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Such moments snatched from the heart of pressing anxieties are made doubly sweet by their sharp contrast with a background of trouble. They sat there, these two, hand locked in hand, saying little, satisfied now to be with each other and their new-found love. The time flew by far too fast, till at last Sir Charles, with a half-laugh, suggested: "Do you know, dearest Countess "
After this he lived in solitude, and went to see his neighbours, whom he abused behind their backs and even to their faces, and who welcomed him with a kind of constrained half-laugh, though he did not inspire them with any serious dread. He never took a book in his hand. He had about a hundred serfs; his peasants were not badly off. 'Ah!
"Why, this is better than the turning tables," said I, with a half-laugh; and as I laughed, my dog put back his head and howled. F , coming back, had not observed the movement of the chair. He employed himself now in stilling the dog.
He left a bodyguard of five or six well-armed men outside, among whom I saw Bob Hampton, and I felt so enraged against him that I fixed him with my eye, but he seemed in no wise abashed, looking boldly back at me, and giving me quite a friendly nod. "Treacherous brute!" I muttered, and turned away to find Jarette looking at me searchingly. "Not dead yet then?" he said, with a half-laugh.
She would think I had deceived her. And, love apart, how can I leave her whose only protector I have killed? That deed puts me in his place; so love and duty are at one for once. Her Balder, her God, she calls me. She is my universe; the depth and limit of my knowledge and power are gauged by her. Such is the issue of my aspirations!" He breathed out a half-laugh, ending in a sigh.
In an hour's time the "Bertha Millner" was high and dry, and they could examine her at their leisure. It was Moran who found the leak. "Pshaw!" she exclaimed, with a half-laugh, "we can stick that up in half an hour." A single plank had started away from the stern-post; that was all. Otherwise the schooner was as sound as the day she left San Francisco.
She gurgled out a half-sob, half-laugh, as the little one pulled and pushed at his face, which he twisted this way and that, to get her hand in his mouth. "She always cared more for you than she did for me. I'll set you a piece, Laban; I was just going to get me a bite of something; I don't take my meals very regular, with you not here."
Peg touched him timidly and peered up into his face. She thought his cheeks were wet. But that could not be. She had never seen her father cry. "What are ye thinkin' about, father?" she whispered. His voice broke. He did not want her to see his emotion. He answered with a half-laugh, half-sob: "Thinkin' about, is it?
The next instant there was a dull thud, and the Spaniard fell heavily in the doorway, while Pen stood breathing hard, shaking his now open hand, which was rapidly growing discoloured. "Has he cut you, comrade?" cried Punch in a husky voice. "No. All right!" panted Pen with a half-laugh. "It's only the skin off his teeth. I hit first," But he muttered to himself, "Cowardly brute! It was very near.
You've lost the other." It was exasperating. "Then I would back them, if I could, and tail the heaviest hawser on board on the end of the chain before letting go, and if she parted from that, which is quite likely, I would just do nothing. She would have to go." "Nothing more to do, eh?" "No, sir. I could do no more." He gave a bitter half-laugh. "You could always say your prayers."
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