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She smiled oddly, with a half-whimsical, wholly feminine bit of malice. Her eyes seemed dancing. "I'm afraid I can't obey you, sir," she proffered. "You can see for yourself, it can't be done." A dull, angry flush crept over the Master's rather pale face, and lost itself in the roots of his thick, black hair.
For the difference between Pepys and Shelley, to return to that half-whimsical approximation, is one of quality but not one of degree; in his sphere, Pepys felt as keenly, and his is the true prose of poetry prose because the spirit of the man was narrow and earthly, but poetry because he was delightedly alive.
"Oh you!" broke from her in mingled terror and admiration; and pausing on her doorstep to lay her hand in his before she touched the bell, she added with a half-whimsical flash of regret: "Why didn't this happen to Fanny Frisbee?" Why had it not happened to Fanny Frisbee?
Melhuish interfered? Why, this is the first time I've seen him since last night at the dance. Besides," she glanced at me with a half-whimsical touch of apology, "I hardly know him." "Oh! it's some romantic rot of his, I suppose," Jervaise returned sullenly. "I never thought it was serious." "But," Anne interposed, "it sounds very serious...if Mr.
If you try to make mischief he will kill you." "Ah," said Courthorne quietly. "Well, it wouldn't be very astonishing if he attempted it, and nobody would blame him; but I have, as it happens, no intention of provoking him. After all, it was my fault, and you were too good for me, Ailly." He stopped a moment and smiled, for there was in him a certain half-whimsical cruelty.
In time Joyselle would learn to evade these pitfalls, with which their future seemed to bristle, but as yet he was so unused to avoiding things in his path that it was almost a miracle that she had, as she put it with a half-whimsical, half-despairing smile, got him safely home without an outburst.
"I think it's the most wildly innocent expression of extreme joy in the world. And yet" her expressive face changed, and into her prominent brown eyes there stole a half-whimsical, half-earnest look "at the end Maurice, do you know that I was almost frightened that day at the end?" "Frightened! Why?" he said. He got up from the terrace-seat and sat down in a straw chair.
Eighteen months after his re-establishment at Ophir he was commissioned to go to Alaska to examine certain mining properties in a deal involving over a million dollars, and, anxious to be on the ground as early as possible, he took the first boat north that season. His story was published on the eve of his departure. He received a few copies, which he regarded with a half-fond, half-whimsical air.
He walked straight toward the veranda, and Mrs. Acton, sitting still, favoured him with a very keen and careful scrutiny. He was dressed in light flannels, which, she admitted, became him rather well; but it was the lithe gracefulness of his movements that she noticed most. His easy, half-whimsical manner had their effect on her; they won her favour.
For a few moments there was silence in the little dark-walled room. Then he turned and looked down into Anne's sympathetic face with a smile, half-whimsical, half-tender. "I wonder how much you know," he said. "I know all about it," replied Anne promptly. "You see," she explained hastily, "Miss Lavendar and I are very intimate. She wouldn't tell things of such a sacred nature to everybody.
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