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"You've been muttering to yourself and squinting and Dickie got worried about you." "Not more than usual though I'm glad to learn the symptoms." Then I looked at her, and the wonder of a girl in love hit me almost like a blow. In it lay the answer to my thoughts. No longer a cynical amusement in their failure to realise the contrast, but rather a mighty thankfulness.
It was, perhaps, part of this reaction which enabled him to obey his hostess' commands with a certain recklessness that, however, seemed to be in keeping with the previous Satanic reputation he had all unconsciously achieved. The women listened to the cynical flippancy of this good-looking soldier with an undisguised admiration which in turn excited curiosity and envy from his own sex.
Society might make him either cynical or frivolous. History would bring him the same information, without subjecting him to the same perils. In society you only hear the words of men; to know man you must observe his actions, and actions are only unveiled in history. This view is hardly worth discussing. The subject of history is not the heart of man, but the movements of societies.
In two months' time Carl Rubach was restored to his old place at the Garrick, and poor Christopher was beginning to find out in real earnest what it was to be hungry. He was too proud to ask anybody for a loan, and Rubach was the only man he really knew. 'When things are at their worst, says the cynical bard, 'they sometimes mend. Things suddenly mended for Christopher.
Landale, and paused a moment, ready for the skirmish, as she noticed the cynical curiosity with which he examined her. "Whither, my fair sister," said he, ranging himself with his best courtesy against the bannisters, "so late in the day?" "To my lord and master's side, of course," said Molly. "Why is not Adrian coming back to-night?"
But these doors the main entrance of the palace were locked, and, at a glance, Casanova saw that nothing short of a hatchet would serve to open them. There was no more to be done. With a resignation that seemed to Balbi entirely cynical, Casanova sat down on the floor. "My task is ended," he announced. "It is now for Heaven or Chance to do the rest.
It is not likely that such a keen and cynical observer as Heinrich Heine would have written as he did concerning Lassalle, had not the latter been a brilliant and magnetic youth. Heine wrote to Varnhagen von Ense, the German historian: My friend, Herr Lassalle, who brings you this letter, is a young man of remarkable intellectual gifts.
The young man paused a moment to watch the effect of his revelation of himself to Constance Dunlap. There was a certain cynical bitterness in his tone which made her shudder. "If you were to be discovered what then?" she hazarded. Murray Dodge looked at her significantly, but said nothing. Instead, he turned and gazed silently at the ruffled waters of Woodlake.
His laboratory was his studio, a place apart from all the outside world, the threshold where he was content to stand and knock, waiting in perfect, reverential patience until the mysterious door ahead of him should open just a very little wider. To the outward eye, he was languid, indifferent, a little cynical and prone to boredom.
At the same time, it found on the whole so many more difficulties in a cynical and shameless withdrawal from the Treaty of Hall than in a nominal and tardy fulfilment of its conditions that it resolved at last to furnish the 8000 foot and 2000 horse promised to the possessory princes.
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