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Her wonderful voice was keyed in half-bitter defiance. For the moment Cornelia was mistress, and not the queen. "O queen," broke in the young Roman, "would you know how I feel toward you?" Cleopatra looked at her with dilated eyes. "I feel for you a very great sorrow.
Her thought turned back to that half-bitter, half-delightful moment when he had tried to kiss her at the bridge. "Why, even then," she mused, "thar were somethin' seemed to draw me to him in spite o' myself. Never felt anythin' like it afore. It war just as if I war asleep, all over, an' never wanted to wake up!
For a moment the Vicomte hesitated, but he knew that not even he was wanted inside that empty tent, and a half-bitter, half-sad feeling that the perfect friendship and confidence that had existed between them for twenty years would never again be the same came to them, the regretful sense of inevitable change, the consciousness of personal relegation.
It was to be "full of little turrets and the finest of fancy porches and a regular sight of bulging windows." One day that Martin Cosgrave heard a neighbour speaking about the "bulging windows" he laughed a half-bitter, half-mocking laugh. "Tell them," he said, "that they are cut-stone tracery windows to fit in with the carved doors."
When I was down there last winter the five-o'clock-tea people were still recalling Mrs. Blount's gowns and the wild-Western naïveté of 'The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush." Gantry was chuckling softly when the half-bitter admission had got itself fully made.
He's given her too many feelings, and I hope He will see to it that they ain't tried too hard." Henry said this last with the half-bitter melancholy which was growing upon him. "I guess she will get along all right," said Eunice, comfortably. "She's a pretty little girl, and her mother has looked out for her clothes, if she did scoot off and leave her.
Venture not, General, to share those new quarters of yours with any lady whom we do not approve." Then, followed by the Court, she turned and walked away, and I went about my business, wondering what was the meaning of all this guarded and half-bitter talk. The next event that returns to me clearly is that of my public acceptance as a Christian in the great Cathedral of St.
What a pleasant thing it must be for you," she added, "to be able to run down to Brighton for a day after a week's hard work at the theatre." "Yes," he answered, in a half-bitter kind of fashion. "It is a pleasant thing to get away from the theatre anywhere. I think I am becoming rather sick of the theatre and all its associations." "Really, Mr.
"Lassiter," said Venters, with a half-bitter laugh, "my bed too, is the sage. Perhaps we may meet out there." "Mebbe so. But the sage is wide an' I won't be near. Good night." At Lassiter's low whistle the black horse whinnied, and carefully picked his blind way out of the grove.
"You can stay," said the young man quietly; "but as I've got my provisions and ammunition here, and haven't any other place to go to just now, I suppose we'll have to share it together." She glanced at him under her eyelids, and a half-bitter, half-contemptuous smile passed across her face. "All right, old man," she said, holding out her hand, "it's a go.
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