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Of all the four, Adderley alone looked back with a half-appealing smile, and received an encouraging little nod for his pains a nod which said 'Yes you can come again if you like! The wheels of the Pippitt equipage crunched heavily down the drive, and as the grating sound died away, clear on the quiet air came the soft slow chime of the church-bells ringing.
Her courage had never been absent. She was less alarmed than before and decidedly curious as to what this encounter might signify. She dared address the horseman. "But but surely you seem You must have some excellent reason for for acting so peculiarly." He could not repress the brightness in his eyes as he met her half-appealing gaze.
She cast a half-appealing look at his face a half-frightened one around the room and at the open door beyond. "Let us," she said faintly, "go into the conservatory." It is but a few years ago that the veracious chronicler of these pages moved with a wondering crowd of sightseers in the gardens of the White House.
I I " He broke off in agitation and sprang impetuously to his feet. With a gesture half-hopeless, half-appealing, he turned and walked to the window, as if he could no longer bear to meet the level, grey eyes that watched him with so kindly a confidence. There fell a silence in the room while Mordaunt, still sitting on the writing-table, deliberately finished his cigarette. That done, he spoke.
Again Barradas looked at him as if he would like to say something more, but Barry's cold, set, and repellent face forbade it. "Well, I think I'll go that far, anyway," said the Spaniard, and then he added nervously, with a half-appealing look to the chief officer, "I suppose you're too tired for a yarn and a smoke?" "I am," replied Barry with studied coolness and without moving his face.
Give it back to me, my dear. "I write," his mother went on, reading very perspicuously and precisely, "from the chair, to which I shall probably be confined for some hours." Septimus looked at the row of chairs against the wall, with a half- protesting and half-appealing countenance.
He said good-bye in a gruffly affectionate way to Peggie, patted her shoulder and her head as if she were a child, and followed the two other men out. Peggie, left alone with Selwood, turned to him. There was something half-appealing in her face, and Selwood suddenly drove his hands deep into his pockets, clenched them there, and put a tight hold on himself.
He had made but a step towards her, and had not even made a step in his mind towards reading the half-shy, half-appealing aspect she wore, when the prim figure of Aunt Rachel appeared from behind her, and the old woman, with defiance expressed in every line and gesture, laid her mit-tened hand on the girl's arm and advanced by her side.
Unfortunately this time, through some heedlessness, the Spirit did not creep out of the frame-work with sufficient care, and some portion of her garments must have caught when she was only on her knees. I never shall forget the half-comic, half-appealing, feminine glance as her eyes looked up into mine, when she was only partially materialized and some plaguey nail had caught her angel robe.
You don't know what mean things I've done, an' I ain't goin' to tell ye, only that I know now I've got to turn straight around an' not do 'em any more. I've got to make a man of myself," he drew himself up as he spoke, "a real man the kind that helps other folks up. I can't say just what I mean, but I feel it myself," he added, with a half-appealing glance at Nan.