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"I am wishing ye to be knocking," he mimicked in a half-fierce, half-laughing voice, "for I am only a wicked gipsy lass"; and again, "My dear, my dear, I'm not seeing much wickedness in a' this, and so I must be creeping out and knockin' on a lass that will not be saying a civil word to me, let alone a kiss in the gloamin'."
So the big mood would pass, and the hard-fighting farmer would be at work again; but whiles, after the laughing, the old longing, half-fierce look would be in Belle's eyes, and I kent it was not Dan or Hamish Og she was thinking of, but her first-born, Bryde. And as the years wore on there was another thing to be watching in Belle.
He'll never fret or drink himself to death he's got enough vitality for twenty men. His face, which had worn a fixed, nervous smile, grew suddenly grave as her own, and his eyes roved round the room in the old half-fierce, half-furtive way. "Well, Gyp," he said, and his voice shook a little: "At last! Won't you kiss me?" The question seemed to Gyp idiotic; and suddenly she felt quite cool.
And, in fact, had the vexed wind been able to break through the wall and embody itself into a substantial being, it would have discovered the producer of the half-fierce, half-mournful noise, in the person of the Honorable Frank Villiers, who, with that amazingly serious ardor so often displayed by amateur lovers of music, was persistently endeavoring to combat the difficulties of the violoncello.
He looked away with a half-fierce expression. "If you don't want me to crush you in my arms out here in a public road, don't do that." "Don't do what?..." innocently; and then they both laughed. When they were serious again his voice sounded a deeper and more forceful note.
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