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He received the same office at Court which he had held under Napoleon, Grand Chamberlain, and afterwards remained a sardonic spectator of events, a not unimposing figure attending at the Court ceremonials and at the heavy dinners of the King, and probably lending a helping hand in 1830 to oust Charles X. from the throne.
The Difficulties of the Problem Aliens and British Shipping The Position of "Key" Industries Freedom to Import and Export Capital our Best Policy. Many things that are now happening must be tickling the sardonic humour of the Muse of History.
I knew at first that you were trying to do me a good turn, but but you were so persistent that you deceived us. I'm really glad there's nothing in it." "Thanks awfully." Then bending a sardonic glance on my friend, I murmured sententiously: "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is Winged Cupid painted blind."
Fielding, Laurier and Cartwright came home profoundly disappointed men; and as stated before old Sir John may have turned over in his grave with a sardonic grin.
Leather, tallow, wheat, oil, fats, timber they are all there for us to draw upon. And for wealth India and China! What more could you have, my friend?" "You take my breath away. But what about Austria?" Seaman's grin was almost sardonic. "Austria," he said, "must already feel her doom creeping upon her.
Well, you've played it, and where's the fortune? We can whistle for that as a sailor whistles for wind. And, by Heaven, we'll need to whistle presently if the weather in the troupe continues as it's set in. That scoundrel Scaramouche has been at his ape's tricks with them. They've suddenly turned moral. They won't sit at table with me any more." He was spluttering between anger and sardonic mirth.
In his flurry be began to splash about: then recollected himself, and trod water quietly. The moon was deserting him, the sardonic moon he had thought of as a friend. Her silver rim glimmered behind the Downs and was gone. He missed her. Cold she was, still she had been company. He thought she might have stayed just this one night! He felt aggrieved, and very much alone.
"I heard the other day," continued Shih Hsiang-yuen, a sardonic smile on her lip, "that while the fan-case, I had worked, was being held and compared with that of some one else, it too was slashed away in a fit of high dudgeon. This reached my ears long ago, and do you still try to dupe me by asking me again now to make something more for you? Have I really become a slave to you people?
Happily, he was unaware, that, for two days after, Chinamen from the laundries, from the gulches, from the kitchens, looked in the front office-door, with faces beaming with sardonic delight; that three hundred extra copies of the "Star" were ordered for the wash-houses on the river.
And now, with my head cut open by a stone, and a broken leg, and two bullet-wounds I've still got a splendid appetite. I ought to be on exhibition somewhere!" His sardonic humor hurt her worse than his anger; and she went quickly to the brook to cleanse the towel again.
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