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I do not know how long this conversation might have gone on in this half-earnest, half-facetious style, with Miss Jorgensen for its object, had not something happened just here to bring it abruptly to a close; and that something was the report of a pistol over our very heads. "Great heaven!" ejaculated Miss Flower, losing all her color and self-possession together.
"Look here, Charles," he said, in the half-earnest, half-joking tone which always used to make Charles laugh, "it will really be too absurd to advertise: 'According to an amicable agreement, from such and such a date the firm of " "I have been thinking," interrupted Charles, quietly, "that we will put: 'According to mutual agreement."
Her chin went up in truly regal state as she calmly, even haughtily, responded to the dazed, half-earnest salutes of the men. With a rare smile a knowing one in which mischief was paramount she spoke to Baldos, giving him her hand to kiss. "Ah, dear Baldos, you have achieved your sweetest triumph the theatrical climax to all this time of plotting. My brother's sister loves you for all this.
Before the party moved away from the platform, a sharp tussle took place between Anthony and the farmer as to the porterage of the bulky bag; but it being only half-earnest, the farmer did not put out his strength, and Anthony had his way. "I rather astonished you, brother William John," he said, when they were in the street. The farmer admitted that he was stronger than he looked.
Word came that he had been very intimate with a certain woman on his way out to Melbourne; a woman supposed to be a foreigner and an actress; and the name of Cettini was whispered. He did not know whence the rumour came; but on one morning Robert Bolton, half-laughing, but still with a tone of voice that was half-earnest, taxed him with having as many loves as Lothario.
Gleim expressed his regret at the circumstance, because they had meant to drink their wine in the garden: upon which Lessing in one of his half-earnest, half-joking moods, nodded to Jacobi, and said, "It is I, perhaps, that am doing that," i.e. raining! and Jacobi answered, "or perhaps I;" Gleim contented himself with staring at them both, without asking for any explanation.
And women of her stamp are sure to be dared by random, half-earnest sentences, to show the very utmost that their weak selves can do. As truly as I tell you the story here to-day, that is the way the ferment began. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." Aye, and a little acid sours the whole lump. Do you think Mrs. Dr.
As for me," he added, and then he turned to us and removed his hat with an exaggerated flourish, "I am your lordship's servant to command." I thanked him with a heartiness, half-earnest, half-assumed. His cloak was ragged, his trunk hose, which had once been fine enough, were stained, and almost pointless, He swaggered inimitably, and had led-captain written large upon him.
Why didn't you paint one, father?" "She would never let me. She had some queer, funny, half-playful, half-earnest superstition about it. But I always meant to when she would become willing to let me. And then she died. Her twin brother Felix died the same day. There was something strange about that, too.
But I claim that it was more than human nature could have done, to endure the open disapproval of my friends, begun by Fred's half-earnest jest, and continued by my own indignation; and at the same time to induce them to take my warning seriously. Will avoided me, and walked with Gloria, who made no particular secret of her disgust.
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