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Updated: May 6, 2025
"We are always prepared for fires and explosions here," said Edison in half-apology for the barrenness of the rooms. The place is a maze of retorts, kettles, tubes, siphons and tiny brass machinery. In the midst of the mess stood two old-fashioned armchairs both sacred to Edison. One he sits in, and the other is for his feet, his books, pads and paper.
"It takes a fellow back all this," Quin roused himself to say in half-apology. "I know," said Eleanor. They walked home in the autumn twilight in that exalted, romantic mood in which a good play leaves one. Now that the tension was over, it was quite possible to prolong the enjoyment by discussing the strong and weak points of the performance.
His deprecating half-apology, half-eulogy, gave Morris the opportunity he craved. "Teacher." he panted; "I wants to whisper mit you in the ear." With a dexterous movement he knelt upon her lap and tore out his solitary safety-pin. He then clasped her tightly and made his explanation.
Then he said, softly, with a half-apology in his tone, "The money's 'most gone, Elnathan." The boy started. He knew as well as Mr. Lightenhome that when the last coin was spent, the doors of the poorhouse would open once more to receive his only friend. A thrill of gladness went through Elnathan as he recognized that no such fate awaited him. He could provide for himself. He need never return.
"He's got too much at stake, Meakim," he said, in half-apology, as they tramped through the sand. "He mustn't spoil it. We won't let him." Holcombe had searched the circuit of Tangier's small extent with fruitless effort, his anger increasing momentarily and feeding on each fresh disappointment.
She spoke with a vibrant fervency of feeling which for the moment pierced even his thick skin. "He was over-hasty," he muttered, in half-apology. "What I said was for his interest. I intended no offence." "Will you follow him, and say so?" "Certainly not! If he chooses to take umbrage, let him. It's no affair of mine." "Then I will go and not return until he comes with me, invited by you!"
Arnold showed by a lifted eyebrow that he was conscious of being put down, but he survived the process with his usual negligent obliviousness of reproof. He added in a half-apology for his offensive laughter, "It just tickled me to hear a man who owns most of several counties of coal-mines so set up over finding a nickel on the street!"
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