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Effingham, "but I had the bonds they only paid two per cent and the oil stock was going to pay twenty and so I took them down to the bank and borrowed ten thousand dollars on them. I had to sign a note and pay five per cent interest. I was making the difference fifteen hundred dollars every year." "What has it paid?" demanded Mr. Tutt ironically. "Twenty per cent," replied Mrs. Effingham.
"Oh, verse?" "I felt too lazy to begin a novel," she explained. His eyes travelled down the brief lines of the little song she had been reading, his face hardening as he read. "Charmingly optimistic," he observed ironically, as he closed the book. "I'm afraid, however, that the 'garden of happy hours' is a purely imaginary one for most of us."
All these years of blood and battle were now half forgotten by Prince Andras; but often Yanski Varhely, his companion of those days of hardship, the bold soldier who in former times had so often braved the broadsword of the Bohemian cuirassiers of Auersperg's regiment, would recall to him the past with a mournful shake of the head, and repeat, ironically, the bitter refrain of the song of defeat: Dance, dance, daughters of Hungary!
"And you propose that I should give them up for nothing?" queried Larssen ironically. "For £200,000 in ordinary shares. The monetary value is the same. The difference would be that you'll have two hundred thousand with your own money, not the British public's." There was silence while the two men eyed one another relentlessly.
"Convince me?" said the king, ironically. "And how?" "King Louis of France not only proposes to renew this contract, she, who he wishes to draw the bonds of friendship much closer between France and Prussia." "And to what end?" said the king. "For you well know, duke, that in politics personal inclinations must not be considered.
I advanced till I was four steps from the throne, then stopped before her. She looked at me ironically. "What is that?" she asked with perfect calm. I followed her gesture. The handle of the dagger protruded from my pocket. I drew it out and held it firmly in my hand, ready to strike.
The proposition was probably meant ironically, but at all events Litsong rejected it, and sent Mongkong to take by force possession of the disputed province. The Mongol forces on the spot were fewer than the Chinese, and they met with some reverses.
"We are sure to have the Intendant here in a few minutes and to learn the cause of this uproar. It is some trifling affair of noisy habitans, I have no doubt." Another loud shout, or rather yell, made itself distinctly heard in the council-chamber. "It is the people cheering the Intendant on his way through the city!" remarked La Corne St. Luc, ironically. "Zounds! what a vacarme they make!
If I am not very greatly mistaken, here is real musical genius of the first order, going to waste: strong forces being turned in upon the nature, to its own destruction; and, as you say, it seems as if nothing could be done. It is the more ironically cruel, since Hubert is himself musical." "Oh, yes, but in quite a different way. His fetish is good taste, or what he thinks such.
"A hundred rank and file eight non-commissioned officers two lieutenants one captain and one major: " "Bravo, sergeant, you'll carry all before you." "Why, I hope so, Mistress Corbett; especially as we are to have the assistance of the cutter's crew." "Better and better still," replied Nancy, ironically. "I wish you joy of your laurels, sergeant, ha, ha, ha!"
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