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The man who held the lantern and looked at him in silence with a half-deprecating air was a middle-aged man, bearded and bare-headed. He had thrown over his shoulders a piece of sacking, that hung from him almost like a robe.
"O, Tom, you look so funny!" Tom had a sober, benevolent smile, and seemed, in his quiet way, to be enjoying the fun quite as much as his little mistress. He lifted his eyes, when he saw his master, with a half-deprecating, apologetic air. "How can you let her?" said Miss Ophelia. "Why not?" said St. Clare. "Why, I don't know, it seems so dreadful!"
It makes me feel old enough to be your grandmother." He glanced up, half-questioning, half-deprecating. "That would be the oddest thing of all, unless I really appear to be about twenty years before my time." For a reason she could not have fathomed, she looked into his eyes with a sudden seriousness and said: "I was thirty-two last week."
But she had never been indulged so recklessly in personalities before, and she did not quite know how to meet them. She wanted to say the right thing, to respond absolutely to his mood; a smile, half-deprecating, half-charmed, fluttered on her lips when Rodney talked in this fashion, but even to herself her words seemed ill-chosen and clumsy.
His companion perceived that he intended to shove off as soon as the other should have taken his place. Sam frustrated that, however, by holding fast to the gunwale. May-may-gwán stepped in amidships, with a half-deprecating glance at the young man's inscrutable back. At the end of the brief paddling the upper pool allowed them, she was first ashore.
And yet so potent was its individuality that it required no signature. No one but John Milton Harcourt could have written it. His personality stood out of it so strongly that once or twice Mrs. Ashwood almost unconsciously put up her little hand before her face with a half mischievous, half-deprecating smile, as if the big honest eyes of its writer were upon her.
Gracie was not doubtful of Maggie, nor of Bessie, nor yet of Belle Powers and Fanny Leroy; in fact, she knew she would be received kindly by the majority of the members, but about Lily and two or three others she had her misgivings, and hence that doubtful, half-deprecating glance at the former, who stood at Maggie's elbow.
"If you can find them!" suggested the Judge, with a very perceptible sneer. "That we shall certainly do. Trust to Block, who is very nearly concerned. His future depends on his success. You quite understand that, my man?" Block made a gesture half-deprecating, half-confident. "I do not despair, gentlemen; and if I might make so bold, sir, I will ask you to assist?
Don't you know you are doing wrong? I am astonished to see you so careless," she added, smiling. It was the first time Pedro had seen her smile in any but a grave, quiet way. Now, accompanied as it was with the half-playful, half-deprecating manner in which she uttered her chiding, it proved too much for him. "Dona," he said, "I am going away to-morrow.
"He's got to begin school next week," she said to Westover; and at the preparations the other now began to make with a piece of paper and a planchette which he had on the table before him, she asked, in the half-mocking, half-deprecating way which seemed characteristic of her: "You believe any in that?" "I don't know that I've ever seen it work," said the painter.
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