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He had been four years in the Guards, and some years in India, as private secretary to his uncle, the Viceroy. He was a good shot, a passionate dancer, a keen musician; and that mysterious note in him of the unbending and the inexorable only made him in general the more attractive both to men and women, as it became apparent to them. Men scoffed at him, yet without ever despising him.
The depth and fervour of this self-denying spirit among them as contrasted with the "healthy individual egotism" of the Allies constitutes one of the most disquieting phenomena of the struggle. Austria has been scoffed at for her abject submissiveness to Germany. But there is another way of looking at her attitude.
Silver," he murmured in his daughter's ear. "And the old gentleman's her father." The girl was alert at once. She, too, had heard the tales. "Is it?" she cried. "Where's she?" "I don't know," the other answered. "I hope they win," said the girl "in some ways." Her father smiled. "You're no American," he scoffed. "You're a woman. That's all you are." The Star-Spangled Jacket
Debray, though he had no tangible foundation for it, could not get rid of the idea that the dangerous Deputy and the Count of Monte-Cristo were one and the same individual, but Beauchamp, with the usual incredulity of journalists, scoffed at the notion, and Château-Renaud derided it whenever it was mentioned in his presence.
If a small gang of Chinamen and Japanese can hold up London, bamboozle the best men in Scotland Yard, and keep a man of your position a prisoner in his own house, I need have no fear of adopting any situation my fertile brain can evolve, because four days ago I would have scoffed at the things which have actually happened as quite impossible and therefore unbelievable." "Japanese, you say?
The mute with the stupor of slumber further to disable his dulled hearing, did not move. "Young!" Philadelphus exclaimed in a whisper. "And new to the life!" "Pfui!" Julian scoffed. "Sleep makes even Venus look innocent!" "Then this is the most innocent wickedness I have seen in months!" "So you catalogue innocence as a charm! It's not here.
I'm out of your debt, no thanks to you, and I'm going to keep out. I am working on your business as hard as though you were my own brother, and I'll go on doing it. I'll get you out of this mess as well as I can, and after that you can take your damned business where you please." "So that's it, is it?" Fischer scoffed.
But never have I seen a bride so utterly oblivious to clothes as Marie was till one day in despair I told her that Cyril never could bear a dowdy woman." "As if Cyril, in the old days, ever could bear any sort of woman!" scoffed Bertram, merrily. "I know; but I didn't mention that part," smiled Billy. "I just singled out the dowdy one." "Did it work?" Billy made a gesture of despair.
What concerned him more nearly was his "benefit" money. He busied himself in canvassing his patrons and the disposal of tickets. The night came. Lavinia was wrought to a high pitch of excitement, but her excitement was pleasurable. The scenery, albeit it would be scoffed at nowadays, was to her magnificent. The costumes were gorgeous.
Old pedantic Nicholai, at whom he scoffed thus, foresaw, with his prosy common-sense, what would happen "with all those confounded striplings," as Wieland called them, "who gave themselves airs as if they were accustomed to play at blind-man's buff with Shakespeare."
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