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There was a half-humorous, half-apologetic exhibition of the rude utensils of the living room, and then the young men turned away as the two girls entered the open door of the second room.
Something of this must have shone in her face, for Geisha McCoy's tone was half-pettish, half-apologetic as she spoke. "You've no business allowing things like that, you know. My nerves are all shot to pieces anyway. But even if they weren't, who could stand that kind of torture? A woman like that ought to lose her job for that. One word from me at the office and she "
It came in the negative, but the hesitating, half-apologetic tone was very different from the firm and decided one, in which he had resisted all other solicitations. But she was not yet satisfied. Womanly vanity must triumph, no matter how dearly the victory may be purchased.
"We thought your name was really Jolly man," she said, in a half-apologetic tone. "Of course you did. A good invention, by the bye, that name, wasn't it?" "Very good indeed," she answered, smiling. "And you used to come to the shop." pursued Will. "And I looked forward to it. There was something human in your way of talking to me." "I hope so." "Yes, but it made me ask myself that question.
On his shoulder he carried a rifle, and in his left hand some partridges and a fox-skin. "That was a nasty shave for you," he continued, in a half-apologetic tone; "but, you see, I hadn't any idea there was any one around. Farmer Kenniston is down on the meadow, and Harnett went to town this morning; so you see that, by rights, you ought not have been here."
But when the performance was over, and the green curtain fell on the little stage, Mliss drew a long deep breath, and turned to the master's grave face with a half-apologetic smile and wearied gesture. Then she said, "Now take me home!" and dropped the lids of her black eyes, as if to dwell once more in fancy on the mimic stage. On their way to Mrs.
The two men in the wagon settled themselves more comfortably in their seats, and Perry Larson, after a half-uneasy, half-apologetic glance at his employer, dropped himself onto the bottom step. Simeon Holly had already sat down stiffly in one of the porch chairs. Simeon Holly never "dropped himself" anywhere.
The man mentioned these things with the half-apologetic air observable in a certain kind of Americans when some accident obliges them to confess the infirmity of the natural feelings. They do not ask your sympathy, and you offer it quite at your own risk, with a chance of having it thrown back upon your hands.
At that moment some one touched her on the arm, and she heard a strong, half-confident, half-apologetic voice exclaim: "Ain't dish yer Miss Doshy?" Turning, Miss Theodosia saw at her side a tall, gray-haired negro. Elaborating the incident afterward to her friends, she was pleased to say that the appearance of the old man was somewhat picturesque.
The former grew more entangled in his thoughts, and finally arose from the table, saying, in a half-apologetic way, "I don't know what ails me this morning." "Where are you going?" asked Irene, rising at the same time. "Nowhere in particular. The air is close here I'll sit a while in the portico," he answered, and throwing open one of the windows he stepped outside. Irene followed him.
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