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The stranger listened, and observed her with an attentive gaze, but no approval escaped his lips, no emotion changed the expression of his cold and half-disdainful aspect. Isabel, who was in the character of a jealous and abandoned mistress, never felt so acutely the part she played. Her tears were truthful; her passion that of nature: it was almost too terrible to behold.
He wrote a brief, not unfriendly letter to Franks, urging him to return to his better mind the half-disdainful, half-philosophical resignation which he seemed to have attained a month ago. The answer to this was a couple of lines; "Thanks. Your advice, no doubt, is well meant, but I had rather not have it just now. Don't let us meet for the present."
And there is something noble shall I say? in his half-disdainful way of serving himself with what he still, as I think, secretly values over-much. There is an air of seemly thought le bel serieux about him, which makes me think of one of those grave old Dutch statesmen in their youth, such as that famous William the Silent. July 1705.
My politeness did not meet with much of a reception, for the impudent scoundrel answered me, as he pocketed the money, that he remembered having lent it me at Presburg, but he also remembered a more important matter. "And pray what is that?" said I, in a dry and half-disdainful tone. "You owe me a revenge at the sword's point, as you know right well.
In the mean while he sipped his tea, and glanced over the newspapers with that quick and half-disdainful eye with which your practical man in public life is wont to regard the abuse or the eulogium of the Fourth Estate. There is very little likeness between Mr. Egerton and his half-brother; none, indeed, except that they are both of tall stature, and strong, sinewy, English build.
Of her own proud, half-disdainful consent to make possible the hackneyed compromising situation by marrying the rascal, and then of his disappearance from the train. It was so terrible to her, such a Heaven-sent relief to me, in spite of my rage against Sullivan, that I laughed aloud. At which she looked at me over the handkerchief. "I know it's funny," she said, with a catch in her breath.
The Frenchman feeling himself among comrades worthy of his steel, and secretly pricked by the presence of an English cabinet minister, relinquished the half-disdainful reserve with which he had entered, and took pains. He drew the man in question, en silhouette, with a hostile touch so sure, an irony so light, that his success was instant and great. Lord Lackington woke up.
He was not in the least overawed by the hostile glances of the statesmen. On the contrary, his lips perceptibly curled, in a half-disdainful smile, as he took the big hand which the President extended to him. As soon as Cosmo Versal had sunk into the embrace of a large easy chair, the President opened the subject.
Let me entreat your permission to retire." Without awaiting the empress's reply, he made a hasty bow, and fled from the room. The empress looked after him in utter astonishment. "What has come over the man?" said she to herself. "He looks as if he had seen a ghost! Well I suppose it is nothing more than a fit of eccentricity." And she flung back her head with a half-disdainful smile.
And there is something noble shall I say? in his half-disdainful way of serving himself with what he still, as I think, secretly values over-much. There is an air of seemly thought le bel sérieux about him, which makes me think of one of those grave old Dutch statesmen in their youth, such as that famous William the Silent. July 1705.
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