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Is it a Kaffir hut?" "No," said Burke. He spoke somewhat shortly. The object she indicated was undoubtedly a hut; to Sylvia's unaccustomed eyes it might have been a cattle-shed. It was close to the dry watercourse, a little lonely hovel standing among stones and a straggling growth of coarse grass. Something impelled Sylvia to check her horse. She glanced at her companion as if half-afraid.
She walked in the garden till the village-church clock struck ten, and then went hastily in, half-afraid lest her father should have come down to the parlour in her absence, and should be offended at not finding her ready to receive him. She need not have feared this. Mr. Lovel was rarely offended by anything that did not cause him physical discomfort.
Yuan Shih-kai, although half-afraid of him, found him at various periods useful as a counterweight to other generals in the provinces; in any case he was not the man to risk anything by attempting to crush him.
"Shall we go and watch for it?" They rose together. Dinah's eyes sought his for one shy, fleeting second, falling instantly as if half-dazzled, half-afraid. He took her hand and led her quietly from the room. It was no longer dark in the passage outside. A pearly light was growing.
I was very unhappy, but I could not interfere, you know, could I?" "So you went off to sea, and left mother and Harry and your business to anybody's care. It wasn't like you, John." "No, it was not. I wanted you, mother, a dozen times a day, and I was half-afraid to come back to you, lest I should find Miss Jane married or at least engaged."
"Why?" asked Netty, looking with a curious interest at the packets of tea in the Russian shop next to Ulrich's. "Is it not the correct thing to select the flower that matches the eyes?" "It is very kind of you to say that," said Netty, in a voice half-afraid, half-reproachful. "It is very kind of Heaven to give you such eyes," answered Martin, gayly.
Darkness closed upon the earth. Sitting in her igloo, startled, vaguely perplexed and half-afraid, Annadoah heard him sobbing throughout the night. "For a long black hour of horror they were driven over the thundering seas and through a frigid whirlwind of snow sharp as flakes of steel . . . "Seeing Ootah turn slightly toward Annadoah, Maisanguaq sprang at his throat.
Monsieur Amaury took a fancy to my sister Marie because she is fair and because he is half-afraid of me; but he'd adore you, for ever since those people at the pavilion have spruced you up a bit you've got the airs of an empress." Adroitly leading the innocent heart to forget Nicolas and so put it off its guard, Catherine distilled into the girl the insidious nectar of compliments.
Then she wondered if Mom Beck would think that she had refused her offers of assistance because she was not used to the services of a lady's maid. She was half-afraid of this old family servant in her imposing head-handkerchief and white apron.
"If my companionship, just to run down and see how you are, wherever you may be, will help to cheer you up and amuse you, there is no reason why I shouldn't manage it." She knew he was making a concession of which he was half-afraid, because of what he owed her, and while one half of her longed to be self-sacrificing and release him, the other half fiercely demanded the straw that yet might save.
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