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She stood superbly, as a queen might dismiss one from whom her thoughts were already wandering. He bowed, with inward self-mockery, and left her. Some hours later, when already the summer evening had cloaked itself, Wilfrid found himself wandering by the river, not far from Hammersmith.
Misery had its clutch upon him, and he was driven by an inexplicable spirit of self-mockery to burlesque the subject of his unhappiness. He had no sense of responsibility, and certain instincts were strongly excited, making a kind of moral intoxication. Jessie answered his question with wide eyes. 'I couldn't? Ah! She spoke under her breath, and with sincerity which was not a little amusing.
She laughed without mirth, then sighed with some self-mockery. "It frightens ME away from the table." But Scarborough declined her invitation. However, he did come to dinner ten days later; and Gladys, who had no lack of confidence in her power to charm when and whom she chose, was elated by his friendliness then and when she met him at other houses.
But the Sieur d'Arnaye only laughed. "I cannot give my parole," he said, "since I mean to escape for all your brother's care." Then he fell to pacing up and down before her. "Now, by Monseigneur Saint Medard and the Eagle that sheltered him!" he cried, in half-humorous self-mockery; "however thickly troubles rain upon me, I think that I shall never give up hoping!"
She told me to LOOK at her to LOOK at her mouth and chin and eyelashes and to make note of what she stood for in a crowd of ordinary people. I could have laughed aloud with rage and self-mockery." Mr. Penzance was resting his forehead on his hand, his elbow on his chair's arm. "This is profound unhappiness," he said. "It is profound unhappiness." Mount Dunstan answered by a brusque gesture.
"Any intelligent person can learn to act and also most persons who have no more intelligence in their heads than they have in their feet. I'll guarantee you some sort of career. What I'm interested to find out is whether you can learn not to act. I believe you can. But " He laughed in self-mockery.
With a faint smile of self-mockery, she realized that had this flagrant insult been leveled at him in the beginning, had her first knowledge of the black shadow which hung over him been thus brutally flung at her, instead of diffidently, reluctantly broken to her by Elisabeth, she would probably, with the instinctive partisanship of woman for her mate, have utterly refused to credit it against all reason and all proof.
She had to look the future in the face, and prepare to engage in a struggle in which he was determined to come off victorious. From time to time she glanced at Wilhelm, and always found him deep in thought. He was reviewing, with a touch of self-mockery, the latest development of his affairs. Here he was on his way to Paris. He had not chosen this destination.
"You know so much about it," she replied, a faint smile in her dark eyes that had in it something of wistfulness, something of self-mockery. She looked directly at him and let him have it full in the face. "I ought to be ashamed of it, I suppose, but I'm not. I've thought of you that way lots of times. All girls do, when they meet a man they like." "You like me?"
Passing to Spain, Carlyle salutes Cervantes and the Cid, calling Don Quixote the "poetry of comedy," "the age of gold in self-mockery," pays a more reserved tribute to Calderon, ventures on the assertion that Cortes was "as great as Alexander," and gives a sketch, so graphic that it might serve as a text for Motley's great work, of the way in which the decayed Iberian chivalry, rotten through with the Inquisition, broke itself on the Dutch dykes.
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