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In her perplexity she expressed the sarcastic anger one might vent upon an equal under the same circumstances: "You'd eat nothing at all, young man, let me tell you, if it wasn't for the 'papers, as you call 'em, in this house!"
If you'd explain it to me, what you have decided on, we'll find out, if possible, how to go about it." "At least you needn't be sarcastic," she replied; "I am not as impossible as you make out. You will have to be different at home " "I thought it was outside home you objected to." "It's one and the same," she went on; "and I won't have them, it, a minute longer. Not a minute!
Her appearance has altered very much for the worse. She is a confirmed dipsomaniac; and she knows it. I advised her to abstain in future. She asked me, in her sarcastic, sisterly way, whether I had any other advice to give her.
She had known last night, when she winced under his sarcastic tongue, and later, when Saint Hubert had left them and his temper had suddenly boiled over, that she was paying for the unaccustomed strain that he was putting on his own feelings. His curses had eaten into her heart, and she had fled from him to stifle the coward instinct that urged her to confess her love and beg his mercy.
"Yuh don't want to mind anything he says while he's like this; yuh know Weary's a good friend to yuh when he's sober. Get some strong coffee that'll straighten him out." "Py cosh, I not feed no drunk fools. I not care if it iss Weary. He hit mine jaw " "Aw, gwan! I guess yuh never get that way yourself," put in Happy Jack, ponderously sarcastic.
"Of course," continued Madeleine with a sarcastic inflection "of course, I can't expect you to see it as I do. Men look at these things differently, I know. Possibly if I were a man, I, too, should stand by, with my hands in my pockets, and watch a friend butt his head against a stone wall thinking it, indeed, rather good fun." She had touched Dove on a tender spot.
Oh, you may trust him to this time you may indeed." Miss Grey's handsome and only too expressive features showed signs of profound dissatisfaction. "I couldn't help telling him that we were going to live in London one's brother, you know." "Yes, one's brother," Miss Grey said with sarcastic emphasis. "They are an affectionate race, these brothers! Then he knows all about our expedition?
But Eleanor would have none of all this "pleasant fuss," as Mary Brooks called it. Suddenly and most inexplicably she reverted to her sarcastic, ungracious manner of the year before. She either ignored the pretty speeches that people made to her, or received them with a stare and a haughty "I really don't know what you mean," which fairly frightened her admirers into silence.
She smiled brilliantly. "How silly!" she said. "Yes, he was very silly," agreed Helmsley, watching her narrowly from under his half-closed eyelids. "But most thinkers are silly, even when they don't take opium. They believe in Love." She coloured. She caught the sarcastic inflection in his tone. But she was silent.
But a few paces distant, standing amidst the long and rank fern that grew on either side of their path, quite motionless, and looking on the pair with a sarcastic smile, stood the ominous stranger, whom the second chapter of our first volume introduced to the reader.
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