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So he had gone right into the enemy's camp and carried off two of the leaders captive, and here they were half-laughing and half-annoyed and explaining carefully to their friends how they had not had the slightest intention of coming in such a mixed crowd but that dreadful man just made them.
The newcomer's laugh showed a glistening line of the whitest teeth under a closely-cropped dark mustache. "I have run away," he declared. "My honored father is, of course, furious, but Europe was desolate and so " He shrugged his shoulders. Then, noting Benton's half-amused, half-annoyed smile, he bowed and saluted. "Ah, Benton," he said. "How are you?
They startled him and, staring at them, he stopped for an instant, half-amused, half-annoyed at their being still in existence. He had so completely destroyed them in spirit that he had taken the act for granted, and he was now reminded of the orderly stages of which an intention must consist to be sincere.
Jim was puzzled and half-annoyed, because he could not tell what Bernard meant; but the latter began to talk about something else. "You were a miner for a time, I think," he presently remarked. "One would expect you to know gold when you see it." "It's sometimes difficult," said Jim. "As a rule, gold is pure. It doesn't form chemical alloys, but it's often mixed with other substances."
Well, when a man inquires for D'Hénault's poems and is half-pleased because I have the book, and half-annoyed because he must needs buy it ! An epicurean rogue by his lip, a true son of the Muses. And suppose there is a letter from England, quoth I, with the seal of the Royal Society!" "Is there a letter from England?" "Thou hast not been to thy lodging?
His mother gave him a magnificent look, warning, silencing, appealing. "I'll explain it to you later, dear!" she said, half-annoyed and half-pleading. "You may announce dinner, Bottomley!" Bottomley duly announced dinner. But he might have added something to the conversation, had he been permitted.
"But I have entirely recovered and I am well and somehow I can't manage to deceive Sylvia Wharton no matter how hard I try," Polly announced in a half-amused and half-annoyed manner. "Then why are you trying to?" Betty naturally queried. Of course one never actually expected to understand Polly O'Neill's whims, but now and then one of them appeared a trifle more mysterious than the others.
He had enough, at any rate, to knock the next afternoon, unannounced, on Matthews' gate, to follow Matthews' servant into the house without waiting to hear whether Matthews would receive him, to present himself at the door of the dim underground serdab where Matthews lounged in his pajamas till it should be cool enough to go out, to make Matthews the most ceremonious of bows, and to give that young man a half-amused, half-annoyed consciousness of being put at his ease.
'Then what on earth are you carrying such a thing about with you for? demanded Amy, looking half-annoyed and half-amused. 'I brought it to show you all; it is for the new house! she exclaimed triumphantly. 'Which we have not got yet, put in Amy. 'But it's old old and dirty, objected Vava, who had been looking at it with disgust. 'That's only rust; it will clean off.
"Let your wife wait; take a drive with me. I want to talk to you. She'll be just as glad to see you an hour later, and it's her fault if I can't come home with you now." "I know it," returned his companion, in a tone of half-annoyed apology. "She still sticks to her old compact when we first married, that she shouldn't be obliged to receive my old worldly friends.
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