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It was like like like jasmine that was it jasmine and out of the jasmine face the great gaze she had met in the morning turned half-puzzled, half-disappointed upon the growing group of girls examining the watch. Miriam paid her first visit to a German church the next day, her third Sunday.
Still less feasible is it in a crowded street; so, though Cecil at once recognised the handwriting of Du Meresq, it had to be consigned to the saddle-pocket till the traffic was threaded, and she had entered on a quiet corduroy road by the lake. Then she opened it with a flattering feeling of expectation, and was half-disappointed at its calm commencement.
"Aren't sunfish good?" he inquired anxiously. Captain Marsh opened his mouth to reply, caught Bobby's apprehensive and half-disappointed expression, and thought better of it. "Why, sure!" said he. "They're a fine fish." At the end of an hour Bobby had acquired a goodly string. Captain Marsh early drew in his line, saying he preferred to smoke. Bobby had an excellent time.
I'm getting tired of these dirty old cards." She stood up and sidled past the desk. Kennon resisted the impulse to slap as she went past, and congratulated himself on his self-control as she looked at him with a half-disappointed expression on her face. She had expected it, he thought gleefully. Score one for morality. He smiled. Whatever the other Lani might be, Copper was different.
Truth is truth; and so I answer, in a low voice: "No, father said I was to." "And you look upon it as a great penance?" he says, still with that half-disappointed accent. "To be sure I do," reply I, briskly. "So does Barbara. Ask her if she does not. So would you, if you were I." "And why?" "Hush!" say I, hearing a certain heavy, well-known, slow footfall. "He is coming!
Two minutes later and Thad gave vent to an ejaculation. "It's all up now, Hugh!" he said, in a half-disappointed tone. "What is?" demanded his comrade wonderingly. "The Chief has arrested Tip Slavin, I mean. He must have heard what Owen Dugdale had to say about meeting Tip Slavin smoking a cigarette on the road to the mill-pond, and set a trap for him.
Nothing could have come amiss to the doctor in that dawn of happiness. He could have found it in his heart to mount his drag again and drive ten miles in celestial patience at the call of any capricious invalid. He was half-disappointed to find no summons awaiting him when he went home no outlet for the universal charity and loving-kindness that possessed him.
Taking his place in the motley assemblage, he bid quietly, steadily, until at last Mosside, with its appurtenances, belonged ostensibly to him, and the half-glad, half-disappointed people wondered greatly who Mr. Jacob Liston could be, or from what quarter of the globe he had suddenly dropped into their midst.
The early struggles for Italian unity left many such half-disappointed patriots, and many less fortunate in their subsequent lives than Horace.
When she had served him she sidled back to Gard's table with a doubting, half-disappointed air. "You're fooling me." She stuck her tongue out on her upper lip in peasant bashfulness. "No, I'll be there as sure as I'm now paying for the ticket." He filled her fat hand with the coins which it could hardly hold. She went away happy.
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