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Commenting on the British success at the battle of Arras, an Italian journal optimistically asked its readers what would be the plight of the Central Empires when real military Powers got to work, since so much had been achieved by the semi-civilians of the British Empire. Hopes also ran high in France.
"I am as poor as a church mouse, if you want to know," said Rivington. "And you will marry on nothing?" "I dare say we sha'n't starve," said Rivington optimistically. "Ah!" Again that beast-like snarl. There was no green glare left in the watching eyes only red, leaping flame. "And you like poverty?" asked the Indian in the tone of one seeking information.
The Jamaican rose, saying: "Step this way, please. I know the place where a very good female is. Per'aps she will make us a present." "How far is it?" "Oh, not too far," Allan replied, optimistically, and Kirk hopefully followed him. But at the opposite side of the square they were halted by a sudden commotion which drove all thoughts of food out of their minds.
No one seemed to mind or worry. "He will arrive" they said optimistically, and talked of other things. At every station fascinating-looking infirmières from the French Red Cross, clad in white from top to toe, stepped into the carriage jingling little white tin boxes. "Messieurs, Mesdames, pour les blessés, s'il vous plaît," they begged, and everyone fumbled without a murmur in their pockets.
"Ptolemy," she demanded, "where have your father and mother gone?" He came forward and replied in a voice somewhat smothered by cakes and sirup. "I don't know. They didn't say." "We can find out from the ticket-agent," I optimistically assured her. "They never bother to buy tickets. Pay on the train," Ptolemy explained. My legal habit of counter-argument asserted itself.
But her knowledge eventually decided her in favour of the road. "Besides," as she optimistically remarked to herself, "someone might pass and give me a lift." For Dot was not above being seen in a waggon or a tradesman's cart. She accepted as she was prone to give, promiscuously and with absolute freedom. But it was no tradesman's cart that the gods had in store for her that day.
And I am not sure that I want you to come. I shall send you away if you scold." She hung up the receiver and left him fuming. Her high-handed indifference to his authority sent him storming to Derry, "I've half a mind to stay away." "I think I would. It won't do any good to go " But the Doctor went. He still hoped, optimistically, that Hilda might be induced to see the error of her ways.
On one occasion, however, I engaged a young bachelor, partly because he replied, with a knowing smile, to a question as to whether he was married, that he dared say he could be if he liked which I optimistically took to amount to an announcement of his engagement.
When he reached mechanically into his pocket for his Bull Durham and papers, any man who knew him well would have recognized the motion as a sign that Casey was himself again, once more on his mental feet and ready to go boring optimistically into his next bunch of trouble. Mack Nolan raised his head off his arm and glanced at Casey quizzically.
"Getting round 'em," suggested Paul optimistically, and passed on into his dufter. Lance lit a cigar, flung himself into a verandah chair and picked up the 'Civil and Military. He had just scanned the war telegrams when Roy came up at a round trot. Lance sat forward and discarded the paper. An exchange of glances sufficed. Roy's determination to 'bluff the board' had failed.
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