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But, as he was a consistent seeker after "What's Around the Corner," instead of manifesting resentment he only turned a half-embarrassed smile upon the other's grin of amusement. "All in?" asked the intruder, drawing nearer. "Seems so," said Forster. "Now, I thought there was a dollar in " "Oh, I know," said the other man, with a laugh. "But there wasn't.
He arrived breathlessly in the open space before the tree where the bear once lay; the dazed, bewildered, and half-awed expression of his face, as he glanced around him and through the openings of the forest aisles, brought a faint smile to her saddened face. At last he called in a half-embarrassed voice: "Miss Nellie!" The smile faded from Teresa's cheek. Who was "Miss Nellie?"
He laughed off the question, not understanding how or why she came to put it, and their talk passed to a lighter vein. But presently he said, with a half-embarrassed, half-vexed laugh, "Need we sit so far from one another?" May had suffered from a dread of the beginning of sentiment. But she was laughing as she rose and, crossing the room, sat down by him on the sofa.
Vincent set down his cup for the second time, refused buttered bun, and waited. "Yes, do smoke, Mr. Vincent." The man drew out his cigarette-case, smiling, offering it to the two men. Laurie took one; the clergyman refused. "And now, Mr. Vincent." Again he smiled, in a half-embarrassed way. "But no speeches, I think you said," he remarked.
Her glance was freighted with a kind of evasive, half-embarrassed affection; shy, unobtrusive, respectful it was, but altogether friendly and helpful. That the relations between us have ever quite been those of mistress and maid, I cannot affirm.
I don't suppose it's finished yet, because I never play it exactly as I did before. I always seem to add a little bit to it. I do wish that I had had time to know more of music. What little I play I learned from a pianola." "A what?" she gasped. He laughed in a half-embarrassed way. "A pianola," he repeated.
The men sat down around it with a half-embarrassed, half-contemptuous attitude of formality, their bent brows and isolated looks showing little community of sentiment and scarcely an attempt to veil that individual selfishness that was prominent. Still less was there any essay of companionship or sympathy in the manner of Steptoe as he suddenly rapped on the table with his knuckles.
For her it broke down every barrier, every reservation. Louis was able to come down immediately from ecstasy to everyday things. This, she argued, meant that he had not flown so very high after all. He was able to make a laughing, half-embarrassed remark to the effect that he hoped no one else was on the roofs round about. She would not have cared if everyone in Sydney was on the roofs.
"I never start anything I can't finish, I keep telling you, and I'm going to put this deal through, now that I've got it started." With a half-embarrassed laugh and a complete change of manner, he laid his hand upon Boyd's shoulder, saying: "Pal, I ain't much good to myself or anybody else, but I like you and I want to stick around. Maybe I'll come in useful yet you can't tell."
"I'll go and fetch it myself," she said, with a half-embarrassed laugh, and ran to the door. Scarcely understanding her own nervousness, but finding relief in rapid movement, Rose flew lightly up the staircase.
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