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They are of those who 'pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope, and who, since they expect that 'the deficiencies of last sentence will be supplied by the next, have been recommended by Dr. Samuel Johnson to 'attend to the History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. They are characterised by a hectic hopefulness. Nothing damps them.
"None of us expect to get out of this business alive if it does not succeed. Now that is all I have to say for the present. It is for you to bring the ladies here as your prisoners, to see us out of the town before daybreak, and to have the troika in readiness for us on the Tobolsk road. Then see to yourself and I will be responsible for the rest."
"Bon Dieu! my old friend, what do you expect?" replied Madame de Chantonnay to a rather incoherent statement made to her one May afternoon by the Marquis de Gemosac. "It is the month of May," she further explained, indicating with a gesture of her dimpled hand the roses abloom all around them.
The car, I should explain though I can hardly expect to be believed was not unlike the floor of a hansom cab, from which the seat, the roof, the driver's perch, and everything else should have been removed, except the basis, the wheels, and the splashboard, the part on which we generally find the advertisements of Messrs. Mappin and Webb.
He could not bring himself to marry a wife out of Mrs Askerton's drawing-room, nor could he expect his mother to receive a young woman brought into the family under such circumstances. And Plaistow Hall was almost as bad. It was as bad to him, though it would, perhaps, be less objectionable in the eyes of Lady Aylmer. Should Clara go to Plaistow Hall there must be an end to everything.
Week after week the Adamant moved southward, roaring away with her great guns whenever an American sail came within possible range, and surrounding herself with a circle of bursting bombs to let any crab know what it might expect if it attempted to come near.
Was she not, after all, under obligation to be grateful to him for everything for which she reproached him? How dear she must be to this great sovereign, since, in order to possess her freely and completely, he allowed himself to be urged to an act which was unworthy of him! If he had wounded her deeply, he had a right to expect her to excuse many things in him.
"I own," says Jones, "I did not expect to have been so well known in this country as I find I am; yet, for particular reasons, I shall be obliged to you if you will not mention my name to any other person till I am gone from hence." "Pauca verba," answered the barber;" and I wish no other here knew you but myself; for some people have tongues; but I promise you I can keep a secret.
"What did you want of me?" he inquired. "Help." "Help? From such a man as I? What sort of help do you expect from a drunkard?" "Every sort. All you can give. All you can give." He looked at her wearily; his face had become pallid again; the dark hollows of dissipation showed like bruises. "I don't understand," he said. "I'm no good, you know that. I'm done in, finished.
The women had shawls over their heads and high-heeled shoes under their skirts. At the Alhambra in London the audience would have known what dance to expect when such a group had slouched into the glamour of the footlights. They were doing a kind of slow dance now, though without any music except that of women's sobs and a man's sibilant curses.
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