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And before he could protest again, Mrs Halloran had thrust her way into the room and stood curtseying, with tears of recent weeping upon her homely and extremely dirty face. Behind her shuffled a lanky, sheepish-eyed boy, and took up his stand at her shoulder with a look half-sullen, half-defiant.
She darted forward, clapped her hands together once, and then in rapid succession three or four times. Then rolling triumphantly something between her thumb and forefinger, she turned to Lydia. The little operation had not taken the third of a moment, but the change in the girl's face was so great that Mrs. Mortimer was moved to hasty, half-shamefaced, half-defiant apology.
As for Lancelot, he must have a beard. A beard? The word struck me, and without knowing why I glanced across the room at my bearded friend on the sofa. Oddly enough he was looking at me, with a half-defiant, half-sullen expression; and as our glances crossed, and his fell, the conviction came to me that he was Lancelot.
There she stood, with a light, white garment thrown about her, erect, half-defiant, half yielding to her fear, more graceful than any Greek statue, her arms outstretched, yet motionless, and her eyes upcast, as if praying to her God to protect her.
Were it not for a half-defiant, half-sullen dread of the coming night, he might have put it from his mind in spite of the slowly increasing nervous tension and the steady dull consciousness of desire. He drew another Sirdar from his case and sat staring at the rain-smeared night, twisting the frail fragrant cigarette to bits between his fingers.
Wendover, said Elsmere, with a bright half-defiant accent, 'can't make grubbing among the Franks his main business. The squire said nothing, and smoked on. Robert gathered that his companion thought his chances of doing anything worth mentioning very small. 'Oh no, he said, following out his own thought with a shake of his curly hair; 'of course I shall never do very much.
"I er I am anxious for a guide, some one who knows Egypt well, and several languages," she desperately blurted out, looking like a half-frightened, half-defiant child. "I thought " "There are plenty of dragomans, Madame," Green Turban reminded her. "I can recommend you several." "I don't want a regular dragoman," she said. "And I'm not 'Madame. I am Miss Gilder." "Indeed?"
Listen to my creed, Martin, and take notes, if you want to keep up with me." "Go ahead," he said, watching the sparkle in her eyes. She squared her shoulders and folded her arms in a half-defiant way. "I shall open the door of every known Blue Room hurrying out again if there are ugly things inside, staying to enjoy them if they're good to look at.
I'm after that gold, and, in order to get it, I'm quite ready to repeat my previous offer. We each seem to have something that the other lacks. You can tell me many things I don't know. Of that I'm sure." "There's a lot of things you seem sure of," Cumshaw said with a half-defiant air. "I'm as sure that you're the man who was with Bradby as if I'd seen it all myself," Bryce stated.
The two men stood a moment facing each other with the same half-defiant, half-puzzled look they had exchanged at that other meeting, not so long ago. Christie was the first to break the silence. "There wa' n't never much love lost between Eliza and me," he remarked, as if pursuing a train of thought that had been interrupted.
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