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His heavy eyebrows twitched, and then, with a half-contemptuous shrug of his shoulders he strode out of the room with an air of leaving us to the doom we so justly deserved. "The worst of it is that the second mistake doesn't cancel the first," Anne remarked thoughtfully. She still stood by the great oak table, her hands resting lightly on its dark polished surface.
"If you will listen to me for a few minutes, sir," he said at length. "No!" interrupted Carrington. "It would be a waste of time. You know my views. There is nothing more to be said." Then he committed the crowning act of folly as tightening his grasp on his bridle he turned to the lads behind him. "Drive them off!" he said. The half-contemptuous command was almost insufferably galling.
Contrary to what is popularly supposed, his study of the affairs of the other world had enabled him to deal with this world's affairs with a half-contemptuous facility.
But the favouring wave had only covered for a time it had not swept away the rocks underneath. These were soon to be once more exposed. Charles had accepted the tribute of adulation with the smooth smile, the superficial good-nature, the half-contemptuous courtesy, and the inherent insincerity, of the cynic. His ruling passion was the innate selfishness of the libertine.
And never seek to wed the sister of thy brother's wife. Your Church does not forbid such marriage does it? being still tainted with the Latin heresy. Why does the Orthodox Church forbid it? Because it brings confusion into families, and is indecent. He seemed to jest, but the look he gave to my companion as we rode away was stern, I thought, and more than half-contemptuous.
Victor Carrington looked on, and shared his spoils; but he watched Eversleigh's schemes with a half-contemptuous air. "You think you are doing wonders, my dear Reginald," he said; "and certainly, by means of Mr. Dale's losses, you and I contrive to live to say nothing of our dear Madame Durski, who comes in for her share of the plunder.
"I will pay you eighty pounds a month." "Eighty pounds a month of four weeks," interposed the cautious Larkspur; "eighty pounds for the lunar month. That makes a difference, you know, and it's just as well to be particular." "Certainly!" answered Lady Eversleigh, with a half-contemptuous smile. "You shall not be cheated.
But why did he marry Emmy, loving the sister as he did? Why live apart from her, having married her? And the child? It was all a mystery in which he did not see clear. He pitied the ineffectuality of Septimus with the kind yet half-contemptuous pity of the strong man with a fine nature. But as for his denial of Zora's faith, he laughed it away. Egotistical, yes.
Under Mildred's skilful direction the conversation had drifted into other channels by the time Mr. Wayland returned. Now, all at once, Boyd beheld the magnate in a new guise. Until to-night he had seen in him nothing more than a prospective father-in-law, a stubborn, dominant old fellow whose half-contemptuous toleration, unpleasant enough at times, never really amounted to active enmity.
Nor did she like the half-contemptuous inattention that Weston displayed when one or two of the others addressed him. In several cases he merely looked up and went on with his dinner as though it were too much trouble to answer. Ida felt reasonably sure that his manners would not have been tolerated in most of the primitive logging camps of western Canada.
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