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She was not, however, quite prepared for what she saw; and the quick, curious, half-admiring gleam which shot into her eye told that she had not failed to acknowledge the exceeding loveliness of that fair face, and the natural grace and dignity displayed in the young wife's attitude.
With a searching study of her face to note the slightest change, he enumerated: "Was it Cyril, then? Will? Aunt Hannah? Kate? It couldn't have been Pete, or Dong Ling!" Billy still smiled inscrutably. At no name had Bertram detected so much as the flicker of an eyelid; and with a glance half-admiring, half-chagrined, he fell back into his chair. "I'll give it up. You've won," he acknowledged.
Swiftly the news ran like an electric current through the whole body of the populace, that it was Lotys, their own Lotys, their friend, their fellow-worker, the idol of the poorer classes, that had saved the life of the King! Half-incredulous, half-admiring, the mob listened to the growing rumour, and the general excitement increased in intensity among them.
When he died, there was the same gloom as when my father left us; but it seemed to me that I was treated a little differently; the servants stared at me, my mother would look long at me with a half-admiring, half-amused expression, and Victoria let me have all her toys. "Kings must not snatch, Augustin." "Victoria, what do you get when you are a king?" I asked my sister that night.
The girl looked at the daintily gloved hand held out to her, colored faintly, and put her own within it. "I thank you for your goodness," said she, surveying with half-sad, half-admiring glances, the somewhat pale face of the beautiful brunette. "And you will yield to our united requests?"
The Abbe surveyed him with something of a quizzical half-admiring smile, then addressing the gendarmes he said, "Let him go!" The men looked up astonished, doubting whether they had heard aright. "Let him go!" repeated the Abbe firmly, "I have no accusation to make against him. Had he killed me he would have been perfectly justified! Let him go!"
I bade him good night, and returned home, half-admiring The Giant and his troop, and abusing the foolish parsimony of the merchant, who ought to have thrown a few lumps of flesh to these hungry and wolfish sons of The Desert, and satisfied them at once. One of the party was Hateetah's brother; and Hateetah told me next day that he himself sent them. 2nd.
Formerly she had been noted for her amiability, for her vanity easily pleased with a careless compliment from no matter whom a jocose, half-drunken ash man, half-jeering, half-admiring from his cart seat quite as satisfactory as anybody.
There are no gloves on her hands; a few minutes elapsed then before the assault; long enough for her to take them off." "Smart woman!" whispered a voice in my ear; a half-admiring, half-sarcastic voice that I had no difficulty in ascribing to Mr. Gryce. "But are you sure she wore any? Did you notice that her hand was gloved when she came into the house?"
He sat watching Arabian with a hostile, and yet half-admiring, scrutiny, smoking rapidly, nervously, and twisting his large hands about. Presently Miss Van Tuyn got up to go. "Going already?" said Garstin. "Yes, I must." "Oh, well " "I will accompany you," said Arabian. She looked away from him and said nothing. Garstin went with them downstairs and opened the door.
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