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Now events had conspired to give him some chance of earning a fortune quickly, had not the irony of fate raised the winsome face and figure of Winifred as a bogey from the grave to bar his path. So he choked back his wrath, and shoved the decanter of spirits across the table to his morose companion.
"Because good and generous emotions are more common to the human heart than we are aware of till the appeal comes." "Don't ask me to think that! I have found the world so base." "Pardon me a rude question; but what do you know of the world?" Beatrice looked first in surprise at Harley, then glanced round the room with significant irony.
Andrew, and directly I came in sight he hurried away." "Can I give him any message?" Cecil asked with faint irony. "He will no doubt be up with the fish later in the day." She turned her back on him. "I am going back to the house," she said. "I did not come out here to walk with you." "Considering that I am your host," he began
Surely you did not need Mr. Watson to tell you what they are saying in England and France. That has been obvious unpleasantly obvious and, I suppose, obviously unpleasant. He smiled with a little touch of irony, and leaning forward, flicked the ash from his cigar on to a plate. 'Mr. Watson, he resumed, 'has asked what we have done with America's soul.
The recollection of this speech returned to me with peculiar irony, now that his cannon were being fired from the barricade upon the enemy. I felt a still deeper impression, however, when, towards eleven o'clock, I saw the old Opera House, in which a few weeks ago I had conducted the last performance of the Ninth Symphony, burst into flames.
That Philip Vantine should have been killed by enthusiasm for the hobby which had given him so much pleasure seemed the very irony of fate, yet such I believed to be the case. To be sure, there were various incidents which seemed to conflict with such a theory, and the theory itself seemed wild to the point of absurdity; but at least it was a ray of light in what had been utter darkness.
"Most true, mio bravo Signor Ercole; you speak like an oracle; and if she left on you the impression that she is a clever woman, I have no doubt in the world that she is so." There was no irony in the Marchese's mind when he said this; and the little impresario, highly gratified again, half rose from his chair to bow in return for the compliment.
But this time she was not conscious of any note of irony in his manner, rather of a kind protectingness more pronounced, perhaps, than it would have been in an Englishman, at the same stage of acquaintance. But Elizabeth liked it; she liked, too, the fine bare head that the torchlight revealed; and the general impression of varied life that the man's personality produced upon her.
They cannot all be certain, as I am, that their children were born for greatness: and yet, I wonder sometimes " She wound up with a smile which held something of a playful irony, but more of sadness. "Jacky could not come with you?" "No, and he writes bitterly about it. He is tied to Oxford by lack of pence, again."
But I shall never marry any one who is not a Douglas." The marshal nodded. "I do not think that you shall marry any one who is not a Douglas!" he said, with a certain grave and not discourteous irony in his tones. "Yes," the little Maid went on. She had lost all fear in the very act of speech. "Yes, and Maud, she is going to marry Sholto and they will be very happy, for they love each other so.
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