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It was odd that, as I was thinking these things, walking up Surrey Street from the Temple Embankment, I overtook Gideon, who was slouching along in his usual abstracted way. I touched his arm and spoke to him. He gave me his queer, half-ironical smile. 'Hallo, Jukie.... Where are you bound?... By the way, did you by chance see the Haste this morning? 'Not by chance.
It was done with knowledge, sometimes with humour, and through it all ran a curious undercurrent of half-ironical passion.
Presently he caught a glimpse of the fugitive in the distance, heard the half-angry, half-ironical shouts of the crowd at the back door, and as he reached the hilltop saw, with a mingling of satisfaction and perplexity, Mrs. Barker on the other road, still driving frantically in the direction of the railroad station. At which Mr.
I am inclined to go farther into the desert, farther among the people of my own faith. I don't want to be surrounded by French. Some day perhaps I may return. But at present everything draws me onward. Tell me" he dropped the earnest tone in which he had been speaking, and she heard once more the easy, half-ironical man of the world "do you think me a half-crazy eccentric?" "No!"
I'd like to owe you that; and it's a good thing for a man himself to be owed kindness. He remembers it when he gets older. It helps him to forgive himself more or less for what he's sorry for in life. I've enough in this bunch to pay for board and professional attendance, or else the price has gone up since I had a doctor before." He laughed now, and the laugh was half-ironical, half-protesting.
Of course we don't know yet how the land lies. Ellen will tell us." They were silent for a little. Then he looked at her with a puzzled, half- humorous, half-ironical glance. "It's a bit of a blow to you, Aunt Alice, burying yourself down here. London was the breath of your nostrils. What did you come for? Love of me?" She looked steadily back at him. "Not love exactly. Curiosity, perhaps.
"I know that you have tried to help me while I was in prison, and " He held up his other hand with a gesture of half-ironical protest. "Ah!" he exclaimed, "I am afraid that any poor efforts of mine in that direction were due to the most flagrant compulsion." He paused. "Whatever else you are unlucky in, Mr. Lyndon," he added smilingly, "you can at least be congratulated on your friends."
It will be easily propagated, for the beginnings of it are in the heart of every man, and need very little fostering!" His thrilling tone, together with the calm, half-ironical persuasiveness of his manner, sent a sudden hush down the table.
"You must be very tired," said the doctor, stepping back a pace or two; "I'm a physician, and should advise a nap." "Are you, indeed!" replied the youth, in the same half-drawling, half-ironical tone of voice; "then I think I'll take your advice;" and he threw himself upon the grass, and closed his eyes.
And, in the intervals, he pursued his ordinary occupations of reading and composing, to which he had now added the transcribing of his own memoirs and a self-instituted office of beauty-worship at the statue-shrine, inaugurated in a fit of angry repudiation of Christian rites, and continued in that spirit of half-ironical defiance that was now his most salient characteristic.
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