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Why had she been singled out for this persecution of the brain. It is terrible to have a brain which mocks at you instead of happily mocking at others. And that was her case.
"What disgrace, sir?" repeated the Deemster, mocking his son in a mincing treble. Then he roared, "Behaving dishonourably to a poor girl that what's disgrace, sir! Isn't it enough? eh? eh?" "More than enough," said the young man. "But who is doing it? I'm not." "Then you're doing worse. Did I say worse? Of course I said worse. Worse, sir, worse! Do you hear me? Worse!
"Old enough to set the world right," suggested Pierre, still mocking. "She was forced away, she regarded you as her natural protector, she believed you her father: they broke the law," said the soldier. "There was Moses, and Solomon, and Caesar, and Socrates, and now...!" murmured Pierre in assumed abstraction.
There was something harsh and hysterical about the laugh which accompanied her mocking farewell, but she was gone the next instant, and the door slammed behind her. Ma stepped up to her boy, and forgetful of his wounded shoulder rested her hand upon it. Seth flinched and drew away; and the old woman was all sympathy at once. "I'm real sorry, boy, I kind o' forgot."
You're a cheat, you're a cheat," it said tauntingly, and a little sparrow on the window sill outside took up the mocking refrain, "Cheat! Cheat!" Stung as though some one had pointed an accusing finger at her, Migwan flung down her pen in despair and resolutely blotted her paper.
The idea that Undine had been only a mere apparition of the forest, again gained ascendancy over him; indeed, amid the howling of the waves and the tempest, the cracking of the trees, and the complete transformation of a scene lately so calmly beautiful, he could almost have considered the whole peninsula with its cottage and its inhabitants as a mocking illusive vision; but from afar he still ever heard through the tumult the fisherman's anxious call for Undine, and the loud praying and singing of his aged wife.
Will not the mocking fable of Tantalus be repeated constantly, as I see others drinking daily at a fountain which though apparently so near is ever beyond my reach?" Shivering with the chill of the night and the deeper chill at heart, he retired to troubled sleep.
Something to compose me, and then to bed!" In spite of soothing powders, however, he passed a restless night and arose unrefreshed, but ordered his valet to bring one of his lightest suits, and, having dressed, he set a white flower upon his coat, while the servant proceeded to apply various pigments to the wrinkled face, until it took on a mocking semblance to the countenance of a man fifteen years younger.
Down went the cards with triumphant bangs, and the moves of the "dogs" were like lightning. First a mocking voice: "You call yourself a player! There! there! there!" Then a meek, piping tone: "So so verily, you are my master. Well, let us praise Allah for your wisdom." But soon a wild burst of irony: "You are like him who killed the dog and fell into the river.
"Between him and this girl here I think we ought to be able to recover Strangwise's lost property for him!" "But you haven't got Okewood yet!" observed the lady in a mocking voice. The man looked evilly at her, his heavy, fat chin set square. "But we shall get him, never fear. With a little bird-lime as attractive as this " He broke off and jerked his head in the direction of Barbara.
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