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A half-contemptuous smile crossed Lord Fontenoy's worn face. "Well, really, I'm not inclined to make Lady Maxwell the scapegoat. Let them bear their own misdeeds." "Besides, what worse can you say of English Ministers than that they should be led by a woman?" said Mr. Watton, from the bottom of the table, in a piping voice. "In my young days such a state of things would have been unheard of.
The latter, without seeming disconcerted, looked fixedly at the priest, and said to him, in a half-sorrowful, half-contemptuous voice, "Only, reverend father, do not say 'fortunately. You are an Italian: say, 'What a pity that it is not so!"
Then came in tones of triumph: "I'll bet high on the Jedge!" He dropped the revolver on the floor, and fled from the room. The first feeling of the crowd of men was utter astonishment, but in a moment or two this gave place to half-contemptuous sympathy.
Yet in truth if veiled ladies flit thus through your apartments in the light of day, it will reach the ears of the holy but violent Issachar, of whose doings I come to speak. Then, Prince, I tremble for you." Aziel made a movement half-impatient and half-contemptuous. "The woman is a serving-maid," he said, "who brought me a message that I understand but little.
The Italian, in the full consciousness of her power, returned Anna's scorn with a half-mocking, half-contemptuous smile; she then fixed her great, piercing eyes upon the music, and began to sing.
But the laughter of the Limpets drowned the rest, in the midst of which he retired miserably to the door and escaped. In the passage outside he met Bloomfield, with Wibberly and Game, hurrying to the scene of the riot. They scarcely deigned to recognise him with anything more than a half-curious, half-contemptuous glance.
'For a time we were watched by two hostile aeroplanes; then our own came up and asked them not to, and the practice of aerial warfare still being unknown they very politely desisted and went away and did dives and circles of the most charming description over the Fox Hills. All Barnet's accounts of his military training were written in the same half-contemptuous, half-protesting tone.
And Kullrich ah, poor Kullrich, he had consumption, like his mother. The corners of Wolfgang's mouth drooped with a half-contemptuous, half-compassionate smile when he thought of his school-fellows. Was that living? Oh, and to live, to live was so beautiful!
"And, for myself, I am not at all anxious to marry," said Ulrica, throwing her head back proudly, and casting a half-contemptuous, half-pitiful look at Amelia. "I have no wish to marry. Truly, I have not seen many happy examples of wedded life in our family. All my sisters are unhappy, and I see no reason why I should tread the same thorny path." The king smiled.
A little half-contemptuous smile curled her lips. "It's a funny thing, Joel, you've known me for quite a spell thirty-seven years, the sixth of October and you haven't found out yet that I'm not looking for an easy time. My idea of Heaven ain't a place where you can sit down and fold your hands." "I s'pose you'd rather stick at home and fuss over other folks' children than travel.
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