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By one of the French windows the dragoman Ibrahim was standing, perfectly still now, and looking steadily at her. He held a flower between his teeth, and when he saw that she had seen him, he came gracefully forward, smiling and almost hanging his head, as if in half-roguish deprecation. "What did you say your name was?" Mrs. Armine asked him.
She had not thought to remove it from the place where she had carried it ever since receiving it. 'And now, master Heywood, I may go where I will? said Dorothy, venturing a half-roguish, but wholly shamefaced glance at him. But Dame Upstill was looking on, and Richard therefore brought as much of the midnight as would obey orders, back over his countenance as he answered: 'Nay, mistress.
This was the ladies' parlor, the grand reception-room, also, of any genteel male guest, should one for a wonder appear. Little Laura, however, was no longer as little as she had been, though just as innocent, and ten times as bewitching to most people who knew her. You could not but particularly wish her well, the moment her glad, hopeful, playful, confiding, half-roguish eye met yours.
She had not thought to remove it from the place where she had carried it ever since receiving it. 'And now, master Heywood, I may go where I will? said Dorothy, venturing a half-roguish, but wholly shamefaced glance at him. But Dame Upstill was looking on, and Richard therefore brought as much of the midnight as would obey orders, back over his countenance as he answered: 'Nay, mistress.
Then with a proud, half-roguish expression, she added: "She is so strong, so well, so heavy; she sleeps a great deal, and wakes laughing and hungry." As night fell, an ancient Indian woman came up the companion-way. In her arms she carried a beautifully-woven basket cradle, within which nestled a round-cheeked, smiling-eyes baby.
"At what hour?" said the late soldier, anxiously. "Half-past seven." Michaud gave a half-roguish glance at the general. "By what gate did monsieur leave the park?" he asked. "By the gate of Conches. The keeper, in his night-shirt, looked at me through the window," replied Blondet. "Gaillard had probably just gone to bed," answered Michaud.
It has just that half-roguish, half-loving expression with which he would look at me sometimes, when I would come and brush back his hair and look into his eyes. Every time I go in or out of the room, it seems to give so bright a smile that I almost think that a spirit dwells within it.
She came from Devonshire, from the edge of the moors behind Newton Abbot, where the folks have complexions all cream-and-roses. She'd a figure like a wand for grace, and an eye half-melting, half-roguish.
I was astonished, for I thought she meant cleverness, and I have always been told that I am a dunce; she said that she knew I had good abilities, and that besides I had plenty of other talents nice dress, and good looks." Kitty colored and flashed a half-defiant, half-roguish glance at Mrs. Denvers. "She also spoke about my money as a talent.
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