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She lived in a poor row of cottages, striking off from one of the main South-western suburb roads, not very distant from his own lodgings, at which he marvelled, as at a cruel irony. He could not discern the numbers, and had to turn up several of the dusky little strips of garden to read the numbers on the doors.
There was a skirmish at Lexington on the road to Concord between the King's troops and a body of minute-men, which resulted in the killing and wounding of many of the latter and the dispersal of their force. An expedition that began with what might in irony be termed a victory for the British arms ended in a disaster as tragic as it was complete.
In time, of course, the surveillance would cease but he could not wait. That was the monumental irony of it the factor that, all unknown to Kline, was forcing the issue hard now. It was his move.
'The devil take the serious character of these people, said I, aside; 'they understand no more of irony than this. The comparison was standing close by with her panniers, but something sealed up my lips. I could not pronounce the name. "'Sir, said I, collecting myself, 'it is not my intention to take post. "'But you may, said he, persisting in his first reply. 'You may if you choose.
The men, tattered, drenched with sweat, made dull by weariness, and din and heat; and the mighty machines, created by those men, shining, well-fed, serene, in the sunshine; machines which in the last resort are, after all, not set in motion by steam, but by the muscles and blood of their creators in this contrast was a whole poem of cruel and frigid irony.
"He fired in the air," said Baker, as he spoke in reply to a question from Conyers. What he answered I heard not, but Baker rejoined, "Yes, I am certain of it. We all saw it." "Had you not better examine his wounds?" said Conyers, in a tone of sarcastic irony I could almost have struck him for. "Is your friend not hit? Perhaps he is bleeding?"
We still possess the picture drawn not without irony by Caesar's own hand of the state of matters at his own headquarters when orders were given to march against Ariovistus, of the cursing and weeping, and preparing of testaments, and presenting even of requests for furlough. In the soldiery not a trace of the better classes could any longer be discovered.
But it was reserved for the recent convention to bring together within the compass of a single council-room the surviving leaders of the period of conflict to work together for the making of a united state. In looking over the list of them and reflecting on the part that they played toward one another in the past, one realizes that we have here a grim irony of history.
If, therefore, you wish to call off your watch-dog, you are at liberty to do so. I hardly think he can be serviceable to either of us much longer." The older gentleman hesitated, seeking possibly for composure, and when he answered it was not only without irony but with a certain forced respect: "Mr. Sweetwater has just left for New York, Mr. Brotherson.
The shades of evening will be on us in an hour and our dark mantles will excite no attention. Have no fear, Cæsar! no one would suspect thee of running in the teeth of danger." The tone of bitter irony was lost on the dulled perceptions of this miserable coward. "I would not dare," he murmured intermittently, "I would not dare."
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