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If I married you it would be because as your wife I should have so many opportunities. I should expect to do exactly as I please. I shouldn't want you to interfere with me, though I should want to be able to influence you." "Nothing could be fairer than that," was his amiably ironical comment. "You see, I don't know you not really and they say all sorts of things about you."
That able novelist, who is bounded so exclusively in her little social world, nevertheless stands apart from it and sees it whole. Mr. Hergesheimer has his feet still deep in the soil. He is too much a part of his country club life. He means, perhaps, to be ironical, but in truth he is too sympathetic with the desires, emotional and aesthetic, that he expresses to be ironical until the close.
She had risen from her seat and stood facing him, her fists clenched, her face set and determined. Stott had never seen her in this mood and he gazed at her half admiringly, half curiously. "What will you do?" he asked with a slightly ironical inflection in his voice. "I am going to fight John Burkett Ryder!" she cried. Stott looked at her open-mouthed. "You?" he said. "Yes, I," said Shirley.
How long do you intend to torture me with your odious presence, your ironical smiles, and your insulting glances? Before your arrival I was not completely unhappy. God be praised, it has been reserved for you to give me the finishing stroke.
Under the chestnut tree the swarthy auctioneer with his amiable countenance and ironical smile acquired through years of dispassionate observation of the follies of human emotion, the mutability of human affairs, the brevity of human endeavour, that brought everything at last under his hammer there by the chestnut tree the auctioneer had taken his stand in temporary eminence upon an old chest, with an ancient kitchen cupboard near him which served at once as a pulpit for exhortation, and a block for execution.
When Albert and I parted no tears were shed; we resigned ourselves to the decree of destiny with equanimity. But I humbly submit that Mrs. Captain, when thanking me for my good intentions towards him, might have spared me the ironical advice not to volunteer for duties in future which I was not qualified to fulfil. "Volunteer," ye gods! when she had absolutely entreated me to take him in charge.
There were only seven or eight ladies present, none of them being especially attractive. Their toilettes were very costly, but in rather doubtful taste, and they wore a profusion of diamonds. Pascal noticed that these ladies were treated with perfect indifference, and that, whenever the gentlemen spoke to them, they assumed an air of politeness which was too exaggerated not to be ironical.
He bowed to her with cool, withering, ironical courtesy as he stood waiting for her to depart. She hesitated, laughed with the ring of hysteria, fluttered into speech. "You are not, of course, aware of it, but I happen to be an old schoolfellow of your wife's."
In utrumque paratus, the article was mysterious, suggestive, amusing, well-informed, that in the 'Evening Pulpit' was a matter of course, and, above all things, ironical. Next to its omniscience its irony was the strongest weapon belonging to the 'Evening Pulpit. There was a little praise given, no doubt in irony, to the duchesses who served Mr Melmotte.
In a country governed by party, a politician who quits the allies of a lifetime must expect to pay the penalty. The Whig papers told him that he was expected to surrender his seat in Parliament. They imputed to him all sorts of sinister motives. His name was introduced into ironical toasts. For a whole year there was scarcely a member of his former party who did not stand aloof from him.
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