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The sight of his work and his methods; the occasional talks she overheard between him and his scientific comrades; the tones of irony and denial in the atmosphere about him; his antagonisms, his bitternesses, worked strongly upon her still plastic nature.
"M. de Montbron is no doubt returned to Paris, and has been informed in time. He accompanies the magistrate, and comes to deliver me. I pity you, sir both you and yours," added Adrienne, with an accent of bitter irony. "Madame," cried M. Baleinier, no longer able to dissemble his growing alarm, "I repeat to you, take care! Remember what I have told you.
That would give him the freedom of action that he must have. He smiled with bitter irony. That solved the problem! That was all there was to it just that! It was very simple, exceedingly simple; it was only impossible! The smile left his lips, and once more his hands, clenched fiercely. No; it was not impossible! It MUST be done if he was to win through, if he was even to save himself!
She was about to interrupt him, but he waved a hand reprovingly and added with kindly irony: "Yes, we both know you don't need a tonic out of a bottle; but it's just as well other people should think that the tonic bringing back the colour to your cheeks comes out of a bottle and not out of a health resort, called Slow Down Ranch, about four miles to the north-west of Tralee."
He is not blind to their manifold weaknesses, nor is he the dupe of their easy emotionalism, but he is tolerant of their failings, and towards them, at least, his irony is never mordant. Irony is one of M. Halévy's chief characteristics, perhaps the chiefest.
In his voice there was that compassionate irony with which men shield those for whom they care. It means protection and defence. Somehow she seemed to him like a small bird on its first flight from the nest, or, as Patsy Kernaghan would have said, "a tame lamb loose in a zoolyogical gardin."
Following him into the garden next morning, he said to himself: 'No irony that's fatal. Man to man or boy to boy whichever it is! But, on the garden path, alongside that young spread-eagle, whose dark, glowering, self-contained face he secretly admired, he merely began: "How do you like your Uncle John?" "He doesn't like me, Uncle Felix."
The document by which the institution was founded was certainly a masterpiece of ponderous irony, for as the fiction of the King's sovereignty was still maintained, Philip was gravely made to establish the university, as a reward to Leyden for rebellion to himself.
How full of utter, miserable, bitter irony it was that this thing, unscrupulous and shameful, that they had created in their guilt should have brought the beauty and the glory and the yearning of a new life to her and yet should chain her remorselessly to the old!
"Of course, I know I'm no good at climbing," the boy broke out again; "but but I thought where she was allowed to risk her life, I ought to be!" "Good! I like that." It was said so entirely without irony for once, that the boy was disconcerted. "You are young, Brother Lennan," his tutor went on. "Now, at what age do you consider men develop discretion?
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