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The air was a living splendor, clear and warm, with now and then a breeze that rippled the leaves like the waves of the sea. He looked up from his book, and considered the question half-seriously, half-humorously. "I know how we used to prevent boys from stealing melons in the East," said he. "How?" "Put some tartar emetic in the biggest one.
He did not finish his sentence, but broke into a hurried walk and led me towards the house. A minute later, as we approached it, he began to discourse half-humorously on its more glaring features, and had apparently forgotten his perturbation.
"Why, I shouldn't wonder one of these days. Millionaires always collect something; but I've got to collect my millions first." He spoke coolly and half-humorously, and before he had ended she had lost all interest in his reply. He seemed aware of the fact, for he stood up and held out his hand. "Well, so long, Mrs. Marvell.
He too had wanted to be "modern," had revolted, half-humorously, against the restrictions and exclusions of the old code; and it must have been by one of the ironic reversions of heredity that, at this precise point, he began to see what there was to be said on the other side his side, as he now felt it to be.
She liked the Ronders because they never boasted of their successes, because Alice had a weak heart, because Ronder, who knew her character, half-humorously deprecated his talents, which were, as he knew well enough, no mean ones. She bored Alice Ronder, but Ronder found her useful.
The upshot was that the Murchisons were confined to a few old friends and looked, as we know, half-humorously, half-ironically, for more brilliant excursions, to Stella and "the boys." It was only, however, the pleasure of Mr Lorne Murchison's company that was requested at the Milburns' dance.
He took one of her hands in his, and drew her against him, an arm soothingly about her shoulder. For several minutes of silence Dick idly speculated on what her thoughts might be. "You know, we hard-bitten old fellows " he began half-apologetically, half-humorously. But she made a restless movement of distaste, and cried out: "Are the only ones worth while!
It was caressing, deferential, half-humorously protecting. She liked to shock and soothe them by turns; and they generally yielded themselves gladly, after a little struggle, both to the shocking and to the soothing. Miss Farrow and Helen Brabazon sat down at the further end of the delightful, gladsome-looking room.
I gazed upon the place in perfect dismay, for I had never seen such a shed called a house before. "You must be mistaken; that is not a house, but a cattle-shed, or pig-sty." The man turned his knowing, keen eye upon me, and smiled, half-humorously, half-maliciously, as he said
Pemrose, it's up to you! Turn your backbone into a wishbone." The wreathed figure stepped from the pedestal, a laughing June spot against the wintry grimness of the Man Killer trail. Obligingly the inventor's daughter stepped up, closing her eyes half-humorously, doubling the drooping hands at her panting sides. But, as suddenly, the eyelids were flung up, like shutters from the blue of day.
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