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To my unsuspecting, unenlightened perception, Bourgonef's gaze was simply the melancholy and half-curious gaze which such a man might be supposed to cast upon a young woman who had been made the topic of an interesting discourse. But to my mind, enlightened as to his character, and instructed as to his peculiar feelings arising from his own story, the gaze was charged with horror.
Hannah Yates was more than once nearly run over and driven back to the banks of the highway by those flying vehicles, where she stood half-terrified, half-curious, looking after them in wistful astonishment. What could this tumultuous movement mean? Was it a wedding but of whom? A funeral the old countess? No, no! Destiny could not be so cruel.
You do understand, don't you? I'm not like that all through really." "My darling!" Isabel answered fondly. "Of course I know it. I sometimes think that it would be better for you if you were." "Isabel, why why?" Dinah pressed close to her, half-curious, half-frightened. But Isabel did not answer her.
Two of the little girls had been to the spring after a pail of water, and came struggling out of the woods into the road with it as we passed. They set down their pail and regarded us with a half-curious, half-alarmed look. "What is your teacher's name?" asked one of us.
"I should soon become a popular society physician." But although he spoke lightly, his manner was partly forced and he regarded her furtively. Their brief acquaintance had awakened in him an interest, half-paternal, half-curious.
"Yes, we know that, don't we, J.W.?" and Marty appealed to his chum, remembering the frequent and half-curious talks they had on that very contrast. J.W. said "Sure," but plainly meant to leave the defense of the Christian college to Marty, who, to tell the truth, was quite willing. "There's room for both, and need for both," said that earnest young man.
Did you see anything?" "Aren't you going to look in the pack?" Wabi turned and gazed at his companion with a half-curious hesitating smile. "Anything in it?" he asked suspiciously. "See here, boys," cried Rod, forgetting himself in his suppressed enthusiasm. "I said there was a treasure in that chasm, and there was. I found it. You are welcome to look into that pack if you wish!"
For the rest of the evening the silent presence in the room above affected the household; the half-curious servants and ranch hands spoke in whispers in the passages, and at evening prayers, in the dining room, Seth Rivers, kneeling before and bowed over a rush-bottomed chair whose legs were clutched by his strong hands, included "the stranger within our gates" in his regular supplications.
The woman, a large, fat, lumbering creature, cast a sleepy glance, that was half-curious, half-suspicious, at him and answered: "Yes, Monsieur; but he bade me deny him to everybody." "He will see me, however, my good woman," said M. Dantès. "Take my card to him."
We were still the recipients at their hands of that certain half-curious, half-amused and wholly patronizing inspection which, from the height of their civilization, they might be expected to bestow upon a novel species of humanity, with manners different from their own, but recently sprung into existence and notice and disporting itself in their midst. But this sort of thing has had its day.
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