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Miss Toland said, looking from one to the other, with her half-vexed and half-approving laugh. "What do you want to name her that for?" "I know what for," Julia smiled, as she watched the pink blanket out of sight. A little later Mrs. Toland crept in, just for a kiss, and a whimpered, "And now you must forget all the pain, dear, and just be happy!" Then Julia was left to her own thoughts.
So he ran on at last all the faster, thinking he was bewitched, till he got within sight of his home, and there, coming to meet him, was his mother, with a look on her face half-pleased, half-vexed. "She's gone, Robin," she called out, "the pretty baby's gone. But there's no call to be afraid for her.
He could not keep from continually touching her comb, her rings, her fichu; sometimes he gave her great sounding kisses with all his mouth on her cheeks, or else little kisses in a row all along her bare arm from the tip of her fingers up to her shoulder, and she put him away half-smiling, half-vexed, as you do a child who hangs about you.
He laughed off the question, not understanding how or why she came to put it, and their talk passed to a lighter vein. But presently he said, with a half-embarrassed, half-vexed laugh, "Need we sit so far from one another?" May had suffered from a dread of the beginning of sentiment. But she was laughing as she rose and, crossing the room, sat down by him on the sofa.
Of course, I always buy something, too, unless I am deep in that state of temporary poverty that lies in wait for me at the end of every month." "Of course you do," agreed Grace, with an answering chuckle. "Even though it is a hat and you feel obliged to dispose of it before going home, so that the Morton House girls won't laugh at you." "Who told you about it?" asked Arline in a half-vexed tone.
Will you tell Baker to come tomorrow to talk it over with me? If we are to have a house party, I should like to put him to work on it at once." Noble gave her a glance, half-humorous, half-vexed. "Do you know I am rather disappointed?" he said. "I had almost hoped that, just for once, you know, you would be a little bit foolish."
As they do not obey, and in addition fall to quarrelling among themselves over him, half-vexed, he repels them and is turning for retreat, when a voice is heard from a blossoming thicket near-by: "Parsifal! Stay!..." The flowers, startled, at once hold still. The youth stands still, too, struck.
With a half-vexed laugh and somewhat heightened color she answered, "I imagine you won't have me all to yourself long." She had hardly spoken the words before the children bounded in, exclaiming, "Now, Aunt Annie, for our stories." "You see, Mr. Gregory, here are previous and counter-claims already." "I wish I knew of some way of successfully disputing them." "It would be difficult to find.
I encouraged my comrades by telling them that the lake was between us and that, and not more than half a mile distant. We soon reached the bottom, where we found a small stream and quite an extensive alder swamp, evidently the ancient bed of a lake. I explained to my half-vexed and half-incredulous companions that we were probably above the lake, and that this stream must lead to it.
I said the baroness would be annoyed with you for descending from your dignity and exposing a noble family to fleas hush! here he is." "Tiresome!" muttered Rose, "just when" Edouard came forward with a half-vexed face. However, he turned it off into play. "What have you been saying to her, monsieur, to interest her so? Give me a leaf out of your book. I need it."
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