United States or Canada ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And as for the Lithuanian servant girl whom he had in the house now, why, of course he would dismiss her next morning, so that the house could be thoroughly aired before she moved in. This was the moment in which a desire came upon her half-ironic, half-compassionate to throw her arms about him and say: "You silly boy!" But she did not yield and in the next moment the impulse was gone.
You mustn't confuse the pleasure of unravelling thought with the pleasure of thought. If you can make yourself so attractive to your readers that they love your explosions and collisions, and say with a half-compassionate delight 'how characteristic but it is worth while unravelling! you have achieved a certain success. But the chance is that future ages won't trouble you much.
Casting a look upon him, half-reproachful and half-compassionate, the schoolmaster took the child in his arms, and bore her away at his utmost speed to a small inn within sight. The landlady came running in, with hot brandy and water, with which and other restoratives, the child was so far recovered as to be able to thank them in a faint voice.
"You said half-compassionate?" "Yes," replied Nasmyth; "I almost think that describes it. You see, I am naturally aware of my own disabilities." "Still," persisted Violet, "she nursed you when you were very ill, and, as you said, set you on your feet again. That would probably count for a good deal with her." Nasmyth made a hasty gesture. "You don't understand.
The fatal hatred which she had sought to stifle gained a new vitality. Another woman another woman actually here in London! So there was someone upon whom he did not look in that half-amused and half-compassionate manner. How she hated him! How she hated the woman to whom he had but a moment ago returned! "Then he will marry this other one?" she said suddenly. "Oh, no. Already he neglects her.
And with an air of supreme and half-compassionate contempt, Lord Lilburne turned away and stirred the fire. Captain Smith muttered and fumbled a moment with his gloves, then shrugged his shoulders and sneaked out. That night Lord Lilburne again received his friends, and amongst his guests came Vaudemont.
Saltash patted his shoulder kindly. "All right. That'll do. Don't be tragic about it! Come along to your burrow and have a good square sleep!" He led him away without further words, and Toby went, gratefully and submissively. A few minutes later Saltash came back with a smile on his ugly face, half-quizzical, and half-compassionate. "Rum little devil!" he commented again as he began to undress.
They served me with the ale, though I suspect it was not the strongest on the premises; and the landlord's wife, opening the little half-door and bending down, gave me a kiss that was half-admiring and half-compassionate, but all womanly and good, I am sure.
For this money we had also the society of an unoccupied waiter, who leaned against a marble column and looked on, with that gentle, half-compassionate interest in our appetites, which seems native to the tribe of waiters.
A half-compassionate, half-mocking smile flitted over the Biamite's copper-coloured visage, and in a tone of patronizing instruction assumed by the better informed, he began: "You are thinking of the face? Why no, child! What that requires can be found in the countenance of no Biamite, hardly even in yours, the fairest of all." "And the goddess's figure?" asked Ledscha eagerly.
Word Of The Day