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Updated: May 13, 2025
How well I knew that half-imperious toss of the head, and the glance of those level, large gray eyes, softened instantly, on recognition, into the sweetest smile of welcome playing about the dimple and the expressive mouth! What woman would not feel a little thrill of triumph? The world was at her feet.
Every time a fresh succession of officers thronged the glass doors, the clang of swords rang sharply; many artillery officers pressed through, and some infantry among them. All were making for the door of the same railway carriage, where a tall lady in black, with large, half-melancholy, half-imperious eyes, was standing and bowing. She bent her head slowly, a measured inclination, never more.
Her fingers touched my arm. "Wait! Please wait!" she was urging. There was a half-imperious, half-appealing note in her hushed voice. I stared. "I'm afraid," I said blankly, "that I don't quite " "Some one may suspect. Some one may come," urged this most astonishing young woman. "Don't you see that that I'm trusting you to help me? Won't you stay?"
An estate to be settled some bothering old claim that had been handed down from generation to generation, and now springing into life again by the lapsing of two lives on the other side. But how to tell her as she looked up into my face with the half-pleading, half-imperious smile that I knew so well? How to tell her now?
And she threw a half-laughing, half-imperious glance towards Mrs. Hooper in the distance. Sorell smiled. "I hope you're going to be happy here!" he said earnestly. "I shall be happy enough if I don't quarrel with Aunt Ellen!" "Don't quarrel with anybody! Call me in, before you do. And do make friends with your uncle. He is delightful." "Yes, but far too busy for the likes of me.
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