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And softly, so softly that none could hear it but himself, sounded the ironical benediction of Schwandorf: "Sleep well, offizier americanisch! Dream on, poor fool! In time you will wake up. Ja, you will wake up!"
Lady Tynemouth was interested; his Excellency was amused. The interest was real, the amusement was not ironical. Blithelygo, seeing that he had at least excited the attention of the luncheon party, said half- apologetically: "Of course my experience is small, but in many parts of the world I have been surprised to see how uniform revolutionises the savage.
The person who had just come upstairs was now ringing Fandor's bell. Not getting any answer, he selected a key on his bunch, and it was his turn to let himself in to the journalist's flat. As he was closing the door, Corporal Vinson, from the landing above, gave him an ironical salute. "I much regret that I am unable to introduce you to each other!
Adding to these exclamations a kind of ironical howl, and gazing upon the company for one brief instant afterwards, in a sudden silence, the irritated gentleman started off again at the same tremendous pace, and was seen no more. It was in vain for Mr Pecksniff to assure them that this new and opportune evasion of the family was at least as great a shock and surprise to him as to anybody else.
He advanced to the table with a little familiar swagger. "Mr. Fenn," the Bishop said, "we have been awaiting your arrival anxiously. Tell us, please, where we can find Mr. Julian Orden." Fenn gave vent to a half-choked, ironical laugh. "If you'd asked me an hour ago," he said, "I should have told you to try Iris Villa, Acacia Road, Hampstead. I have just come from there."
I know a scholar when I see one, if I don't belong to the tribe myself, and I know how they ought to be treated." If, in his turn, he put into a neutral phrase an ironical significance, it was hidden by the hearty and honest friendliness of his keen, dark eyes as he delivered this farewell. The older man's ascetic face relaxed a little.
As I still retained my resentment for the disgrace I suffered in my last rencontre with him, and, now that I the thought myself qualified, longed for an opportunity to retrieve my honour, I magnified the valour of the English with all the hyperboles I could imagine, and described the pusillanimity of the French in the same style, comparing them to hares flying before greyhounds, or mice pursued by cats; and passed an ironical compliment on the speed he exerted in his flight, which, considering his age and infirmities I said was surprising.
At breakfast time on the second morning the hopper was empty, and the last bag of flour tied up. They had enough to satisfy the Kakisas demands, and something besides. In the center of the shed Ambrose left the miller's tithe in payment, with an ironical note affixed to one of the bags. The flour was loaded in the york boat, and the entire party set off in high feather.
My brother-in-law is good enough to keep special rooms for the three of us." "Is there another of you then?" asked Olga. "Yes, another brother Noel. By the way, he won't be going there again at present, for he sailed for Bombay to join his regiment a year ago. That's the sum complete of us." Max straightened himself with a faintly ironical smile.
'Of course, I know; if he were all right he wouldn't be here, said Edith. I suppose he really does suffer a great deal. 'What was it again that prevented him joining? asked Madame Frabelle, with sympathetic tenderness. 'Neurotic heart, answered Edith. Though she tried her very utmost she could not help the tone of her voice sounding a little dry and ironical.
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