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"Oh!" cried Margaret, stung; and I could see she thought I was talking mere wickedness. "That's it," I said. "But would you have people drink whatever they pleased?" "Certainly. What right have I to dictate to other men and women?" "But think of the children!" "Ah! there you have the folly of modern Liberalism, its half-cunning, half-silly way of getting at everything in a roundabout fashion.
Nokes first walked off, sloping out from the veranda in a half-shy, half-cunning manner, looking nowhither, and saying a word to no one. Quickly after him Boscobel jumped up suddenly, hitched up his trowsers, and followed the first man. At about a similar interval Jerry passed out through the big room to the yard at the back, and from the yard to a shed that was used as a shambles.
Shock looked up at me in a curious half-cunning way, as he beat out his clay into a broad sheet; and then, as if about to make a pudding, he made the hedgehog into a long ball, laid it on the clay, and covered it up, rolling it over and over till there was nothing visible but a clay ball. "What a baby you are, Shock, playing at making mud puddings!" I said.
The girl stared hard at Dalrymple, and her mouth laughed wickedly at his evident embarrassment, while there was something very different from laughter in her eyes. During the long speech, Sora Nanna had stopped knitting, and she looked from her daughter to the Scotchman with a sort of half-stupid, half-cunning curiosity. "But these are sins!" she exclaimed at last.
"Well, accidents will happen," I said; "but they were certainly going much too fast." "Accidents!" he repeated bitterly; "this warn't no accident. They done it a purpose the dirty Dutchmen." "Sunk you deliberately!" exclaimed Tommy. "What on earth makes you think that?" A kind of half-cunning, half-cautious look came into our visitor's face.
"Oh, it's you!" she exclaimed, looking over his shoulder to see if Kenneth were following. "Where is your master?" A curious expression, half-defiant, half-cunning, came over the servant's face, as he replied: "Monsieur coming. He sent me ahead with light baggage. He detained at customs." "Oh!" she exclaimed, disappointed. "When will he be here?" "He come presently perhaps quarter of an hour."
Malcourt looked at him, the ever-latent mockery flickering in his eyes; then, by degrees, his head bent forward in the old half-cunning, half-wistful attitude as though listening. A vague smile touched the pallor of his face, and he presently looked up with something of his old debonair impudence.
The patrician suspended his purpose as he heard it, mechanically listening with the half-stupid, half-cunning attention of intoxication. 'Help! help! shrieked the voice beneath the palace windows 'he follows me still he attacked my dead child in my arms!
Woffington looked after him with interest, for this confirmed her suspicions; but suddenly her expression changed, she wore a look we have not yet seen upon her it was a half-cunning, half-spiteful look; it was suppressed in a moment, she gave herself to her book, and presently Sir Charles Pomander sauntered into the room. "Ah! what, Mrs. Woffington here?" said the diplomat.
'Of course, or I should not have bespoken your sympathy. My cousin used to like him, but somehow he has fallen out of favour with her. 'Was he absent some time? asked he, with a half-cunning manner. 'Yes, I believe there was something of that in it. He was not here for a considerable time, and when we saw him again, we almost owned we were disappointed.
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