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You want to hear of Deschamps?" I nodded, half-admiring her perhaps more than half. "She is a woman to fear. I have told you I used to be her maid before I came to mademoiselle, and even I was always afraid of her. But I liked her.
And then the moment of delirium, when the light danced; the one wild act that lifted her, the despised one, above them all made her the supreme figure, to be glanced at by frightened women, stared at by half-startled, half-admiring men! "Yes," she laughed; but struck by the sound of her own voice, moved twice round the cavern nervously, and then dropped again into her old position.
Yes; some day love would come to her. There floated before her brain the adoring look on Daphne Wing's face, the shiver that had passed along her arm, and pitifulness crept into her heart a half-bitter, half-admiring pitifulness. Why should she grudge she who did not love? The sounds, like the humming of large flies, grew deeper, more vibrating.
Vandeloup would have refused, but she had his arm, and as everyone was looking at him, he could not refuse without being guilty of marked discourtesy. Kitty had beaten him with his own weapons, so, with a half-admiring glance at her, he took her back to the ball- room, where the waltz was just ending.
"You ARE a cool one, Mad!" said the latter in half-admiring indignation. "What's up?" said the bewildered Madison. "YOU ought to be, and scootin' out o' this," said Breckenridge grimly. "It's all very well to 'know nothin'; but here Phil Larrabee's friends hev just picked him up, drilled through with slugs and deader nor a crow, and now they're lettin' loose Larrabee's two half-brothers on you.
And then the moment of delirium, when the light danced; the one wild act that lifted her, the despised one, above them all made her the supreme figure, to be glanced at by frightened women, stared at by half-startled, half-admiring men! "Yes," she laughed; but struck by the sound of her own voice, moved twice round the cavern nervously, and then dropped again into her old position.
He thought he had never seen her look so pretty as at that moment, in her trim nautical costume, sitting up there, swinging her feet like a girl, and regarding him with half-mocking, half-admiring eyes. What were they saying? Heaven only knows. What nonsense do people so situated usually talk? Perhaps she was warning him against Miss Tavish.
Never say you "nay," never lose an opportunity, never own he doesn't know, or can't do anything independence, amiability, and an eye to the main chance. We mentioned Pearse's name. "Capt'n Zach'ry Pearse!" They exchanged a look half-amused, half-admiring. "The Zunflaower, yu mane. That's her. Zunflaower, ahoy!" As we mounted the steamer's black side I heard one say: "Pied Witch!
Phil, supremely at ease, heaved a sigh of satisfaction, drawing from the Italian a half-angry, half-admiring glance. "Much easier than I thought," said Quentin, puffing quietly at his cigar. "We did it very nicely," agreed the other, with a brave effort to equal the American's unconcern.
He thought he had never seen her look so pretty as at that moment, in her trim nautical costume, sitting up there, swinging her feet like a girl, and regarding him with half-mocking, half-admiring eyes. What were they saying? Heaven only knows. What nonsense do people so situated usually talk? Perhaps she was warning him against Miss Tavish.
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