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"But, Kitten, unless I am assured that she is under an enchantment, she will not do." Again his cousin looked at him with that untranslatable expression in her eyes, a little, half-bitter smile on her lips. "I'm only too afraid we shall be able to satisfy you in that regard," she stared before her with somber eyes. "Marcia is very lovely and very gifted. She paints wonderfully well.
This he said with a half-bitter laugh. Clarissa was spared the trouble of answering by the entrance of more bridesmaids Lady Louisa Challoner and Miss Granger with three of the military men, who wore hothouse flowers in their buttonholes, and were altogether arrayed like the lilies of the field, but who had rather the air of considering this marriage business a tiresome interruption to partridge-shooting.
You walk about barefoot, not at all like me, and the sunburn doesn't seem to stick to you there's only a cover of dust on your feet." The aroma of violets came from somewhere, and it mingled now with the dry smell of the flying dust, now with the sickly, half-sweet, half-bitter odour of the smoke of a forest fire.
Lady Mildmay, accustomed to straightforward emotions, was puzzled at the half-bitter half-merry tone. "I mean I egg him on when perhaps I ought to hold him back. I know he ought to rest, but I never want him to never really want it, you know." Lady Mildmay still looked puzzled. "He's at his best working," said May.
At any rate Dominic would have understood the younger man perfectly if scornfully. He and I were engaged together in a rather absurd adventure, but the absurdity does not matter. It is a real satisfaction to think that in my very young days there must, after all, have been something in me worthy to command that man's half-bitter fidelity, his half-ironic devotion.
Tears came readily into his eyes, and often, like Cromwell, he was thought to weep from hypocrisy, when in truth it was the hysteric of over-wrought and irritable emotion. He drank deep, though its effects were never visible upon him except in a freer and wilder mood, and the indulgence of that racy humour, half-mirthful, half-bitter, for which his younger day had been distinguished.
In the left-hand stage-box were gathered a little group of his own, old circle, about the empty chair which had been reserved, in case faintly possible the erratic one should suddenly appear. Kashkine, Laroche, Ostrovsky, and Ivan's passionate young admirer Rimsky-Korsakow, sat there in silence, all of them thinking the same half-bitter, half-resentful thoughts.
"The specialist warned me that this might happen if I went on singing, but what could I do? I couldn't cancel my engagements without telling people why. The physician said I must go to Norway and give my throat and chest a rest." They looked at each other, and there was in their eyes the half-bitter, half-weary smile of those to whom the cure prescribed is ludicrously impossible.
Do you think I could bear it?" "I will keep the secret as long as you desire," said Wollaston. "I only wish to act honorably and for your happiness." "There is only one reason which could induce me to give my consent to the terrible publicity," said Maria. "What is that?" "If you wished to marry anybody else." "I do not," said Wollaston, with a half-bitter laugh.
For a time he looked steadily upon them; then, turning on his side, he drew his harvest hat over his eyes and began a story of his early adventures behind the hounds, speaking in half-gay, half-bitter tones. In the mild autumn weather a faint haze overhung the landscape, changing from violet to gray as the shadows rose or fell.
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