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He heard the girl cry out sharply and he raised his head with an effort and smiled reassuringly at her, and when he felt her hands on his arm, trying to lift him, he laughed aloud in self-derision and got to his feet, hanging to the door jamb. "I'm sorry, Miss Benham," he mumbled. "I lost some blood, I suppose. Rotten luck, isn't it. I shouldn't have stopped."
His lips twisted in a pallid smile of self-derision. "At all events for once I know myself. If I ever become a man, God knows I'll come to you. But I haven't done it yet. I mustn't know where you are, dear. I'm strong enough just now, but in some dark, weak moment I'll come hurrying to you, if I can find you before I've proved myself." "I'm going out on the road this afternoon," she spoke slowly.
And Bessy ? Perhaps if their little son had lived she might in turn have obeyed the world-old instinct of self-effacement but now! He remembered with an intenser self-derision that, not even in the first surprise of his passion, had he deluded himself with the idea that Bessy Westmore was an exception to her sex.
These modern scientific bullets, these civilized bullets" he laughed in self-derision at the use of the word "they are cruel and yet they are merciful too. If they do not kill you outright they have a little way, somehow, of not killing you at all." "But the bayonet wounds and the saber wounds?" I said. "How about them?"
Her laugh held the bitterness of self-derision. "I'm through, there, Jeff." "Hell!" cursed the man. She looked at him, her lips curving with amused contempt. "Oh, you're all right don't worry. That's all you care about, isn't it?" She laughed harshly at the quickened light in his eyes. "You'd see me sacrifice myself; you wouldn't give me a word of sympathy. That's you! That's the way of all men.
She was able even to meet Prince Victor without her customary shiver of aversion; and when she recalled the persistence and enthusiasm with which she had reasoned herself into believing, last night, that he might be another than her father, she came as near to mirth as she was to come that day; but it was mirth bitter with self-derision.
The master directed a brief glance at the second story whence floated the dull sound of the carpet-beater. He thrust the key rapidly into the keyhole for a desire stirred in him to slip past the porter's lodge unobserved. "I seem almost to be ashamed!" he murmured with a smile of self-derision as a similar impulse overcame him in front of the house door.
He went down, his eyes wide with incredulity, filling with hideous self-derision when he saw that the pistol which had sent his death to him was not in Harlan's right hand at all, but in his left. Harlan got up slowly as Latimer stretched out in the dust at his feet casting one swift glance at the fallen man to satisfy himself that for him the incident was ended.
With a childlike smile of embarrassment, doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. "And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief passion," said the latter. "My passion! I have had so many," replied Pierre.
I raced by his side in a mood of profound self-derision, and infinitely vexed with that minx. Because dead or alive I thought of her as a minx . . ." I smiled incredulously at Marlow's ferocity; but Marlow pausing with a whimsically retrospective air, never flinched. "Yes, yes. Even dead. And now you are shocked. You see, you are such a chivalrous masculine beggar.
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