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"I am afraid that you will find yourself very seriously annoyed before this affair comes to an end, Mr. Rockamore," said Blaine. "Miss Lawton's butler summoned you this afternoon by my instructions, and with gratifying promptness you came and did just what I expected you would do betrayed yourself irretrievably in your haste to recover the evidence which now will hang you!"
Within fifteen minutes the whole fabric of the gold manipulation had gone to pieces. It is narrated that a mob, bent on lynching, searched for Gould, but that he and Fisk had sneaked away through a back door and had gone uptown. The general belief was that Gould was irretrievably ruined.
How he came to do it, he had no idea himself. A sudden suggestion a strange unaccountable impulse a minute or two of indecision and almost before he knew it, under the spell of that strange eye, the thing was done, irretrievably done for ever.
By this time it was ascertained that the hold was nearly full of water, a circumstance from which the young officer in charge came to the conclusion that the hull was irretrievably damaged, and he then gave orders to lower the boats.
Shunned by the entire body of the believers, abandoned by his life-long and most intimate friends, deserted by his wife, separated from his only child, refused admittance into even his own home, denied of the profit he hoped to derive from the sale and circulation of his book, he found to his utter amazement and remorse his best hopes irretrievably shattered.
A fortnight after my return to the city I forced myself to take a trip to Tannersville. Fanny came to meet me at the train. As we kissed it was borne in upon me that I was irretrievably estranged from her. I tried to play my part, with poor success "Are you worried, Dave? What's the matter with you?" Fanny demanded again and again. Her "What's the matter with you?" jarred on me
There was with us a profound sense of loss and sorrow, due partly to the growing knowledge, not pleasing to our vanity, that Margaret could get on very well without us, that we were not necessary to her life. Miss Forsythe recovered promptly her cheerful serenity, but not the elasticity of hope; she was irretrievably hurt; it was as if life was now to be endured.
To begin with, he had just seen his house which, as luck would have it, was the only thing he had not sold to Philip, and which was also at the moment uninsured, owing to the confusion arising from the transfer of the property entirely burnt down. All its valuable contents too, including a fine collection of pictures and private papers he by no means wished to lose, were irretrievably destroyed.
There was about him, moreover, something irretrievably English, nay even pathetically Victorian it was as if a page of Dickens was shaking my friend's hand. "Count Bragard, I want you to meet my friend Cummings" he saluted me in modulated and courteous accents of indisputable culture, gracefully extending his pale hand.
Never until now, when he had irretrievably lost her, did Deroulede realise how great had been his hopes; how he had watched day after day for a look in her eyes, a word from her lips, to show him that she too his unattainable saint would one day come to earth, and respond to his love.
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