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Updated: May 17, 2025
"I shall never see you again in this world," said she; "but I beg of you to write to me, that my mind may be in contact with yours." She then asked Mabel, in her half-sorrowful, half-bitter way, how many months it would be ere she was forgotten. Mabel answered by quietly crying. So then they embraced; and Mabel assured her friend she was not one of those who change their minds.
Yet not even this dismays him rather does it engender a sort of half-bitter exultation. Life for him has been such a mistake, and that not through any fault of his own. It held no especial charm for him. All its sweetness has been concentrated within one short idyllic period; but even that could not have lasted even to it would have come disillusionment. Lilith would never learn his fate.
"He 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. He said I must go to Norway and give my throat and chest a rest." They looked at one another, and there was in their eyes the half-bitter, half-weary smile of those to whom the cure prescribed is ludicrously impossible. It was Winifred who spoke first.
Ammunition has just been served out, and I know the horse artillery have orders to be in readiness by daybreak." "All right," said Hampden, with a half-bitter tone. "Nothing like going through with it. If he is to be brought to court-martial for disobedience, he'll take good care we sha'n't be there to see it." "Why, the French are fifty thousand strong!" said Baker.
She put them in his buttonhole as a peace offering, and he stood a minute looking down at them with a curious expression, for in the Italian part of his nature there was a touch of superstition, and he was just then in that state of half-sweet, half-bitter melancholy, when imaginative young men find significance in trifles and food for romance everywhere.
Then a queer little smile, half-bitter, half-tender, curving his lips, he added: "I shall always have this one day for which to thank whatever gods there be." Sara lay long awake that night.
He had quite lost the feeling of superiority under the tone of half-humorous, half-bitter remonstrance which Caffyn had chosen to take, and was chiefly anxious now to make the other forget his share in the matter. 'Perhaps I was too ready to put the worst construction on what I heard, he said apologetically, 'but after what you've told me, why
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