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"'Because right is right to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence," quoted Gilbert. "Oh, you think a couplet of poetry a convincing argument!" scoffed Anne. "That is so like a man." And then she laughed in spite of herself. It sounded so like an echo of Miss Cornelia.
Then I saw that the only face in all the wide hall which was not bright was that of Alsi, and his brow was black as a thunder cloud, while his fingers were white with the force with which he clutched and twisted the end of his jewelled belt. Plainly he was in a royal rage that none had scoffed at this wedding, but that all had taken it as a matter that was right altogether.
Meanwhile Handiman scoffed and bade him take heed for his valuables, lest his new-found friends should appropriate them. He did not believe in honest gratitude, he declared, particularly where homeless wanderers in the Burmese jungle were concerned. At last, however, they were so far recovered as to be able to proceed on their way once more.
"Lady, there are no choice situations for that," scoffed the vice- principal. "I don't like the pejorative way you said the word, "lady." She stood up. She couldn't imagine being called a more vulgar word." "I think we should talk about this. Sorry, I didn't mean to be disrespectful. You are obviously highly educated and I want to hear what you have to say.
No one seemed to know much about the Bekwando Land Company, and the country that way was very rough. However, we got sent out at last, and Cathcart, he simply scoffed at the whole thing from the first. There was no proper labour, not half enough machinery, and none of the right sort and the gradients and country between Bekwando and the sea were awful.
His lordship was not disturbed. "I desire, sir, that we be friends," said he suavely. "That's mighty condescending of you!" Lord Julian ignored the obvious sarcasm. "It's an odd coincidence that we should have been brought together in this fashion, considering that I came out to the Indies especially to seek you." "Ye're not by any means the first to do that," the other scoffed.
"And you ought to take it as a proof of our devotion, that we didn't stop for any. We were too anxious to get here to tell you our news." "And blow a little," scoffed Mollie, the irrepressible. "Oh, for goodness' sake stop talking," entreated Betty, with her hands to her ears. "If the boys want biscuits they shall have them if I have to stay up all night to cook some for them.
For her sake, not being a liberal man, he spent money freely; for her sake he endured Miss Blake; for her sake he bought the place which afterwards caused us so much trouble; for her sake, he, who had always scoffed at the folly of people turning their houses into stores for "useless timber," as he styled the upholsterer's greatest triumphs, furnished his rooms with a lavish disregard of cost; for her sake, he, who hated society, smiled on visitors, and entertained the guests she invited, with no grudging hospitality.
"There's some one up there," she whispered, all the color gone from her face. "Hush," said Anne, with her eyes on Judy. Judy was not afraid. She was still weak and wan, but she was braver than the little country girls, and not easily frightened. "It is probably a pussy cat," she scoffed. "Or a hen," giggled Amelia. Anne said nothing.
But, almost always he appeared at night during my dreams, gentle as some fairy guardian; he tried by words of sweetness to subdue the soul which he would appropriate to himself. While he attracted, he also scoffed at me; supple as a woman's mind, cruel as a tiger, his friendliness was more formidable than his hatred, for he never yielded a caress without also inflicting a wound.
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