I found her completely changed toward me; an icy gravity, an impassible calm, an ironical and disdainful haughtiness had taken the place of the delicious abandon of her former bearing.
He had evidently hurried in first in order to secure that seat. From his pocket he produced a somewhat soiled paper, which he threw with exaggerated carelessness across the table. His manner was not entirely free from a suggestion of patronage. "What have we here?" inquired the first comer, who had not hitherto opened his lips, with a deep interest which might possibly have been ironical.
Finally he removed his glasses and turned round. "What did you come here to Santa Scolastica for?" said he. "I was a great sinner," Benedetto answered, "God called me to withdraw from the world, and I withdrew from It." The Abbot was silent for a moment, his gaze fixed upon the young man, and then he said with ironical gentleness: "No, my friend!"
I have observed that the ladies who wish to be men, are usually those who have not sufficient strength of mind to be women. Olivia proceeds in an ironical strain to envy, as "the happiest of their sex, those who submit to be swathed by custom." These persons she stigmatizes with the epithet of tideless-blooded.
One of the most ironical touches of the whole queer jumble of events, Eliot reflected, had been the jolly, friendly way in which, the instant Tony caught sight of him, he had jumped up from the table to greet him, joyfully inquiring for all the friends he had made at Silverquay and, in particular, for Ann. Eliot had been conscious of a curious intermingling of feeling.
But I saw an ironical gayety in his eyes, such a delight in his revenge, and he made fun of me so jovially that I did not hesitate any longer. I gave him my hand, and said, "Good night. You know the old saying: A victory without peril is a triumph without glory, and upon my word, the victory is worth the danger." And with a firm step I went into Francesca's room.
She left the room with a majestic step, escorted by her dog and satisfied with herself, bestowing an ironical curtsey on the young girl, which the latter did not think it necessary to return. "How hateful your aunt is!" exclaimed Mademoiselle de Bergenheim to her sister-in-law, when they were alone.
This novel is ironical, a sort of prose mock-heroic, and is one of the strongest, though certainly the least pleasing, of Fielding's writings. Tobias Smollett was an inferior Fielding with a difference. He was a Scotch ship-surgeon, and had spent some time in the West Indies.
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