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The Belgian greeted him with raised eyebrows and the little, half-sad, half-humorous smile which was characteristic of him in his gentler moments. "You were defending our friend with a purpose," he said, in a low voice. "Good! I am afraid he needs it here." The younger man hesitated a moment. Then he said: "I came on purpose to do that. Ste. Marie knows that she saw him on that confounded pig.
He was so very abstracted at that time owing to the pressure his crammer was putting upon him that he certainly hadn't known what he was doing. It was this letter of Mrs Ashburnham's to Mrs Powys that had caused the letter from Colonel Powys to Colonel Ashburnham a letter that was half-humorous, half longing.
For a woman of forty-two, with two children and three books of poems and not knowing which had taken least out of her with hazel-gray eyes, wavy eyebrows darker than they should have been, a glint of red in her hair; wavy figure and lips; quaint, half-humorous indolence, quaint, half-humorous warmth was she not as satisfactory a woman as a man could possibly have married!
Fanny would not like them, nor they her. The luncheon-party had been arranged for Mr. Birch, Fanny's train acquaintance. Diana had asked the Roughsedges, explaining the matter, with a half-deprecating, half-humorous face, to the comfortable ear of Mrs. Roughsedge.
Though Big Tom had waged a lifelong warfare with the bears, and taken the hide off at least a hundred of them, I could not see that he had any vindictive feeling towards the varmint, but simply an insatiable love of killing him, and he regarded him in that half-humorous light in which the bear always appears to those who study him. As to deer he couldn't tell how many of them he had slain.
One was informed that this magnate owned the three tourist hotels and their acres of vine-covered gardens; that he controlled the half-humorous pretense of a street-railway company and that even the huge, dominating rock upon which perched the pavilions and casino of the Strangers' Club was his property.
As a painter of subjects half-humorous and half-pathetic, or as the illustrator of romantic stories, we fancy that he might have won fame rivalled only by the greatest colourists. One such picture it was granted him to paint, and this is his masterpiece. In the prime of life he was commissioned to decorate the choir of the cathedral at Prato with the legends of S. John Baptist and S. Stephen.
You've done a deal too much for him already; and if the sister is as old as Dora " he continued, after a long pause, with a half-humorous relaxation of his features. He was too much worn out to smile. "Yes," said the Curate. The young man was sensible of a sudden flush and heat, but did not feel any inclination to smile. Matters were very serious just then with Frank Wentworth.
In his days of high health Tom would certainly have leaped up and given Stalker a considerable amount of trouble, but starvation and weakness, coupled with self-condemnation and sorrow, had subdued his nerves and abated his energies, so that, when he opened his eyes and found himself surrounded by as disagreeable a set of cut-throats as could well be brought together, he at once resigned himself to his fate, and said, without rising, and with one of his half-humorous smiles
Her voice took up the thread of subject and wove along with faintly upturning, half-humorous intonations for sentence ends as though defying interruption and intervals of shadowy laughter. Dick had told her that Anthony's man was named Bounds she thought that was wonderful!
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