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She did not retreat, but continued looking at him in a half-surly embarrassment. "I ain't a bit frightened," she said; "I'm not going to run away, don't you fear." "Glad to hear it," said Lance, with unmistakable satisfaction, "but why did you go for my revolver?" She flushed again and was silent.
Ganew assented with a half-surly civility to Elder Kinney's proposition to ride down with him. "I've got a matter of business to talk over with you, Mr. Ganew," said the Elder, "and I came up here on purpose to find you." The man turned his stolid black eyes full on the Elder, but made no reply. It was indeed an evil face.
She always met the request with the same frown of well-simulated annoyance, which presently dissolved in a kind of half-humorous, half-surly shrug, as of a large dog tormented by children who shakes his ears. She would lend her room, but only on condition that all the arrangements were made by her.
"Anything the matter, father?" she whispered; but he only gave his head a half-surly shake, and then fastened his eyes straight ahead upon the pulpit. He had reason to that day, for his only son, Thomas, was going to preach his first sermon therein as a candidate. His wife ascribed his nervousness to that. She put a peppermint in her own mouth and sucked it comfortably.
I should have to put a good face on the matter, and allow him to join me, or rather I should have to join him myself, if I did not wish to sleep in the open air and with an empty stomach, and so I went up to him, and asked my way in a half-surly manner.
"Ah, my girl, you wait a bit!" she murmured. "You've met your match, or I'm much mistaken." The squire was smoking his morning pipe in a sheltered corner. He looked round with his usual half-surly expression as his daughter joined him. She came to him very quietly and put her hand on his arm. "Well?" he said gruffly.
The man, toiling painfully along that hard road, on that bitter day, with hands and feet half frost-bitten, and face smarting as if with fire, his aching lungs straining with the icy air, felt that he and the woman struggling over the same road had common cause for wrath against this stress of nature, and so made that half-surly, half-sympathetic grunt as he passed her. But she did not respond.
She did not retreat, but continued looking at him in a half-surly embarrassment. "I ain't a bit frightened," she said; "I'm not going to run away, don't you fear." "Glad to hear it," said Lance, with unmistakable satisfaction, "but why did you go for my revolver?" She flushed again and was silent.
He returned Keith's greeting in the half-surly way in which he had always received his advances since the day of the row; but when Keith sat down on the bed and began to talk to him cheerily of his daring in climbing where no one else had ventured to go, he thawed out, and presently, when Keith drifted on to other stories of daring, he began to be interested, and after a time grew almost friendly.
He wagged an ingratiating tail at her approach. It was evident that in her hand the whip had no terrors for him. He crept fawning to her feet. She stooped over him, fondling his head. "Oh, poor boy! Poor boy!" she said. The dog's master came and stood beside her. "He'll be all right," he said, in a tone of half-surly apology. "I'm afraid Mike has bitten him," she said.
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