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But Flora remained benign while the old lady drew a little mocking sigh. "Ah," said the latter, "if the General would only stop changing his mind about his two nephews, what a lot of hard work that would save you!" "It isn't hard!" cried Flora; so radiantly that passing strangers brightened back, "I love it!" "It!" mocked the grandmother as the girl passed her into the carriage. "It!"
Yet here, as the home faces its duty toward a family yet to be, is just where some of the most serious mistakes are made. This is no time for teasing and jesting, still less for mocking ridicule. If you treat this essentially sacred step as a joke it will not be strange if the young people follow suit and take marriage as a yet larger joke.
Into the cavern strode the king, followed by his fearful but curious train. The rooms, as tradition had said, were many, and from room to room he hurried with rapid feet. He sought in vain. No gold appeared, no jewels glittered on his sight. The rooms were drear and empty, their hollow floors mocking his footsteps with long-silent echoes.
I want to end this matter. I want to know who you are." "My precious Mollie, your husband!" "But who are you?" "One of your rejected suitors." "But which of them? there were so many." "The one who loved you best." "Pshaw! I don't want trifling! What is your name?" "Ernest." "I never had a lover of that name," said Mollie, decidedly. "You are only mocking me. Are you are you Hugh Ingelow?"
A broken hearted mother laid her soft hand affectionately upon his head, and called his name in such endearing tones as only a mother's lips can breathe; but he knew not that it was her, he felt only the touch of a horrid specter, and heard but the mocking of fiends! Then he raved and bid the ghostly phantoms begone!
No writer was more of his period than Shakespeare, yet how contemporary he seems to each succeeding generation. Leonardo, in a perfect portrait, showed forth the face of a subtle, sensuous, and mocking spirit, against a background of wild rocks.
For an instant Gerty thought attentively, while the mocking gayety changed to a serious hardness upon her face. "More forgetfulness," she answered presently. "That's what we all want isn't it? Call it by what name you will religion, dissipation, morphia what we are all trying to do is to intoxicate ourselves into forgetting that life is life."
Before long flowers were blooming in Pepeeta's window; a mocking bird was singing in a cage above it; on the wall hung the old tambourine and one after another many little inexpensive but brightening bits and scraps of things such as women pick up by instinct found their places in this simple attic.
He nerved himself to the task, and told her of the finding of Norah and of what followed. "Have you ever discovered that the desk had a false bottom?" he asked in conclusion. "No, brother Maurice. The spirits hadn't revealed it to me. But then I never asked them about that." There was an air of triumphant glee in her manner, an open and mocking sneer, which dismayed him.
I have besides remarked a certain expression on her transparent countenance when we talked of you, and she has dropped a word, now and then," "What what what words? But no, you are mocking me cruelly! It cannot be that she ever thinks of me! I have too powerful a rival." "A rival! what rival?" asked Madeleine, in genuine astonishment. "The Viscount Maurice."
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