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They blundered up tenebrous stairs. "We're just passing my door," said Tommy. "Nick's is higher up." Then a perpendicular slit of light showed itself and a portal slightly open could be distinguished. "I shall quit here," said Tommy. "You go right in." "You aren't leaving us?" exclaimed Miss Ingate in alarm. "I won't go in," Tommy persisted in a quiet satiric tone.
Throughout the first act his presence lightens on us by flashes, as his voice peals out by fits, from behind or above the too meanly decorated altar of tragic or satiric song: in the second it is more sensibly continuous; in the third it is all but utterly eclipsed; in the fourth it is but very rarely intercepted for a very brief interval in the dark divine service of a darker Commination Day: in the fifth it predominates generally over the sullen and brooding atmosphere with the fierce imperious glare of a "bloody sun" like that which the wasting shipmen watched at noon "in a hot and copper sky."
And certainly the spectacle about them was one to provide amusement in the extreme for even the most mildly satiric mind. It was the beach's most crowded hour and the short strip of sand in front of the most fashionable and uncomfortable place to bathe on Long Island was gay as a patch of exhibition sweet-peas with every shade of vivid or delicate color.
All this helps to account for its inexhaustible life; journalism is the criticism of the moment at the moment, and caricature is that criticism at once simplified and intensified by a plastic form. We know the satiric image as periodical, and above all as punctual the characteristics of the printed sheet with which custom has at last inveterately associated it.
In Fielding's satiric description of the Court before which his Amelia stood her trial, he describes himself as an 'old gentleman. The adjective seems hardly applicable to a man of forty five; but, to quote again from Mr Austin Dobson, "however it may have chanced, whether from failing health or otherwise, the Fielding of Amelia is suddenly a far older man than the Fielding of Tom Jones.
All the orators he styled "the slaves of the people." Crowns were, he said, as brittle marks of glory as bubbles of water, which burst in the formation; that theatrical representations were the wonder of fools only. In a word, nothing escaped his satiric humor. He ate, he spoke, he slept, without discrimination, wherever chance placed him.
Don't be such fools as to expect us to take much interest in your Imperial orgies. But we're all right! Only let us alone we're all right!" Such seemed to be the voice of this queer, kindly, satiric personality. London generally falls into the arms of those who flout her; and Mariette, with his militant Catholicism, and his contempt for our governing ideals, became the fashion.
"They seem to be as violent as the women who tore up Orpheus," said Lady Gosstre. Tracy Runningbrook shrieked, in a paroxysm, "Splendid!" from his couch on the sward, and immediately ran off with the idea, bodily. "Have I stumbled anywhere?" Lady Gosstre leaned to Mr. Powys. He replied with a satiric sententiousness that told Lady Gosstre what she wanted to know.
There's a reason." "And what," a satiric English voice enquired, "do you assume that reason to be?" "Search me. 'Sfar's I'm concerned the processes of the British Intelligence Office are a long sight past finding out." "It is simple enough," one of Crane's compatriots suggested: "the Assyrian is suspected of entertaining a devil unawares." "Monsieur means ?" the Swiss enquired.
Humor, except in the satiric vein, is hardly more germane to the genius of Hawthorne than to that of Poe; its occasional exercise is seldom if ever happy. Although most literary comparisons are futile because of the disparateness of the things compared, the present one seems legitimate in the cases of Poe and Hawthorne, superficially so alike in their short-story work.
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