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The Baroness rose as though unwillingly to her feet. She dropped the slightest of curtseys and resumed her place. "Your visit is a little unexpected, is it not, Karl?" she remarked. "Apparently!" the young man answered, with an unpleasant laugh. He turned and stared at Norgate, who returned his regard with half-amused, half-impatient indifference. The Baroness leaned forward eagerly.
When, in his mingled dislike and admiration, he had begun to study his sister-in-law, and the half-amused weaving of the small plots which would make things sufficiently unpleasant to be used as factors in her removal from the scene, if necessary, he had not calculated, ever so remotely, on the chance of that madness besetting him which usually besets men only in their youth.
CAN'T you remember?" No use. When Wallace came back he must make the acquaintance of his son all over again. Martie would sigh, half-vexed, half-amused. "Aren't they the queer little things, Adele? He remembers his sand-machine and doesn't remember his father!" "Oh, I don't know, Martie. That was just after we came, you know. And I remember thinking that Teddy was a mere baby then!"
"in which you are to be chief conspirator, Mr. Lynde." "Miss Denham, the person is dead, either by steel or poison; it is all one to me I am equally familiar with both methods." As the girl lifted up her eyes in a half-serious, half-amused way, and gave him a look in which gentleness and a certain shadow of hauteur were oddly blended, Lynde started in spite of himself.
It's Frank's fault, though. He never notices anything. I really think you men ought to do something about that." "And then," Honey went on. But he stopped. "What's the use?" he muttered under his breath. He subsided, enveloped himself in a cloud of smoke and listened, half-amused, half-irritated, to Lulu's pauseless, squirrel-like chatter.
"Yet you have spoken." He sighed and raised his hand. "The man the men down there would destroy our country. They are our enemies, and we do well to slay. But remember, Pierre 'What God hath joined let no man put asunder! To fight him as an enemy of your country well; to fight him that you may put asunder is not well." A look, half-pained, half-amused, crossed Iberville's face.
With his back against the door and the pistol still levelled, the Governor felt behind him, inserted the key, and turned the lock. Then, with one swift movement he was outside; the door slammed, the key grated, and the prisoner was alone once more. "Well," he murmured, half-amused, despite his anger and disappointment, "the rascal was too smart for me that time.
The doctor bent forward, his hands hanging over his knees, his lips moving without sound, under the sentences his brain was forming. This habit of silent rhetoric represented a curious compromise between a natural impetuosity of temperament, and the caution of scientific research. His wife watched him with a loving, half-amused eye. "And what, pray, could Mr.
He stood, his arms folded on his breast, towering above the Fiji Islander, possibly a quarter of an inch taller than the Bedouin. A half-amused smile lurked in his steady eyes the smile of unwavering brows and dispassionately steady mouth-line. The cannibal chief waved his hand.
"You should do so much be so much in the world," she answered, thoughtfully. "Sans peur et sans reproche!" he cried, half-amused, half-cheerlessly. "What a pity I met you too late!" They were now at the broad entrance of the brilliantly-lighted hotel. Several loungers, smoking their after-dinner cigars, gazed at the couple curiously. "Mauville's a lucky dog," said one.
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