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In spirit he yearned once more to see their plumes and gleaming equipment come dancing down the sunny wind, and to hear the grand thunder of their charge, which but the other day he had been half-inclined to call stale and unprofitable.
The Spider's proffer of work was accepted, but Pete asserted that he would not leave Showdown until he had got his horse. "I'll see that you get him," said The Spider. "Thanks. But I aim to git him myself." And it was shortly after this understanding that Pete sat in the patio back of the saloon waiting impatiently for Malvey to show up, and half-inclined to go out and look for him.
A fortnight before, Sir Oswald would have flung such a letter as this away from him with indignant scorn; but the poison of suspicion had done its corroding work. For a little time Sir Oswald hesitated, half-inclined to despise the mysterious warning.
He was half-inclined to add further resentment, but, second thoughts prevailing, he abruptly turned to the door and hammered on it as though anticipating stern resistance from those within. Inside the house Mrs. Ransford was debating the situation with her mistress.
"It might only make me more dizzy." The flattened figure behind them wriggled noiselessly along. "Just listen to the water," continued Hazelton. "Tom, I'm half-inclined to think that the water is roughening." "I believe it is," agreed Tom. "Fine time we'll have getting back, if a gale springs up from the southward," muttered Harry.
Royalty was introduced and smiled both upon the beauty and the beauty's delicate and becoming dress; and still Rose, though a good deal more flushed and erect than usual, and though flesh and blood could not resist the contagious pleasure which glistened even in the eyes of that sage Agnes, was more than half-inclined to say with the Preacher, that all was vanity.
On three occasions the same friendly disposition was shown; and when we went round the west side of the Lake in order to examine the arm or branch above referred to, the headman at the confluence of the Lofu protested so strongly against my going the Arabs had been fighting, and I might be mistaken for an Arab, and killed that I felt half-inclined to believe him.
"Not a bit of it, lad; but it's certain there's trouble of some kind at Barry St. Leger's quarters, an' I'm of the mind to find out, if you an' Jacob want to stir yourselves a bit." "How do you count on doin' it?" I asked in surprise, half-inclined to believe the old man was joking.
As she stood there she was half-inclined then and there to challenge fate, and to force from him the words that he withheld. Then, with a great effort, she checked the surging impulses, and gave a tremulous laugh. "That is too bad of you," she cried.
There certainly seemed some mystery surrounding the circumstances, and my interest in the yacht and its owner deepened each hour. How, I wondered, had the captain received that very ugly wound across the cheek? I was half-inclined to inquire of him, but on reflection decided that it was best to betray no undue curiosity.
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