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"You don't want it fixed! Maybe you like to have it strike eleven when it's half-past ten!" Billy's voice was merrily sarcastic. "Y-yes, I do," stammered the lady, apologetically. "You see, I I worked very hard to fix it so it would strike that way." "Aunt Hannah!" "Well, I did," retorted the lady, with unexpected spirit. "I wanted to know what time it was in the night I'm awake such a lot."
But the eyes fixed on Catherine, eyes which took in everything, were not cordial, for all their smile. Catherine, looking up at her, was overpowered by her excessive manner, and by the woman's look of conscious sarcastic strength, struggling through all the outer softness of beauty and exquisite dress. 'Mr.
She sat up in bed and said in her haughtiest voice, "I do not know when you were born, or where, but it must have been somewhere where very peculiar manners were taught. If you will have the decency to leave my room er this room until I can get up and dress I shall not transgress upon your hospitality" Rilla was killingly sarcastic "any longer.
"She won't stir; she won't flinch! She's more Grandet than I'm Grandet! Ha! you have not given your gold for nothing? Come, speak the truth!" Eugenie looked at her father with a sarcastic expression that stung him. "Eugenie, you are here, in my house, in your father's house. If you wish to stay here, you must submit yourself to me. The priests tell you to obey me." Eugenie bowed her head.
Her time for fainting had not yet come. "Draw and defend yourself, caitiff!" exclaimed Signor Rodicaso, brandishing his sword. "Anywhere but in the presence of a lady," was the sarcastic reply. "Besides, I have claims on you, which, perhaps may teach you to respect me." "Claims! Thou liest! What claims?" "These! Hast seen them before?
Cynthia, too, glanced from one to the other with a frank merriment that showed how fully she appreciated their mutual dislike. As for Marigny, his white teeth gleamed now in a sarcastic grin. "Adversity is a strict master," he said, lapsing into his own language again. "My blunder of yesterday has shown me the need of caution, so I go no farther than Hereford in my thoughts."
They might be sarcastic or out-spoken; but their self-respect, their good-breeding, would not permit them to become vituperative, to lose themselves in outbursts of wrath though such might have been the healthier course. They knew how to plug the volcano. So for a space, though they quivered, they were silent. Mrs. De Peyster it was who first spoke.
Here we see family love, which had survived the trial of ill-usage and long absence, victorious over the temptation of position and high associates. It took some nerve and a great deal of affection, for the viceroy, whom envious and sarcastic courtiers watched, to own his kin. What a sweet morsel for malicious tongues it would be, 'Have you heard?
We are told, for example, in many lines of great force and spirit, that the speech of Lara was bitterly sarcastic, that he talked little of his travels, that if he was much questioned about them, his answers became short, and his brow gloomy. But we have none of Lara's sarcastic speeches or short answers. It is not thus that the great masters of human nature have portrayed human beings.
But he couldn't help his ears from hearin' the reasonable, eloquent words of earnest and womanly wimmen, so full of good sense and truth and justice that no reasonable person could dispute 'em, and when he contrasted all this with the sneerin' face, the sarcastic egotistic prattle of Maud, the veil dropped from his eyes, and he see with the New Vision.
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