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Vane; and escaped through the type-setting room and down an outside stairway in the rear when that gentleman called. It gave an ironical turn to the incident that Mr. Pardriff was at the moment engaged in a "Welcome Home" paragraph meant to be propitiatory. Austen cared very little for lionizing.
I should like to have your opinion on that." It was, of course, ironical yet there was something in those words something! "I think it's you, sir, who ought to give me yours." "My dear Lennan my experience is a mere nothing!" That was meant for unkindness to her! He would not answer. If only Stormer would go away! The music had stopped. They would be sitting out somewhere, talking!
All these domestic matters seemed more significant than ever when he thought of youthful innocence sleeping upstairs in the spare-room bed. His had been a selfish life hitherto, he feared. These puppies were just what he needed to take him out of himself. Busy with these thoughts, he did not notice the ironical whistling coming from the pond. He tasted the night air with cheerful satisfaction.
"White stockings humph!" he said. Somehow those white stockings suggested the ironical comment of the world upon his proposed mesalliance; then he laughed good-humouredly. "Taste is all a matter of habit, anyhow," said he to himself. "My own sister wouldn't have had any better taste if she hadn't been taught. And what am I?
The drawing was an ironical treatment of the evil effects Burke foretold of the "Regicide Peace," and takes for granted the landing of the French, the burning of St. James's Palace and other disasters. According to the artist, the invaders have reached the vicinity of the great clubs, and are wreaking vengeance on that special Tory club White's while Brooks's over the way is a scene of rejoicing.
For twenty-five years it had been known that he had been trying for a goal. At last he had won it and then John Bull!... Ya-as.... American horse American owner American jockey! Sure.... Brother Jonathon turned in his lips. He did not blame John Bull; he was not angry or resentful. But he was determined and above all ironical.
He had laughed with the rest, but he could not imagine his guide, with the stern, grave eyebrows, writhen features and earnest, ironical tone, covering as even he could detect the deepest feeling, enjoying such broad sallies as tickled the slow merriment of village clowns and forest deer-stealers. All stood for a moment while the Paternoster was repeated.
"In the name of ! who is the miscreant that has perpetrated this joke?" No one could reply for laughing. Then ironical cheers burst forth from all sides. "Brave Boucheseiche! That's a kind of game one doesn't often get hold of !" "We never shall see any more of that kind!" "Let us carry Boucheseiche in triumph!" And so they went on, marching around the tree.
He had cherished the thought of still visiting his mistress, but he found there an unlooked-for being, a new creature, who was unmistakably determined, in spite of her cunning charm, and she spoke to him in stupefying, ironical language. "You would have me go mad, Marianne?" "Why! what an idea! The phrase is decidedly romantic.
He lit his study lamp and meditated beside it until a sound of water boiling called him to his tea-making. He returned to his desk stirring the lemon in his glass of tea. He would write the plain common sense of this Irish situation. He would put things so plainly that this squabbling folly would have to cease. It should be done austerely, with a sort of ironical directness.
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