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It was pleasant to see Dot, with her little figure, and her baby in her arms: a very doll of a baby: glancing with a coquettish thoughtfulness at the fire, and inclining her delicate little head just enough on one side to let it rest in an odd, half-natural, half-affected, wholly nestling and agreeable manner, on the great rugged figure of the Carrier.
It was pleasant to see Dot, with her little figure and her baby in her arms: a very doll of a baby: glancing with a coquettish thoughtfulness at the fire, and inclining her delicate little head just enough on one side to let it rest in an odd, half-natural, half-affected, wholly nestling and agreeable manner, on the great rugged figure of the Carrier.
It was empty; so this tall, thin man with the slightly stooping shoulders threw himself into a wicker-work easy-chair, and let his eyes which were much keener than was properly compatible with the half-affected expression of indolence that had become habitual to him roam over the heterogeneous collection of articles around.
The fact that a man of Grant's secure position had interested himself in this matter would secure him from the working of that personal vulgar jealousy which his humbler antecedents had provoked. And if, as he fancied, Grant really cared for Clementina "As you like," he said, with half-affected lightness, "and now let us talk of something else.
"That means, I suppose, Mr. Brant, that YOU no longer care for her?" The smile had passed, yet she spoke now with a half-real, half-affected archness that was also unlike her. "It means," said Clarence with a white face, but a steady voice, "that I care for her now as much as I ever cared for her, no matter to what folly it once might have led me.
As she said this she placed her arm within mine. I thought, too, perhaps it was but a thought, she pressed me gently. I know she blushed and turned away her head to hide it. "I don't pretend to be proof to your entreaty, Cousin Baby," said I, with half-affected gallantry, putting her fingers to my lips. "There, how can you be so foolish; look at William yonder; I am sure he must have seen you!"
But Janet doesn't want a strange story, I am sure." Janet certainly was not one to have chosen for a listener to such a tale. Her eyes were so small that no satisfaction could possibly come of it. "Oh! I don't mind, uncle," she said, with half-affected indifference, as she searched in her box for silk to mend her gloves.
With that fancy, half-real, perhaps, and half-affected, for pastoral simplicity, which has always marked a state of over-luxurious civilisation, he protests to himself that there is nothing like the country.
They had been married some four or five years, and never during that time had been separated for a single night. "I thought you called this your home," said Gray, looking up with a mock-serious air. "I mean my old home," replied Lucy, in a half-affected tone of anger. "Or, to make it plain, I want to go, and see father and mother."
He had not noticed the sudden coquettish pose and half-affected bashfulness of the girl; he was thinking only of the possibility of detection by strangers. "Oh, he is Marco Franti, but I call him 'Mark. It's the same name, you know, and it makes him mad," said the girl, with the same suggestion of archness and coquetry. But all this was lost on Jarman. "Oh, another Italian," he said, relieved.
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