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The smile in Hellbeam's eyes was no less ironical than the agent's. "When I was working like a swine." "These lumber-jacks. They knew all that in Standing's mind is?" "No. But I learned it all." "How?" The demand was instant, and a surge of force lay behind it. "Because some I saw. Some I picked up from general talk.
He did not continue, but said with a soft voice, "Do you think, Lord L'Estrange, that the contemplation of the mode of life pursued by others can reconcile a man to his own, if he had before thought it needed a reconciler?" Harley looked pleased, for the question was ironical; and if there was a thing in the world be abhorred, it was flattery. "Recollect your Lucretius, Mr.
But it's no good. She doesn't listen to me, you know." Aunt Anne, with the incomparable way that she had, brushed all this very gently aside. She simply said: "I'm glad that she's well." Then she turned to the other gentleman: "Your writing's quite satisfactory, I hope, Mr. Magnus." She spoke as though it had been a cold or a toothache. He smiled his melancholy ironical smile.
Amedee's sensitive nature soon remarked the secret hostility of which he was the object in this group of poets, and he now came to the Cafe de Seville only on rare occasions, in order to take Paul Sillery by the hand, who, in spite of his ironical air, had always shown himself a good and faithful friend.
Will you marry me?" July, blushing scarlet, covered her face with her hands, but shook her head. There was no mistaking the gesture: all the women saw it. "Condole with me, ladies!" said Laquedem, lifting his hat and including them in an ironical bow; and placing July's arm in his, escorted her away.
Her charming head, and graceful, swan-like neck, are raised in an attitude of defiance; her small, rose-colored nostrils seem to dilate with ill-repressed ardor, and she waits with haughty impatience for the moment of an aggressive and ironical interview. Not far from Adrienne is Mother Bunch. She has resumed in the house the place which she at first occupied.
Menko asked the question mechanicaljy, feeling very little curiosity to know Labanoff's secret; but the Russian's face wore a strange, ironical smile as he answered: "I have nothing to say on that subject, even to the man for whom I have the most regard." His brilliant eyes seemed to see strange visions before them. He remained silent for a moment, and then rose with an abrupt movement.
He kept making verses and ditties which were always a little ironical. He did not sleep in the common room and was generally very silent. There were then a good many youths growing up in Midfjord. A certain Skaldtorfa, whose home was in Torfustadir, had a son named Bersi, an accomplished young man and a clever poet.
In answer to the first long desperate letter that I had written to my father after Lucia's visit, in which I told him, without explaining farther, that an accident had happened to the MS., and begging him to release me from the arrangement made before I left England, I had received a derisive note from him, full of ironical sympathy with my misfortunes, and advising me to settle down to another year's work, with a good grace and a contented spirit.
There was a lady leaning back in a corner, wrapped to the chin in a fur garment, and the young man, encountering through his eyeglass her cool, ironical glance, dropped it and held out his hand. "Ah, Mrs. Bellew, great pleasure t'see you again so soon. You goin' up to town? Jolly dance last night, wasn't it? Dear old sort, the Squire, and Mrs. Pendyce such an awf'ly nice woman." Mrs.
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