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Updated: May 14, 2025
I want to to tend to things," faltered Billy, with a half-fearful glance into her husband's face. Billy was hearing very loudly now that accusing "If you'd tend to your husband and your home a little more " Bertram, however, was not hearing it, evidently. Indeed, he seemed never to have heard it much less to have spoken it. "'Tend to things," he laughed lightly.
At last he came up to Charley and softly placed his fingers on the scar, feeling the skull. Charley turned quickly. There was something in the long, piercing look of the surgeon which seemed to come through limitless space to the sleeping and imprisoned memory of Charley's sick mind. A confused, anxious, half-fearful look crept into the wide blue eyes.
But there came the impulse to guard it jealously in his own breast a little longer, to glory secretly in it; half-fearful, too, that some virtue would go out of it should he impart it too soon to another. "Why do you want to know?" "Ruel Follett would join our Church if he didn't have to marry more than one wife.
And so, with a renewal of bitterness and active rebellion, lately unknown to him, he moved away down the great room past bronze athlete and marble goddess, past oriental jars, tall as himself, uplifted on the squat, carven, ebony stands, past strangely-painted, half-fearful, lacquer cabinets, past porcelain bowls filled with faint sweetness of dried rose-leaves, bay, lavender, and spice, past trophies of savage warfare and, hardly less savage, civilised sport, towards the wide mullion-window of the eastern bay.
As she thus pressed her countenance with convulsive eagerness against the cold bars, the young people caught the contagion of inexpressible and half-fearful sadness they approached almost respectfully "Do you want anything here?" said the eldest and boldest of the boys. "I I surely this is Dale Cottage?"
"By all means," she said decisively. "We can face these mysteries better by daylight, and we've had enough excitement for one night." So they all paddled hard while the girls' eyes remained fixed in half-fearful, half-hopeful expectation upon the shadowy shore. For these girls were outdoor girls, and adventure was the breath of life to them.
I went right off to get the doctor. He said that it wouldn't amount to anything that all Monsieur needed was rest." As Risler closed the door Pere Achille added, under his breath, with the half-fearful, half-audacious insolence of an inferior, who would like to be listened to and yet not distinctly heard: "Ah! 'dame', they're not making such a show on the first floor as they are on the second."
I find it difficult to recapture the peculiar horror of the next few minutes, during which, half-fearful of entering the cottage, Gatton and I stood in the little sheltered garden adjoining the porch looking down at the body of this man who had met his end under my roof, in circumstances at once dreadful and incomprehensible.
Apparently they had not heard Julian's knock, for they started apart, when the door was opened, like conspirators. There was something half-fearful, half-malicious in Fenn's face, as he stared at them. "What are you doing here?" he demanded. "What's wrong?" Julian closed the door. "A great deal," he replied curtly.
"Ay, storm," he said mechanically, and his heart pounded within his breast, and his breath came and went heavily. Then, in the pause which followed, he started and looked towards the lean-to as a sound came from that direction. He was half-fearful of his sleeping brother.
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