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There was something splendid in his bearing that sent a thrill of admiration down Courtland's spine as he watched, his habitual half-cynical smile of amusement still lying unconsciously about his lips, while a new respect for the country student was being born in his heart.
God somehow neglected to give us a chick probably we would have neglected Him for it. We love children. So we've cottoned all the more to Sue." "I understand that Sue and I are intended for each other," observed Garrison, a half-cynical smile at his lips. "God bless my soul! How did you guess?" "Why, she said so." Major Calvert chuckled. "God bless my soul again! That's Sue all over.
"There's one thing you can do for me, York.... I'm out of the game, but I want you to make a new start.... I got you into this life, boy. Quit it, and live straight. There's nothing to it, York." The cowboy-bandit choked. "Don't you worry about me, cap. I'm all right. I'd just as lief quit this deviltry, anyhow." "I want you to promise, boy." A whimsical, half-cynical smile touched Leroy's eyes.
The shining counter, the placards advertising strange mixtures with ice cream as their basis, the busy men behind the counter, the half-cynical, half-pitying eyes of the girl in the cage where you bought the soda checks.
Then, with a half-cynical, half-melancholy scrutiny of his companion, he said, after a pause, 'What a faculty of hero-worship you have always had, Elsmere! 'Do you know anything of the end? Robert asked him presently, as that tolling bell seemed to bring the strong feeling beneath more irresistibly to the surface. 'No, I never asked! cried Langham, with sudden harsh animation.
As a private soldier may take pleasure in standing on a great battlefield noting each spot of interest here a valley of death, there the scene of a cavalry charge of which the thunder will echo down through all the ages so Concha, a mere country priest, liked to pace the aisles of a great cathedral, indulging the while in a half-cynical pride.
"There's one thing to remember," he said. "What?" "All the troubles of this world are born with wings." Risley laughed, as he spoke, in his half-cynical fashion. As Robert walked home for there was no car due he felt completely desolate. It seemed to him that everybody was in league against him.
"Yes; or to be led straight by a good influence, such as yours." He did not meet her thoughtful gaze. He was apparently watching the retreating form of the horse through the tangle of flower and leaf and tendril. "I am afraid," said the girl, "that my influence is not of much account." "Do you really believe that?" asked Meredith, turning upon her with a half-cynical smile.
"Perhaps they would have been showing good judgment," replied Aldous. He noticed now that she was holding with one hand the end of a long slender sapling which a week or two before he had cut and trimmed for a fish-pole. He nodded toward it, a half-cynical smile on his lips. "Were you going to fish me out or the colt?" he asked. "You," she replied. "I thought you were in danger."
She had seen him leaning against the door-post, a half-cynical, half-kindly smile floating through his gold moustache. "Do you think he will like the music you are going to give at the next concert? He is coming, I suppose?" "It is just possible he may arrive in time; but I should hardly think so.
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