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"We have all had an experience," said Lord George, still looking at her with that half-comic turn of his face, almost as though he were investigating some curious animal of which so remarkable a specimen had never before come under his notice. "No woman ever intended to show a more disinterested friendship than I have done; and what has been my return?"
Unfortunately this time, through some heedlessness, the Spirit did not creep out of the frame-work with sufficient care, and some portion of her garments must have caught when she was only on her knees. I never shall forget the half-comic, half-appealing, feminine glance as her eyes looked up into mine, when she was only partially materialized and some plaguey nail had caught her angel robe.
Puir bairn!" he went on, looking with a half-sad, half-comic face at me "puir bairn like a young bear, wi' a' your sorrows before ye! This time seven years ye'll ha' no need to come speering and questioning what The Cause is, and the Gran' Cause, and the Only Cause worth working for on the earth o' God. And noo gang your gate, and mak' fine feathers for foul birds.
She had come with definite calm intention, precisely in the guise in which she should have been expected. At the very hour, in the very clothes, she was there. Robust and pleasant, with a practical eye on her promising future, she had arrived, the fulfilment of despair. Dr Drummond looked at her with acquiescence, half-cowed, half-comic, wondering at his own folly in dreaming of anything else.
Wilfrid noticed the withdrawing fire of the look. "By heaven! she doubts me still," he ejaculated inwardly. These half-comic little people have their place in the history of higher natures and darker destinies. Wilfrid met Pericles, from whom he heard that Vittoria, with her husband's consent, had pledged herself to sing publicly.
Christie could not help laughing at the half-grave, half-comic way in which this was spoken. "It must be very pleasant to be a belle, however," continued Gertrude, meditatively, "to have all eyes fixed on you in admiration, and to eclipse all the rest of the stars." "But that doesn't often happen, except in books, I fancy," said Christie. "Well, I suppose not. It couldn't happen very often.
Mime, we must remember, is a half-comic personage; and were his music allotted to some heroic man facing an impossible task it would be much the same, save that Wagner would not have so exaggerated the hysterical emotion. To depict a being facing an impossible task with no noble, but with only an ignoble, motive requires such an exaggerated mode of expression.
But though there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half-serious, half-comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the great science of Things in General, which Teufelsdrockh, is supposed to have professed at the university of Nobody-knows-where.
She put it together as best she could from his hurried, excited talk from stories half told, fierce charges against 'charlatans' and 'intriguers, mingled with half-serious, half-comic returns upon himself, attacks on all the world, alternating with a ruthless self-analysis the talk of a man who challenges society one moment with an angry 'J'accuse! and sees himself the next sardonically as the chief obstacle in his own way.
'I say, boys, ejaculated the ex-convict, with an uneasy laugh, half-comic, half-bewildered, 'this is a sort of mix-up, isn't it? I wish Colonel Jim was here to explain. I say, Boss, he cried suddenly, turning sharp on me, 'this here misfit's not my fault. I didn't change the children in the cradle. You don't intend to send me back to that hell-hole, do you?
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