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They stood looking thus at one another for nearly half-a-minute, at the end of which she said in a questioning tone: "You have something to tell me Monsieur?" He falteringly replied: "I am M. Hautot's son." She gave a start, turned pale, and stammered out as If she had known him for a long time: "Monsieur César?" "Yes." "And what next?" "I have come to speak to you on the part of my father."
Laura's eyes lingered on it half-a-minute. "Has he not drawn his sword? He is going to march," said Vittoria. "Oh, yes," Laura replied coolly; "but you put that to please Countess Ammiani." Vittoria confessed she had not written it purposely to defend the king. "What harm?" she asked. "None. Only this playing with shades allows men to call us hypocrites." The observation angered Vittoria.
Susan, angered past the power of reasonable speech, remained silent for half-a-minute, holding the back of a chair with both hands, and looking gravely into Ella's face. "Is that all?" she asked mildly. "Except that I'm surprised at you," Ella said a little nettled.
"Georgey didn't say anything of you in her letter, Merthyr; I am going up to her, but I wished to satisfy myself that you were in town, first: to save half-a-minute, you see I anticipate the philosophic manly sneer. Is it really true that you are going to mix yourself up in this mad Italian business again?
Feeling will be the best guide, but even a dip of half-a-minute will do good. In regard to the actual birth, we repeat that those concerned should see to the attendance of a really skilful medical man. Chloroform in the hands of such a doctor is of immense value, but in unskilful hands it is dangerous.
Moreover, there appeared two wines, sherry and claret. 'Did you ever try this kind of thing? said the hostess finally, reaching a box of cigarettes. 'I? Of course not, Nancy replied, with a laugh. 'It's expected of a sensible woman now-a-days. I've got to like it. Better try; no need to make yourself uncomfortable. Just keep the smoke in your mouth for half-a-minute, and blow it out prettily.
I'll go up the hill and take some food to your man." "You're a good fellow," said Smith, dropping into a capacious arm-chair. Mrs. Daventry arranged a cushion behind his head, Miss Bunce placed a stool for him to stretch his legs on, and in half-a-minute he was fast asleep. "Don't wake him for an hour," said Mr. Daventry, as he left the house; "I'll see that all is ready for him."
From the same direction down the dell they could now hear the whistling creak of cranks, repeated at intervals of half-a-minute, with a sousing noise between each: a creak, a souse, then another creak, and so on continually. 'Now if anybody could make shift to live through the other sounds, these would finish him off, don't you think so, miss?
He wore a light check suit, a light-blue tie knotted through a "Mizpah" ring, a white straw hat with a blue ribbon, and two finger-rings set with sham diamonds altogether the sort of outfit that its owner would probably have described as "rather nobby." Feeling that just now it needed a few repairs, he opened the bag, pulled out a duster and flicked away for half-a-minute at his brown boots.
March 3. I set about clearing my desk of unanswered letters, which I had suffered to accumulate to an Augean heap. I daresay I wrote twenty cards that might have been written at the time without half-a-minute being lost. To do everything when it ought to be done is the soul of expedition. But then, if you are interrupted eternally with these petty avocations, the current of the mind is compelled to flow in shallows, and you lose the deep intensity of thought which alone can float plans of depth and magnitude. I sometimes wish I were one of those formalists who can assign each hour of the day its special occupations, not to be encroached upon; but it always returns upon my mind that I do better
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