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Then he flushed a little, his hand clenching on the post beside him. At first the idea was fascinating, but preposterous; he tried to put it from him, but it came back persistently, and his mind held it with a kind of half-fearful excitement. They had said he could not ride him a child's pony! Would he show them? Once he entertained the idea at all he could not let it go.
Nobody, however, troubles about his comrade's antecedents in the West, where many men have a somewhat vivid history. The new land accepts them for what they are in the present, leaving the past to the mother country. So a bargain was made, and the vendor received his first instalments; and as that winter sped I looked forward, half-fearful, half-exultant, to what the coming year should bring.
I'll take tea with Miss Nesbitt as often as she wants, and behave so pretty you'll admire to see me. That's an olive branch to carry in to Aunt Soph eh? I reckon she'll be pretty dusty." "I reckon she will." Elma glanced with a half-fearful smile at her companion's unruffled face. "I wouldn't be in your shoes for a hundred pounds.
But the next moment it leapt with a suffocating sense of mystery, of half-fearful joy, for she saw him coming across the lawn to her, and heard her name, spoken as it had never yet been spoken excepting by him; and she stood, still as a statue, as he held out his hand and, looking into her eyes, murmured her name again. "Ida!" "Ida!"
Some rollicking lambs were skipping near a dignified group of ewes, that looked on with half-fearful, half-disapproving faces. At the pump he saw his stepmother filling a water bucket, and he took it from her hands. "I reckon it is too heavy for you to carry," he said timidly. "'Tain't much to tote," returned Marthy Burr opposingly.
The nurse was so occupied by her task that she did not hear the door open, and it was not until the piper's daughter was close beside her, that she was aware of her presence. Hastily drawing the blankets over the apprentice, she then turned, and regarded Nizza with a half-fearful, half-menacing look. "What brings you here again?" she inquired, sharply.
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."
One day, as he closed the book, his heart was so full of a strange, half-hopeful, half-fearful longing, that it overflowed in tears; and amid his weeping came a memory of Marcian, a tender memory of the days of their friendship: for the first time he bewailed the dead man as one whom he had dearly loved. Then there sounded a knock at the door of his cell.
She didn't get this, but, with the half-fearful tail of her eye for the clock, let him hold her quiescent, while the relentlessly sliding moments ticked against her unease. "I'm jealous of every hour you lived before I met you." "Big-bad-eat-Josie-up-boy!" "I want to kiss your eyes until they go in deep through you I don't know until they hurt deep I want to hurt you " "Oh! Oh! Josie scared!"
Yet one is tempted by the effective contrast to put against that clean and beautiful child some vivid presentation of the average thing, to sketch in a few simple lines the mean and graceless creature of our modern life, his ill-made clothes, his clumsy, half-fearful, half- brutal bearing, his coarse defective speech, his dreary unintelligent work, his shabby, impossible, bathless, artless, comfortless home; one is provoked to suggest him in some phase of typical activity, "enjoying himself" on a Bank Holiday, or rejoicing, peacock feather in hand, hat askew, and voice completely gone, on some occasion of public festivity on the defeat of a numerically inferior enemy for example, or the decision of some great international issue at baseball or cricket.
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