Irony meant intellect; mere scorn or pride might signify anything but that.

And he was hoping to find reserves of power in her, such as would rescue her from the imputation of commonplaceness in her beliefs.

Testing her with his eye, he answered meaningly: "Not, I admit, on the ground of recognized success." Miriam made a nervous movement, and her brows contracted.

Without looking at him, she said, in a voice which seemed rather to resent his interpretation than to be earnest in deprecating it: "You know, Mr.Mallard, that I meant nothing of the kind." "Yet I could have understood you, if you had.

Naturally you must wonder a little at a man's passing his life as I do.