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Deucedly pretty!" said Carstairs. "I don't think the somewhat petty adjective 'pretty' is at all adequate," said John with dignity. "Maybe not," said Carstairs, noticing the earnest tone in his comrade's voice. "She's bound to become a splendid woman. Is Weber still with the captain?" "No, he's gone on his mission, whatever it is." "A fine night for travel," said Wharton sardonically.
"Hope they'll like it," his neighbour remarked, sardonically. "Plenty of glory and a good price to pay for it. What licks me is that every one seems to imagine that this Tariff Bill is going to give the working-classes a leg-up. To my mind it's the capitalist who's going to score by it." "The capitalist manufacturer," Brooks answered.
To the thinkers and dreamers there comes at such times the greater knowledge: the knowledge which lifts them above self and the trivialities of their own lives; the knowledge that is almost Divine. They appreciate the futility but they realise the necessity. And in their hearts they laugh sardonically as the shadow of Dream's End clouds the sky.
Thus she could hardly piece together Throckmorton's meanings. She thought he had come to gibe at her. 'Why should I listen? she said. 'Because, he answered sardonically, 'you have a great journey indicated for you, and I would instruct you as to certain peaks that you may climb. She had been using her rosary, and she moved it in her lap.
"And so " He paused to blow one of his favorite little smoke rings and watch it float to the dingy ridge-pole, where it flickered and faded into a blue haze " and so, I'm going to say right out in meeting what I think of this town and the Committee they let measure out justice. Justice!" He laughed sardonically.
"I find," Sir Austin remarked, as sardonically he relaxed his inspecting pose and mien, "there are fathers who are content to be simply obeyed. Now I require not only that my son should obey; I would have him guiltless of the impulse to gainsay my wishes feeling me in him stronger than his undeveloped nature, up to a certain period, where my responsibility ends and his commences.
She put it together as best she could from his hurried, excited talk from stories half told, fierce charges against 'charlatans' and 'intriguers, mingled with half-serious, half-comic returns upon himself, attacks on all the world, alternating with a ruthless self-analysis the talk of a man who challenges society one moment with an angry 'J'accuse! and sees himself the next sardonically as the chief obstacle in his own way.
Don't you be troubled, Persis. I'm going to pull through all right." "Oh, I ain't afraid. I don't suppose but what there's plenty would help you, if they knew you needed it, Si." "They would if they knew I DIDN'T need it," said Lapham sardonically. "Did you tell Bill how you stood?" "No, I couldn't bear to.
I'd warn Horrocleave, but it's no business o' mine, especially as ye made me help ye to put him into Horrocleave's.... There's half a dozen people in this town and in Hanbridge that can add up Louis Fores, and have added him up! And now he's robbed ye in yer own house. But it makes no matter. He's safe enough!" He sardonically snorted. "He's safe enough.
They chaffed him unmercifully about his purchases of clouded titles in water lots, and he answered them in kind, aware of Neil's sardonically humorous eye fixed on him. But at the first bars of the next dance he bolted in search of Mrs. Morrell, with whom, he remembered, he had this number. Mrs.
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