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It is a study in eccentric human relations the relations between the captain and the manslayer who comes naked out of the seas as if from nowhere one tropical night, and is huddled away with his secrets in the captain's cabin. It is for the most part a comedy of the abnormal an ironic fable of splendid purposeless fears and risks.
Can't you see that the value of your charms is not in them, but in the imagination of some man?" "I can't answer you," said she. "You've put it all wrong. You oughtn't to ask payment for a favor beyond price." "No, I oughtn't to HAVE to ask," corrected he, in the same pleasantly ironic way. "You ought to have been more than glad to give freely.
And it is meet and right, at such a point as this, to lay our offering, modest, secret, shy a shadow, a nothing at the feet of this gracious Alma Mater; "who needs not June for Beauty's heightening!" One revolts against her sometimes. The charm is too exclusive, too withdrawn. And something what shall I say? of ironic, supercilious disillusion makes her forehead weary, and her eyelids heavy.
And then Sylvia was explicit about it, as something every one was hoping for." "Was that why you went away?" she asked with an intent look into his face. "Because he had a prior claim, and it wouldn't be fair to poach upon his preserves?" He gave an ironic monosyllable laugh. "I tried, for the next few days to bamboozle myself into adopting that explanation but I couldn't.
But she moved her chair after a moment and fixed her gaze, no longer rapt but ironic, on the flaming hillcrests, the long line of California Street, nucleus of the wealth and fashion of San Francisco.
To Westlake, the unwritten No was conveyed in a series of kindly ironic subterfuges, that, played it like an impish flea across the pages, just giving the bloom of the word; and rich smiles come to Emma's life in reading the dexterous composition: which, however, proved so thoroughly to Westlake's taste, that a second and a third exercise in the comedy of the negative had to be despatched to him from Copsley.
I'm going to make you feel that you and you and you can sell!" Mr. Carleton's voice echoed for a moment through the hall and then died away. To the stamping of many feet Anthony was pushed and jostled with the crowd out of the room. With an accompaniment of ironic laughter Anthony told Gloria the story of his commercial adventure. But she listened without amusement.
Carl, though he had primarily intended the singular rig for the eyes of Tregar, had subtly invited the remark. His eyes were darkly ironic. "Prince," he said guilelessly, "it is a silent parable." "Yes?" "I am 'The Ghost of a Man's Past!" explained the Palmer lightly and clanked his chains. The level glances of the two met with the keenness of invisible swords.
"Well, did you have a happy hunt? Was your herb gathering a success?" "Yes, captain," I replied, "but unfortunately we've brought back a horde of bipeds whose proximity worries me." "What sort of bipeds?" "Savages." "Savages!" Captain Nemo replied in an ironic tone. "You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you're surprised to find savages there? Where aren't there savages?
But the sly incarnate devil which lurked in Adams in the form of an ironic spirit asserted itself with an explosion which shook the plethoric gravity with which Perry contemplated an orgy of indigestion.
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