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George went to Bodine, whom he had never seen before, and of whom he knew nothing, and began in his half-boyish way: "Here, mine ancient, father wants Beg your pardon. Didn't know that you had lost a leg." "What is it that Mr. Houghton wishes?" said the captain coldly, and turning upon the young man a visage which impressed him instantly. "I beg your pardon again," said George.
Then we were out of the town, spinning on through the wild, unreal-looking country towards Spalato. "What new ground for honeymooners!" exclaimed Sir Ralph, enchanted with everything, in his half-boyish, half-cynical way. "I shall recommend it in The Riviera Sun for a wedding trip en automobile. Shouldn't you like to do it, Miss Beechy dawdling, not scorching?"
"Intuition, on the manward side of it at least, doesn't go," he was saying with half-boyish candor. "I was awake last night when you drove home in the motor, and I looked out of the window and saw you as you came up the steps. According to the psychics, there ought to have been some inward stirrings of recognition, but there weren't not a single thrill. Did the little er did Mrs.
The Governor was the one man who had ever roused in him a deep affection, and the dread of finding that under his flippancy, his half-earnest, half-boyish make-believe devotion to the folk of the underworld, he was really an irredeemable rogue, tortured him. These were disloyal thoughts; he hated himself for his doubts.
Masters, I should know better than ever attempt to dictate to you on any matter." Christopher gave him one of his rare half-shy, half-boyish smiles and leant forward over the big desk. "Mr. Clisson, I shall need your help and advice every hour of the day.
Perhaps she did think of it, for surely she faltered a little what woman would not have faltered at such a moment? but the next, the memory of the sunny, half-boyish face she had clung to with so strong a love rushed back upon her and struck her to the heart.
The half-boyish, half-masterful tone in which he spoke seemed too much for the old woman, who had watched Owen grow from boy to man, and now, after a lapse of years, saw him in his manhood. She looked first at him, then at the pale girl by his side, and her features worked oddly. "Come, Mrs. Blades!" Owen had had enough of tears for one afternoon. "Cheer up!
But Betty only gave him the tips of her fingers in reply as she swept a graceful courtesy. Was it the slight pressure of his hand which accompanied the farewell that made Geoffrey spring gayly into the sleigh and drive off with a half-boyish, half-triumphant smile?
It seems to me that she always loved you, long before long ago, I mean. Greif sighed, and looked away. The half-boyish blush faded slowly from his cheeks and left his face paler than before. The good lady saw the change with regret, and wondered whether the slip of the tongue she had made in her last sentence could have anything to do with it.
English fondly held, and struck it in a hearty half-boyish manner upon their clasped hands, saying, "Awfully glad to see you, Paul!" and she evidently meant it. This was Miss. Juno, an American girl bred in Europe, now, after years of absence, passing a season in her native land.
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