VROOMAN, VERNON A. The amiable cynic.

I shall become a good-natured cynic; I shall freely admit that I have disturbed the ordinary relations of labor and compensation, but I shall so treat the matter that I shall become the subject of a semi-admiration that will relieve me from social ostracism.

It is true (he admits) that Crates, a celebrated cynic, was married, but it was to a lady as self-denying as himself, and to one who had given up wealth and friends to share hardship and poverty with him.

A Jewish prophet must have seemed a rhapsodist to Athenian critics, and a Grecian philosopher a conceited cynic to a converted fisherman of Galilee,even as a boastful Darwinite would be repulsive to a believer in the active interference of the moral Governor of the universe.

Not all the fashionable cynics her world contained could alter that fact.

His humor and satire are never of the destructive kind; what he does in that way is suggestive only,not breaking bubbles with Thor's hammer, but puffing them away with the breath of a Clown, or shivering them with the light laugh of a genial cynic.

But that this vast landless population in the villages and country districtshungering as it is for some sure tenure and interest in the soilshould actually, as now, be berated and scolded by superior persons of the "upper" classes, and threatened with conscription if it does not "come forward" more readily, is a spectacle sufficient to gratify the most hardened cynic.

George's set us 'collecting' such, with results undreamed of by youthful cynic.

It was you that kept her from being a bitter cynic; you that kept her alive.