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The woman answered with such self-possession and good sense, that the lady sent a half-amused glance over her shoulder as if relishing in advance the sturdy disapproval of this highly respectable young mother when she should come to realize how near she and the precious daughter were to the rostrum of the Shrieking Sisterhood.
Brethren, let me beseech you that it may not be yours. III. Again, we have here an example of instinctive shrinking from the personal application of broad truths. Agrippa listened, half-amused and a good deal interested, to Paul as long as he talked generalities and described his own experience.
Sometimes he spoke out in sudden, half-amused praise of some debutante, she was a "funny little devil," or "she was the decentest kid in this year's crop," and perhaps he would follow up this remark with a call or two upon the admired young girl, and Ella would begin to tease him about her.
For, instead of an opera-score, he found a prayer- book! "I hope your majesty will excuse me," stammered the empress. "In absence of mind, I brought my prayer-book instead of the score." "And your majesty was praying for us," replied Leopold, half-vexed, half-amused.
"You don't hold me right, mamma," said Carry at last, after one or two uneasy shiftings of position. "How should I hold you?" asked Mrs. Tretherick with a half-amused, half-embarrassed laugh. "Dis way," said Carry, curling up into position, with one arm around Mrs. Tretherick's neck, and her cheek resting on her bosom, "dis way, dere."
"One who always does right because it is right, no matter whether it is convenient or not," said Ellen, after a little hesitation. "Upon my word, you draw the line close. But opinions differ as to what is right; how shall we know?" "From the Bible, Sir," said Ellen, quickly, with a look that half-amused and half-abashed him. "And you, Ellen are you yourself good after this nice fashion?"
Nic Lavilette, once he steal the Cure's pig and " "See you there, Castine, I've had enough of that," was the half-angry, half-amused interruption. "What are you after here?" "What was I after five years ago?" was the meaning reply. Lavilette's face suddenly flushed with fury.
Principles not attempted to be understood and carried into practice, smooth self-complacency among those who looked down on a blind and unspiritual world, the continual provocation of worthless reasoning and ignorant platitudes, the dull unconscious stupidity of people who could not see that the times were critical that truth had to be defended, and that it was no easy or light-hearted business to defend it threw him into an habitual attitude of defiance, and half-amused, half-earnest contradiction, which made him feared by loose reasoners and pretentious talkers, and even by quiet easy-going friends, who unexpectedly found themselves led on blindfold, with the utmost gravity, into traps and absurdities by the wiles of his mischievous dialectic.
"Do you really accuse a man like Sir Luke Strett of trifling with you?" She couldn't blind herself to the look her companion gave her a strange half-amused perception of what she made of it. "Well, so far as it's trifling with me to pity me so much." "He doesn't pity you," Susie earnestly reasoned. "He just the same as any one else likes you." "He has no business then to like me.
Hooker; but a glance at Bascombe's face, with its half-amused smile, instantly set him right again, and he thought with dismay how near he had been to letting himself be fooled by a madman. Again in the carriage, Leopold laid his head on Helen's shoulder, and looked up in her face with such a smile as she had never seen on his before.
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