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She stood above him, looking downwards half-dreamily as one emerging from a deep slumber. "Do you know," she said, beginning to smile, "I thought that you were the Knave of Diamonds?" "You've been asleep," he said rather curtly. She gave a slight shudder as the night air brought her back, and in a moment, like the soft dropping of a veil, her reserve descended upon her.
Apparently satisfied with the gravity and respectful attention of his listeners, Col. Starbottle smiled relentingly and sweetly, closed his eyes half-dreamily, as if to recall his wandering thoughts, and began, "As the spot selected was nearest the tenement of Mr. Hawkins, it was agreed that the parties should meet there. They did so promptly at half-past six. The morning being chilly, Mr.
She looked over his head, out of the window, where the fleecy summer clouds floated idly over the sky. She turned and looked deliberately at the door by which Mrs. Agar had disappeared. It was standing ajar. Then again she reflected, weighing something in her mind. "Yes," she replied half-dreamily at length. "I think you have a right to know there is some one else."
Then, half-dreamily, he watched the little dog whom he had rescued and befriended, and presently found himself vaguely entertained by the graceful antics of the tiny creature which, despite its wounded paw, capered limpingly after its own shadow flung by the moonlight on the greensward, and attempted in its own playful way to attract the attention of its new master and wile him away from his mood of utter misery.
This name made Raoul start; for it seemed that he had already heard it pronounced before, but he could not remember on what occasion. While trying to recall it half-dreamily, yet half-irritated at his conversation with De Wardes, the three young men set out on their way towards the Palais Royal, where Monsieur was residing.
Like the bells of crystal on the sistrums of Isis at Dendarah Temple, he added half-dreamily. We gazed intently at the island. Suddenly, on the sea-wall, moving slowly, rhythmically, we saw a little group of lights. Stanton laughed. "'The beggars! he exclaimed. 'That's why they wanted to get away, is it?
Finally she moved uneasily, took her hand from her cheek, and said half-dreamily, "You aren't a bit talkative." He gulped, swallowed, and laughed. "I'm too busy trying to think of something to say," he told her amusedly. "Oh!" She was provoked in the extreme. "Have I ceased to suggest conversation? You are very tired of me, then." "Quite the contrary. So far from it, you paralyze my tongue."
This name made Raoul start; for it seemed that he had already heard it pronounced before, but he could not remember on what occasion. While trying to recall it half-dreamily, yet half-irritated at his conversation with De Wardes, the three young men set out on their way towards the Palais-Royal, where Monsieur was residing.
Neither of them had read many pages, but as the strong radiance began to soften about them on the height, and the breeze from the Saronic Gulf came to them with a more feathery warmth and freshness over the smiling bareness of the Attic Plain, Dion, who had been half-dreamily turning the leaves of his little book, said: "Rosamund." "Yes?"
She had half-dreamily opened her eyes and looked up at first, but there was nothing 'fatigued' in the way the eyes went down again, nor in the quick skill with which the scarf was caught up and flung round her, fold after fold, until she was muffled and turbaned like an Egyptian. Then she rose demurely to her feet. 'I thank you, sir, for arousing me. Is Mr. Falkirk here? 'No I am alone.
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