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"I suppose," he replied, with the same half-apologetic, half-humorous smile, "it is instinct. I feel, somehow, that this man Halyard has got an auk perhaps two. I can't get away from the idea that we are on the eve of acquiring the rarest of living creatures. It's odd for a scientist to talk as I do; doubtless you're shocked admit it, now!"
"Yes, I met her in the chapel. Really, I should have expected to be safe from her there. And the Mother would not turn her out!" And then the duchess, by a sudden transition, said to me, with a half-apologetic, half challenging smile: "You got my note, I suppose, Mr. Aycon?" For a minute I regarded the duchess. And I smiled, and my smile turned to a laugh as I answered: "Oh, yes! I got the note."
And then Bunny, half-laughing, half-apologetic, turned to his brother-in-law. "I can't help being decent to Charlie, Jake. I don't care a damn what they say." Jake gave him a straight look from under his rough red brows. "I'm not blaming you," he said. Someone was singing a baby lullaby very softly in the beautiful room with the bay window that looked straight over the rolling down.
Indeed," said the youth, glancing at his belt with a half-apologetic smile, "these weapons, which are so unfamiliar to my hand, and so distasteful to my spirit, are proof that I, at least, do not look for a time of peace.
I used to rage because the dining-room was the only place for the sewing-machine, and rage because my bedroom was really a back parlor. Well! I joined a theatrical company came away. And many a night, tired out and discouraged, I've cried myself to sleep because I'd never have any girlhood again!" She stopped with a half-apologetic laugh. The doctor was watching her with absorbed, bright eyes.
Without it I should not be strong enough this day." She said this in a half-apologetic tone, as one anxious not to give him any shadow of offense. She was asleep in five minutes; and Miss Gale sat watching her at first, but presently joined Vizard at the other end, and they whispered together. Said she, "What becomes of the theory that women have no strength of will?
"Bless my soul, it's like a day out of Scripture!" he exclaimed in a tone that was half-apologetic; then raising his walking-stick he leisurely swept it into space. "There's hardly another crop, I reckon, between here and the Hall?" Sol Peterkin was busily cutting a fresh quid of tobacco from the plug he carried in his pocket, and there was a brief pause before he answered.
Neither the temporizing concession of the President nor the conciliatory and half-apologetic resolution of the Committee of Thirty-three for one instant changed or affected the determination to destroy the Government and dissolve the Union. Friday, December 14, 1860, was a day of gloom and despondency in Mr.
We've always been friends, generally speaking, but we've had quarrels now and then sometimes we'd be really intimate, and then again, we wouldn't speak for six weeks at a time. Just petty tiffs, you know, but they seemed serious at the time." "I see. Hello, here's McGuire!" Ferdinand, with a half-apologetic look, ushered in a boy, with red hair, and a very red face.
The conjuror a man with one of those faces in which the angles of the eyes and eyebrows, of the nostrils, mouth, and sharply-defined jaw, all tend upward showed his small regular teeth in an impish but not ill-natured grin, as he let go Tessa's hands, and stretched out his own backward, shrugging his shoulders, and bending them forward a little in a half-apologetic, half-protesting manner.
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