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It is, in truth, to the literary purpose of the humourist, in the old-fashioned sense of the term, that this method of writing naturally allies itself of the humourist to whom all the world is but a spectacle in which nothing is really alien from himself, who has hardly a sense of the distinction between great and little among things that are at all, and whose half-pitying, half-amused sympathy is called out especially by the seemingly small interests and traits of character in the things or the people around him.
And so, one day, she disappeared from town. When Wickersham met Mrs. Lancaster after her talk with Lois, he was conscious of the change in her. The old easy, indulgent attitude was gone; and in her eye, instead of the lazy, half-amused smile, was something very like scorn. Something had happened, he knew. His thoughts flew to Keith, Norman, Rimmon, also to several ladies of his acquaintance.
Lily made a little gesture of half-amused despair. "Dearest," she said, "I did. And I liked it. Mother, things have changed a lot in twenty years. Sometimes I think that here, in this house, you don't realize that " she struggled for a phrase "that things have changed," she ended, lamely. "The social order, and that sort of thing. You know. Caste." She hesitated.
Just then we heard soft footsteps, and looking up we were surprised to see Captain Rudstone standing within a yard of us. There was a peculiar gleam in his eyes, and a half-amused, half-mocking expression lurked on his inscrutable features. His glance swept about the room, then settled keenly on our little group. "Pardon me for interrupting you, Mr. Macdonald," he said in well-modulated tones.
There followed a lengthy and acrimonious debate among the men, to which Cicily listened with an air of half-amused, half-bored tolerance. She was, in fact, thrilling with delight over her inspiration, which had at last come after such long waiting. She felt an intuitive conviction that her ruse would win the battle for her husband's success.
When it ended and she turned to make her way up the aisle, leading a bevy of young cousins, her eyes, beneath a sheltering hat-brim, darted here and there until, unexpectedly near-by, they encountered the half-amused but wholly respectful recognition of those they sought.
She laughed half-angrily, half-amused. "I once had one who remained away eight days it was about the first of the month. I was terrified about my rent I had to go to the police." "Where was he then? Where was he then?" Käte's voice quivered. The woman laughed. "Well, then he turned up again." She saw the mother's terror, and her good-nature gained the victory over her malice.
"Yes, sir," said Sir James; "we shall see we shall see; but it's a most unpleasant episode in our midst. Of course, being such near neighbours, I have been on the most intimate terms with the Graysons, and Lady Danby is warmly attached to Helen Grayson; but now they have this boy there, they want us to know him too." "Indeed!" said the Vicar, looking half-amused, half puzzled.
He seemed content to put his finger on the weak spot in any system without troubling to point out a remedy; and to Owen, whose eager mind was ever ready to remedy abuses, this attitude of half-pitying, half-amused toleration was vaguely irritating.
So I thought well, I thought I'd come and bring you over to see Mrs. Howe." Stella sat gazing at the slow moving panorama of the lake shore, her chin in her hand. "Thank you," she said at last, and very gently. Fyfe looked at her a minute or more, a queer, half-amused expression creeping into his eyes. "Well," he said finally, "I might as well tell the whole truth.
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