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He must have given a rose-coloured account. We aren't so rich as all that, are we, wife? He glanced at her with a charming half-apprehensive smile, which made his face young again. Lucy looked ready to cry. 'I know you'll get out of buying that coat, she said with energy, as though referring to an already familiar topic of discussion between them. 'No, I won't, said David cheerfully.
She persisted in her determination; she cast off all thoughts of ministering like an angel, or revenging like a demon; she enjoyed the gaieties with which the youth of Radstowe amused itself during the summer months; she accompanied her aunts to garden parties, ate ices, had her fortune told in tents, flirted mildly and endured Charles Batty's peculiar half-apprehensive tyranny.
There was another glance up and down the athletic figure, a half-apprehensive smile as the baronet thought of his wife, and then he said: "We must see if anything can be done." He pulled a bell-cord. A servant appeared. "Ask the housekeeper to come for a moment, please." Neither spoke till the housekeeper appeared. "Hovey," he said to the grim woman, "give Mr. Gaston the room in the north tower.
Do you think this is very strange mysterious?" she asked, her eyes fixed upon him with a half-apprehensive regard. "I've not the least doubt you have good reasons for giving me this," said Derrick; "I will not open it unless, as you say, I am in a fix." "That is well," she said. "You have good reason a reason I cannot explain," she added hurriedly, and with some agitation, "for trusting me."
We'll drive somewhere this afternoon, anyhow." "See what the doctor says. Look here, Bertie, here's a letter marked private, so I didn't go on." "Where did you find that? I never saw it." As he read, his brow grew dark, and he pondered several minutes; while Cecil, devoured with curiosity, and half-apprehensive of evil, remained silent. "Will you get me a railway-guide, Cecil?
There was something unpleasantly suggestive in the sight of the fog that hid everything, for Agatha had been troubled with a half-apprehensive longing to see what lay before her. She noticed the lookout, a lonely, shapeless figure, standing amid the spray that whirled about the plunging bows. By and by she saw him turn and wave an arm toward the bridge behind her, and she heard a hoarse cry.
During these days, had there been any one to observe her, she was a pathetic little figure, with her thin legs like black sticks, her saucer eyes that so readily filled with tears, her eager, half-apprehensive expression, the passionate clutch of the doll to her heart, and it is, after all, a painful business, this adoration no human soul can live up to the heights of it, and, what is more, no human soul ought to.
Now and then a mule will be caught off his guard and be flung violently to the deck, but the look of astonishment dies away as it nimbly regains its feet, and gives place to angry attack on its neighbor and a half-reproachful, half-apprehensive look at the sea.
"Seth's folks" meant nobody but his mother, who lived alone as Betty knew, and there she was standing in the door, a kind-faced, round-shouldered little creature, who had the patient, half-apprehensive look of those women who live alone in lonely places. She threw her big clean gingham apron over her head and came forward just as Jonathan had got out of the wagon and Betty followed him.
With a shrill laugh, like the half-mad cry of an outcast soul, he flung away farther into the trees. There was a sudden silence. The crowd turned with half-apprehensive laughter to the trees. Upon John Brown the effect was startling. His face blanched, his eyes grew large with terror, his mouth opened in helpless agitation.
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