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But she only said in self-mockery, and speaking to him as though he had been sane, "Why, Captain Hagberd, your son may not even want to look at me." He flung his head back and laughed his throaty affected cackle of anger. "What! That boy? Not want to look at the only sensible girl for miles around? What do you think I am here for, my dear my dear my dear?... What? You wait. You just wait.
And as though in self-mockery, as though wishing in one moment to plumb the very depths of all possible degradation, madness and shame, the crowd cries out, sobs, and demands with a thousand voices of wild beasts and men: "Release unto us Barabbas! But crucify Him! Crucify Him!" But the Roman had evidently not yet said his last word.
"If it was to tell her he was dead," began Mrs. Lapham absently. "How easy it would be!" cried the girl in self-mockery. "But he's worse than dead to her; and so am I. I've turned it over a million ways, mother; I've looked at it in every light you can put it in, and I can't make anything but misery out of it.
He shook his head. It could not go on indefinitely. The role was too hard to play; the dual life, in a sort of grim, ironical self-mockery, brought even in its own successful interpretation added dangers and perils with each succeeding day.
But when we came out the self-mockery with which life is apt to recover itself from any exaltation began. In returning from the Pincio the only cab we had been able to get was the last left of the very worst cabs in Rome, and we had bidden the driver wait for us at the church-steps, not without some hope that he would play us false.
Mildred was beside herself with a kind of rage that, because outlet was necessary and because raving against the little general would be absolutely futile, found outlet in self-mockery and reckless sarcasm. "I understand about the jewels, too," she went on. "They are not mine. Nothing is mine. Everything, including myself, belongs to him.
'Oh yes, I've plenty left for you, said Miss Grizel. And, in thinking over his expression as he had left her, the smile, its self-mockery, yet its lack of bitterness, his courage, and yet the frankness of his disarray, she felt that she liked Gerald more than she had ever liked him. 'Why, yes, of course I can see you.
He called on the rival surgeon to beg him to undertake the management of Mr Donne's recovery, saying, with his usual self-mockery, "I could not answer it to Mr Cranworth if I had brought his opponent round, you know, when I had had such a fine opportunity in my power.
Her father man of rock had never needed her, whereas Hoddy, even if he did not love her, would always be needing her. Love stories!... A sob rushed into her throat, and to smother it she buried her face in a pillow. Spurlock, filled with self-mockery, sat in a chair on the west veranda. The chair had extension arms over which a man might comfortably dangle his legs.
Age, if properly met and suitably faced that is, with dignity and self-respect, such as Adela Sellingworth undoubtedly shows has no reason for self-mockery; whereas youth, although charming and delightful might well laugh occasionally at its own foolishness." "Ah, but it never does!"
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