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From where he stood he could see with intolerable anguish the somber rings around her eyes and the violet shadows on the lids, her folded hands and the straight, meek line to the feet. And her poor wan face with its wistful, pitiful little smile was turned half-aside on the delicate throat, as if in a last appeal: Leave me now, O Florentines, to my rest. Poor child! Poor child!

My father sat half-aside in his elbow-chair, that his head might be turned from me: his hands clasped, and waving, as it were, up and down; his fingers, poor dear gentleman! in motion, as if angry to the very ends of them. My sister was swelling. My brother looked at me with scorn, having measured me, as I may say, with his eyes as I entered, from head to foot.

It's no use your looking amused, because that doesn't do any good." After which little preliminary skirmish she came to the point, speaking to Gwen in a half-aside, as to a fellow-citizen in contradistinction to an outcast, her father. "Why should not your old woman be put up at Mrs. Marrable's? They do this sort of thing there. However, perhaps Mrs. Marrable is full up."

With her face turned quickly half-aside, she saw him stop suddenly as if halted by the same feeling that had so moved her. For a full minute he stood there as if questioning his senses. The girl sat very still. Once she thought he would turn back then he came on eagerly, as he had come that day from the water when he had looked up to see her on the river bank.

While he was untying the drawstring of his gold sack, Maudie said, half-aside, but whether to the Colonel or the Boy neither could tell: "Might do worse than keep your eye on Si McGinty." She nodded briskly at the violet checks on the mackinaw back. "Si's got a cinch up there on Glory Hallelujah, and nobody's on to it yet." The pianola picked out a polka.

He's got a hundred thousand dollars in sight, only waitin' for runnin' water to wash it out." "Then there is gold about here?" "There is gold? Say, Maudie," he remarked in a humourous half-aside to the young woman who was passing with No thumb-Jack, "this fellow wants to know if there is gold here." She laughed. "Guess he ain't been here long."

He understands his slip more clearly when the servant, speaking half-aside, but audibly, to the Countess, says: "Mrs. Masham said the blue was spoiled for four, my lady, and to bring four of the China." Crown Derby is more distinctly China in English vernacular than Nankin blue.

Fo w'at you come in yeh?" "My dear madam! My husband" "Dass you' uzban'?" pointing at him. "Yes!" cried the two Richlings at once. The woman folded her arms again, turned half-aside, and, lifting her eyes to the ceiling, simply remarked, with an ecstatic smile: "Humph!" and left the pair, red with exasperation, to find the street again through the darkening cave of the stair-way.