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The old quack eased himself into a chair with his fine air of ample leisure, creating for himself a fragrant halo of cigar smoke. "Well, Boyee." The tone was a mingling of warm affection and semi-humorous reproach. "You went and did it to Elias M., didn't you?" "Yes, sir. We went and did it." The Doctor shook his head, looking at the other through narrowing eyes. "And it's worrying you.
Although, in a semi-humorous vein, Schumann repeatedly alludes in these letters to the "foregone conclusion" that they will some day be printed, there is hardly any indication that such a thought was ever in his mind while writing them.
"When Paul and I are together we talk of a new heaven and a new Russia. But it will not come in our time. We are only the sowers, and the harvest is not yet. But I tell Paul that he has not sown wild oats, nor sour grapes, nor thistles." He paused, and the expression of his face changed to one of semi-humorous gravity. "Mademoiselle," he went on, "it has been my lot to love the prince like a son.
She had promised to marry Cutty, promised herself that she would be his true wife and here she was, holding another man's head to her heart as if it were the most precious head in all the world. She could not put that head upon the floor at once; that would be a confession of her embarrassment; and yet she could not continue to hold Hawksley while Cutty eyed her with semi-humorous concern.
She's done very well, and is an instructor in biology in one of the western universities." I was silent a moment. "And you, you never married, did you?" I inquired, somewhat irrelevantly. His semi-humorous gesture seemed to deny that such a luxury was for him. The conversation dragged a little; I began to feel the curiosity he invariably inspired. What was his life? What were his beliefs?
Probably before that very night was over, he would have begun to gather the fruit of his ambition. He had started already to climb the ladder, and he would raise Stella with him, Stella and that other being upon whom he sometimes suffered his thoughts to dwell with a semi-humorous contemplation as his son. A fantastic fascination hung about the thought.
Admonished by his conscience, John's hilarity clouded into a sort of semi-humorous gravity, and he advised Mike on the necessity of reforming his life.
It's grateful, as it well may be, for all the sun has done for it. Look at the color of that marble." And Dion looked at the honey color, and the wonderful reddish-gold, and, laughing, said: "Athens is the one faultless city, and the dogs tell us so every night and all night long." "Dogs always bark when the moon is up," she answered, with a semi-humorous gravity.
Why, even you" and his look challenged Rufus with careless derision "even you have fallen to that temptation before now, or I'm much mistaken. But I gather that your attentions did not meet with a very favourable response." He was baiting the animal now, taunting him, with the semi-humorous malice of the mischievous schoolboy.
She is not fit for work to-night." Mr. Lorimer made an airy gesture expressive of semi-humorous regret. "Discipline, my dear Mrs. Denys, must be maintained at all costs even among the members of your charming sex. As a matter of fact, I am waiting to administer punishment to one of my sons at the present moment for an act of disobedience."
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