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"But, father," said Benjy, "since you have taken the liberty to trifle with my nose, I feel entitled to remark that we can't sail in waters, either hot or cold, without a ship." "That's true, boy," rejoined the Captain. "However," he added, with a half-humorous curl of his black moustache, "you know I'm not given to stick at trifles. Time will show.
It occurs in one of his half-humorous stories, where a cataleptic man, suddenly waking in a narrow bed, in the smell of earthy mould, believes he has been interred, but finds himself mistaken. In the "Fall of The House of Usher" the wretched brother, with his nervous intensity of sensation, hears his sister for four days stirring in her vault before she makes her escape.
"And if you don't 'do them good'?" he asked, with the same half-humorous, half-sarcastic smile. "If we don't, the senior partner in our highly-esteemed, sailor-sweating firm, will tell Guest and myself that we 'made a most reprehensible mistake, and have put the firm to a considerable loss by doing too much on our own responsibility."
From it she derived a half-humorous, half-vindictive satisfaction, for she was a keen student of human nature, and no one knew better than she that after the cutting words had left his lips proud-spirited young Martin scorned himself for having been goaded into uttering them. A tantalizing creature, Ellen Webster!
But the banker flung his arms aloft in a gesture of half-humorous despair. "Oh-h! These young ladies!" he cried. "They do not know what they want. What pleases to-day, displeases to-morrow. It is 'Yes' and 'No, 'Yes' and 'No, until one must decide for them. That, after all, is best." He paused abruptly. "This comes upon me like a flood, my friends.
Griggsby, a woman at work mending carpet on the seventh floor which is his saw him come out of the elevator carrying it, and let himself into his room. There the trail ends." "Ends?" As my voice halted young Gilbert's word came like a bullet. "The trail can't end unless the man was there." "Or the suitcase," little old Sillsbee quavered, and Worth Gilbert gave him a swift, half-humorous glance.
That is lung-trouble in a manner o' speakin'." "Lung-trouble's good," said the old man. "Vairy good. You're a good little lad, Brand. You help me in my hour o' need...." "Father!" came the stern voice from the back seat. The old man began to flap with his elbows. "There she goes, givin' tongue! Is that you, Miss?" he called, in his half-humorous whimper. "You wasn't meant to hear that.
She was born to the knowledge, and scarcely thought it a matter to be proud of. "Insanity is not a fit subject for fiction," she announced positively. "There's the well-known case of Hamlet," Mr. Hilbery interposed, in his leisurely, half-humorous tones. "Ah, but poetry's different, Trevor," said Aunt Eleanor, as if she had special authority from Shakespeare to say so. "Different altogether.
At last, when teapots and cups had disappeared, leaving a clear table, and the young women, after grace had been duly sung, sat opposite to one another with a look of amused expectation as to what might be coming next, Thomas rose deliberately from his arm-chair, which he had drawn to the head of the table, and looking round on the young people with a half-serious, half-humorous expression, said: "Well, I suppose, girls, it may be as well if I tell you what I've asked you here for this evening."
Rick could appreciate how worried his friends must have been in spite of their half-humorous report. "Lefty spoke up," Steve continued. "It was the only time he spoke. He's said nothing since. He said, 'There's a first-aid kit in the kitchen. We got it, and went to work on you. Of course we put in a call to the police, and asked for an ambulance.
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