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"It would be a great deal better for me," she half whispered, breaking the suspicious silence that followed, "it would be a great deal better for me if I did not care for you half so much;" and yet at the same time she leaned a trifle more toward him in the most traitorous of half-coaxing, half-reproachful ways.
"He has cracked up," said Acton, in despair, and he gripped the half-senseless youth with frenzied strength. "This is the way you're to go with me!" he yelled. Half-dragging, half-coaxing, uttering strange promises, to which Senior smiled stupidly, Acton regained those few but terrible yards to the top of the ridge.
"Do let us go more quickly, father; I can hear the drums," the young girl said, and in a half-teasing, half-coaxing manner she urged her companion forward. "The troops are marching into the Tuileries," said he. "Or marching out of it everybody is coming away," she answered in childish vexation, which drew a smile from her father.
Soon there was an excitement in the school, and about the door; girls and boys talking and discussing, but as soon as any opposition came up Willie's half-coaxing but decided way bore it down. I think he was much helped by Sammy's wit, which was all on his side. It was agreed, finally, that whatever scholars meant to give to teachers, or teachers to scholars, should go to the poor.
He was laughing, but there was a half-coaxing note in his voice as well. Toby was silent for a moment. Then: "You're mad!" she said tersely. "I'm not!" said Bunny. "I'm perfectly serious. Don't you understand that when this kind of thing gets hold of you, there's no getting away from it? We can't possibly go back to where we were before behave as if nothing had happened.
"Madame has money?" went on the old hag in a half-threatening, half-coaxing whisper, as she came up quite close, and fastened on her victim like a bird of prey. "If you mean that I am to bribe you " "Fie, the nasty word! But just a small present, a pretty gift, one or two yellow bits, twenty, thirty, forty francs you'd better."
While Sally went up-stairs to her room, to put her hair into order, and tie a finer apron over her cloth gown, Miss Betsy Lavender was made the victim of a most painful experience. Joe and Jake, who had been dodging around the house, half-coaxing and half-teasing the ancient maiden whom they both plagued and liked, had not been heard or seen for a while.
The old woman, if not a witch, at least looked very like one, with her two hands resting on the wide round ledge of her farthingale, her head thrown back, and from under her peaked hat that pointed away behind, her two greenish eyes peering with a half-coaxing, yet sharp and probing gaze into those of the youth. But how could he make a confidante of one like her?
"Think you that I will cross the threshold of your piggery?" and she waited, stamping her foot impatiently whilst the man did her bidding. In another minute he came out with Benito Villegas, the man in the brown suit, who had spoken to Mrs. Wilders in the Commercial Square. "Cypriana," he began at once, in a half-coaxing, half-apologetic tone. "Silence!
"God help me, Muster Jennings: why my wages are but eight, and my hovel scarcely better than a pig-pound." "Look you, Acton; tell Sir John what you have told me, and you are a ruined man. Make it twelve to his honour, as others shall do: who knows," he added, half-coaxing, half-soliloquizing, "perhaps his honour may really make it twelve, instead of eight."
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