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Horncastle was hardly prepared to hear these ingenuous domestic details, but she smiled vaguely, although she could not suppress a somewhat impatient movement with her hands. Even Barker noticed it, but to her surprise moved a little nearer to her, and in a half-entreating way said, "I hope I don't bore you, but it's something confidential. Do you know that she first REFUSED me?" Mrs.
I recognised their tender, half-entreating, half-commanding gaze, I knew the little fleeting, wistful smile which said so little and yet so much I felt that the striving, ambitious spirit of this man had sought mine as the help and completion of his own uplifting, and that I had misunderstood him and turned from him at the crucial moment when all might have been well.
Kaba Rega carried off the stool to the south, or rather the west, of Victoria Nyanza, and bided his time, while Mtesa wrote a half-defiant and half-entreating letter to Gordon, asking him to spare Unyoro.
But if the shy maiden, whose half-entreating, compassionate tones had interrupted the harsh rasping of his saw years ago, were the type of the woman whom he should meet that evening, might not the bitterest punishment of his folly be still before him?
A breakfast-cup was brought to him, and a few drops were put into his mouth; but he soon made it manifest that he would take nothing more of a description so perfectly innocent. "A drop of brandy just a little drop," said he, half-ordering, and half-entreating. "Ah, Roger!" said Lady Scatcherd. "Just a little drop, Louis," said the sick man, appealing to his son.
Who loves me better? except yourself and who would take such tender care of me?" "Mamma, I would guard her with my life!" exclaimed Edward earnestly. "My dear son, I do not doubt it," Mrs. Travilla answered, turning upon her father a half-inquiring, half-entreating look. "If no older or more experienced person can be found."
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