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Would the Federalists never forget that he was a "foreigner"? He reflected with a sad, ironic smile that as a "foreigner with a French accent" he would have distinct advantages in the world of European diplomacy upon which he was entering. He counted many distinguished personages among his friends, from Madame de Stael to Alexander Baring of the famous London banking house.
In spite of the loyal effort of Meneval to make her ironic procession through life appear as favourable as he can, the only true impression that can be arrived at is that she was without shame, self-control, or pity. A strange sympathiser of Napoleon in his dire distress was a daughter of Maria Theresa and a sister of Marie Antoinette Queen Marie Caroline, grandmother to Marie Louise.
Stanton bowed gravely to the fire in ironic acknowledgment. "Why don't you ever look at me?" burst out Barbara, vexed. "Why do you stare at that horrid fire?" He turned and looked her full in the face. In a moment her eyes dropped before his frank scrutiny. She felt the glow rising across her forehead.
"According to our arrangement, my lord, we have removed Mademoiselle d'Hautefort, as we removed Mademoiselle de la Fayette before her. So far it is well; but her place is not filled, and the King " "Well!" "The King has ideas which he never had before." "Ha! and which come not from me? 'Tis well, truly," said the minister, with an ironic sneer.
Amherst said nothing, but the long silence between them seemed full of ironic answers, till she brought out, hardly above her breath: "What shall you do?" "Write at once tell Mr. Langhope he's not fit for the place." "Of course " she murmured. He went on tearing open his other letters, and glancing at their contents.
An ironic picture came to me of the crowding masses of Quabos stuffed into the protection of the outer cave, waiting the outcome of the fight being waged by their warriors. Here were we in a similar circumstance, waiting for the battle to be decided. Though there was little doubt in the minds of any of us as to what the outcome would be.
By an ironic trick of her memory, she recalled that she had told the clerks in the shops where she had made her purchases that she would send them her address later. How different that address from what she had imagined it! "It's in the country!" she exclaimed. To lunch at Delmonico's for eight dollars and live in Rivington Howard appeared disturbed.
And though, as was proper at the age of twenty, he kept a sharp eye on his father, watchful for defects which might still be remedied, still that father had an 'air' which gave a sort of glamour to his creed of ironic tolerance. Artists of course; were notoriously Hamlet-like, and to this extent one must discount for one's father, even if one loved him.
Her attention was suddenly arrested by a face above the small steady flame of a briquet. It was a thin worn face, probably that of an officer recently discharged from hospital. His expression was ironic and unperturbed and his eyes flashed about the room exhibiting a lively curiosity.
The prime effect of her tone, however and it was a truth which his own eyes gave back to her in sad ironic play could only be to make him feel that, to say such things to a man in public, a woman must practically think of him as ninety years old.
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