half-chuckling

Updated: May 8, 2025

He was talking to a little boy, but keeping a wary eye on the street, and he came out quickly, beckoning with his long hands, and calling softly, in a half-chuckling and yet authoritative voice: "Venez, Madame, venez! Come! come!" Suzanne seized Domini's arm. "Not to-night!" Domini called out. "Yes, Madame, to-night. The vie of Madame is there in the sand to-night. Je la vois, je la vois.

Robert Smythe Hichens - The Garden of Allah