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Updated: June 19, 2025
On turning, I beheld the unexpected speaker a man on horseback, who had ridden up to the bars; and having halted there was craning his neck into the enclosure gazing upon the scene that was being enacted there, with a singular half-comic, half-satirical expression of countenance! Without knowing why, I hailed the arrival of this stranger as opportune.
The big man on the other side of the table was leaning back in his chair with his hands in his pockets, and the smile wrinkling at the corners of his eyes was half-genial, half-satirical. "It's lucky we're alone, McVickar," he remarked. "A third fellow standing around and hearing you talk might imagine that you are trying to bribe me."
That neither the comic nor the pathetic element in the situation was lost upon Southey is evident from his half-sad, half-satirical, wholly winning reply. "Your plan," he writes, "is too good, too gigantic, quite beyond my powers.
A few minutes later he was among them, listening with his cool, half-satirical smile to their protestations of joy and relief, assailed by more questions than he could well answer in a day, his every expression a protest against their contention that he had done a brave and wonderful thing.
At each separate affair which Rabourdin carefully explained, Baudoyer's little eyes grew big as saucers. "Farewell, monsieur," said Rabourdin at last, with a manner that was half-solemn, half-satirical. Sebastien meanwhile had made up a package of papers and letters belonging to his chief and had carried them away in a hackney coach.
He describes these Reformers in his own good-naturedly half-satirical way: "They defied each other like a congress of kings; each of whom had a realm to rule, and a way of his own that made concert unprofitable. What a fertility of projects for the salvation of the world!
Not dictatorially so, but with a humorous, half-satirical insistence that was very engaging. When the sat over the fire together, later, she found herself telling him many things about her early struggles, and first successes, not in the least in a "talking down" attitude, but as to a very sympathetic companion of her own age.
You are making an odd yet vivid impression on me. I believe you will face danger just as you did Mr. Lanniere, in a half-nonchalant and a half-satirical mood, while all the time there will be an undercurrent of downright earnestness and heroism in you, which you will hide as if you were ashamed of it." He flushed with pleasure, but only laughed, "We'll see."
But his voice, his intonations, and his whimsical idea about Molly fitted in with the conception of an "impossible" as little as with the actual visible facts of his ragged shirt-sleeves and faded, earth-stained overalls. They toiled upwards in silence for some moments, the man still chewing on his birch-twig. He noticed her sidelong half-satirical glance at it.
When the bust was finished he said, 'It is not at all like me; my expression is more unhappy." West, the American, who five years later painted his lordship at Leghorn, substantiates the above half-satirical anecdote, by the remark, "He was a bad sitter; he assumed a countenance that did not belong to him, as though he were thinking of a frontispiece for Chlde Harold."
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