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"Addio, signorino!" he said, sweeping off his hat with the wild, half-impudent gesture that was peculiar to him. "I kiss your hand and I kiss the hand of your signora." He bent down his head as if he were going to translate the formal phrase into an action, but Maurice drew back. "Addio, Salvatore," he said. His voice was low. "Addio, Maddalena!" he added. She murmured something in reply.
He spoke to Batouch with intense vivacity in Arabic, at the same time shooting glances half-obsequious, half-impudent, wholly and even preternaturally keen and intelligent at Domini. Batouch replied with the dignified languor that seemed peculiar to him. The colloquy continued for two or three minutes. Domini thought it sounded like a quarrel, but she was not accustomed to Arabs' talk.
Chupin listened to this homily with a half-cringing, half-impudent air; when it was finished he lifted his head, and said, proudly: "I do not ask for alms." "What do you ask then?" "My dues." The heart of Mme. Blanche sank, and yet she had courage to cast a glance of disdain upon the speaker, and said: "Ah! do I owe you anything?"
The lady looked at him with an odd, half-impudent, half-girlish, and wistful scrutiny. "I say," she began, and stopped. "Yes?" "I say why ever did you come?" The short question that expressed her wondering curiosity might well have driven any thoughtful man into tears. And Julian, young and careless as he often was, felt something of the terror and the pain enshrined in it.
There was a sixth plate laid, but the captain made no further mention of the person who was not out yet till shortly after the coffee was poured, when the absentee appeared, hastily closing his state-room door behind him, and then waiting on foot, with a half-impudent, half-intimidated air, while Captain Jenness, with a sort of elaborate repressiveness, presented him as Mr. Hicks.
"Hallo, Bultitude!" he said, "I thought it was you. Here we are again, eh? Ugh!" and he giggled dismally. He was a pale-faced boy with freckles, very light green eyes, long, rather ragged black hair, a slouching walk, and a smile half-simpering, half-impudent. Mr. Bultitude was greatly staggered by the presumption of so small a boy venturing to address him in this way.
She knows nothing. The camel is ready." The girl spoke to him again with great rapidity, and an air of half-impudent familiarity that sickened Mrs. Armine. Something seemed to have roused within her a sense of boisterous humour. She gesticulated with her painted hands, and rocked on her mattress with an abandon almost negroid.
But his head was bent again in that curious attitude of listening; and after a moment he made an almost imperceptible gesture of acquiescence, and turned to her with the old, easy, half-impudent, half-challenging air. "Gray has a butterfly in his collection which shows four distinct forms.
She knew that there had been moments in her life in which her great love for her sister had been tinged with envy. No young lad had ever waited in the dusk to hear the sound of her footfall; no half-impudent but half-bashful glances had ever been thrown after her as she went through the village on her business.
"Some of him we can't keep. The quaint old gray twinkle the quiet, half-impudent, wholly confident poise with which he defied all comers that inexhaustible and incorrigible fund of humor those we lose. No use to whine we lose it; write it off, gulp, go on. "But other things we keep, none the less. The stimulus and impetus and inspiration are not lost, and shall not be.
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