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Will you tell Baker to come tomorrow to talk it over with me? If we are to have a house party, I should like to put him to work on it at once." Noble gave her a glance, half-humorous, half-vexed. "Do you know I am rather disappointed?" he said. "I had almost hoped that, just for once, you know, you would be a little bit foolish."
Many serious letters and a half-humorous criticism in Punch suggest that I am to be regarded as the apostle of a pure materialism. That is not so. I quite recognise the existence of other ambitions in the walks of Art, Religion, or Literature. But at the very outset I confined the scope of my advice to those who wish to triumph in practical affairs.
Vida made a shrug of half-impatient, half-humorous assent. 'Leaves the Bishop's Palace and comes to London. He, too, wants "to live for the poor." Never for an instant one of them. Always the patron the person something may be got out of or, at all events, hoped from.
Canon Wilton was standing behind her, and presently heard her sigh gently, and almost voluptuously, as if she prolonged the sigh and did not want to let it go. "Yes?" he said, with a half-humorous inflection of the voice. Rosamund looked round gravely. "Did you say something?" "Only yes? in answer to your sigh." "Did I? Yes, I must have. I was thinking "
He frowned slightly and gave the case back to his brother. "Have a cigarette!" said Scott. He took one absently, and Scott did the same. "How did you get on with the lady in red?" he asked. Eustace threw him a glance half-humorous, half-malicious. "If it comes to that, how did you get on with the little brown girl?" "Oh, very nicely," smiled Scott. "Her name is Dinah.
The consul, from some instinctive impulse, perhaps a recollection of Custer's peculiar methods, gave her a sign of warning. But the Englishman only lifted his eyebrows in a kind of half-humorous concern. "I don't think you'd like it, you know. It's a beastly place, rocks and sea, worse than this, and half the time you can't see the mainland, only a mile away.
But as the color surged into Brant's cheek he raised his eyes to the ceiling, and said, in half-humorous recollection, "No, I think THAT fact was first gathered from your other friend Mr. Hooker." "Hooker!" said Brant, indignantly; "did he come here?" "Pray don't destroy my faith in Mr. Hooker, General," said the President, in half-weary, half-humorous deprecation.
"You know Mr. Custer, don't you?" "We are old Californian friends." "I thought so; but I think he looked a little upset when he heard you were here, too." He certainly was a little awkward, as if struggling with some half-humorous embarrassment, as he came forward a few moments later with Mrs. Kirkby.
'What are we to do? asked Peter. 'We can't get home, but it seems to me, Floss, that this is worse for poor Dickory than the workhouse. 'I'll tell you what, said Flossy suddenly, raising her bright half-humorous face to Peter's, 'let's take baby to the lady what cried. 'The lady who cried? repeated Peter. 'I don't know nothing about her, Floss.
The visitor took the offered elbow-chair, folded his hands on the top of his old-fashioned walking-cane, and glanced at his landlord with a half-humorous, half-quizzical expression.
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