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They were always talking in the Row, everlastingly gossiping, bantering and sarcastically praising things, and going on in a style which was a curious commingling of earnest and persiflage. Col. Sellers liked this talk amazingly, though he was sometimes a little at sea in it and perhaps that didn't lessen the relish of the conversation to the correspondents.
"I wonder what the impressive business is today," remarked Harry sarcastically. "Let poor Owen alone. He is good and kind even if he doesn't care for Cyrus." "Look here! Why don't you ever say any of these nice things to me the things, you say to dogs and secretaries?" "Because I've promised to marry you some day and it is fatal to let a husband even a futurity husband know that you admire him."
He needs you, does he?" he added, sarcastically. "What about his wife and children? I don't suppose they need him, do they? What talk have ye?" Aileen flung her head back defiantly. "It's true, nevertheless," she reiterated. "You just don't understand." Butler could scarcely believe his ears. He had never heard such talk before in his life from any one. It amazed and shocked him.
"In Egypt, years ago." "Your acquaintance is more varied than I thought," he said sarcastically. "Oh, do not speak to me like that!" she returned, in a low, indignant voice. "Do not patronise me; do not be sarcastic." "Do not be so sensitive," he answered unemotionally. "You surely do not mean that you that the Government will not help him?
"Well, if so," replied Cicely, with a gasp, "where shall we sell them? Who has so much money?" "I'll try to find it, or what is needful. Now, Cousin Emlyn," he added sarcastically, "you see where my profit lies. I buy the gems at half their value, and the rest I keep." "In your own words: go to!" said Emlyn, "and keep your gibes until we have more leisure." The old man thought a while, and said
"Fortunately for the project of Roald," said Vidac with a half-smile playing at his lips, "Captain Strong has been taken off the Roald project." He paused and lounged against the bulkhead to announce, "I have replaced him." "You couldn't replace Captain Strong digging a hole in the ground, mister!" snapped Roger sarcastically.
"He affected to disbelieve the intelligence, and said sarcastically that the safety of Wessex could not be neglected for Aescendune. The Northmen would never hurt a place which had so distinguished itself on St. Brice's day." Here he sighed heavily. "Elfwyn," I said, "my brother, we must not be ungrateful to God. Here are ruins indeed, but they cover no dead bodies; all have escaped."
"As well as I do my own face," was the merry reply of the chief. "Suppose you fellers will follow in your buggy," yelled the chief as the auto-engine started on its dash. "We didn't come in a buggy," shouted back Frank. "Auto then?" "No." "S'pose you flew," sarcastically cried the man on the engine. "That's what."
Hartwell received this intimation of his sister's plans without the slightest token of surprise, and smiled sarcastically as he replied: "Percy, I shall answer you in the words of a favorite author of the day. He says, 'It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of traveling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans.
Not long after, in the presence of several other people, Miss Conway ridiculed Hume's taste in art; he answered her sarcastically and intimated that no woman could display as much science and genius as had entered into the making of the plaster casts she so scorned.
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