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Men, women, and children ran down to the water's edge, waving their hats and handkerchiefs or brandishing their arms in joyous welcome, and even old, gray-haired, and feeble women, who could not get as far as the shore, stood in front of their little houses, now gazing at us in half-incredulous amazement, and then crossing themselves devoutly with bowed heads, as if thanking God that siege and starvation were over and help and food at hand.
The sad eyes smiled at her from the bed, half-gratified, half-incredulous, like the eyes of a lonely child who listens to a fairy-tale. "It was like him to think of that, Biddy. But I wish he had stayed a little longer. I must get up and go and find him." "Hasn't he been with ye through the night?" asked Biddy, bent again to her task. "Nearly all night long!"
A second time he pointed with a desperate insistency at Travers then with a sudden quick-drawn sigh he sank back, his face against Lois' shoulder. Colonel Carmichael, who knew death too well, rose heavily to his feet. "It's all over," he said. "We can do nothing more for him, and we must leave him. Come, Lois." His stern command roused her from her stupor of half-incredulous sorrow.
Large masses of working people had gathered in the manufacturing districts in savage independence. The agricultural labourers had been debased by the abuses of the old Poor-law into a condition upon which one looks back now with half-incredulous horror. Meanwhile, the distress of the labourers became more and more severe. How changed, thank God! is all this now.
"Jest sharpened the other eends o' 'em, an' sold 'em for oats!" The puzzled, half-incredulous stare, on the countenance of the Hibernian, was ridiculous in the extreme.
Then, feeling that this had taken away half her pain, she was borne upon her solitary journey. There is not in the world a more exquisite sight than a beautiful old age. It is almost better than a beautiful youth. Early loveliness passes away with its generation, and becomes at best only a melancholy tradition recounted by younger lips with a half-incredulous smile.
I encouraged my comrades by telling them that the lake was between us and that, and not more than half a mile distant. We soon reached the bottom, where we found a small stream and quite an extensive alder swamp, evidently the ancient bed of a lake. I explained to my half-vexed and half-incredulous companions that we were probably above the lake, and that this stream must lead to it.
It was nothing a vague word or two a forced laugh and the scared silence of this man Plank, who had blundered on the verge of a confidence to a man he liked. A moment of amazement, of half-incredulous suspicion, of certainty; and Mortimer pounced playfully upon him like a tiger a big, fat, friendly, jocose tiger: "Plank, is that what you're up to!" "Up to! Why, I never thought of such a "
Somehow that little touch, his obvious effort to recall where he had slept, brought strangely home to Darcy the wonderful romance of which he was the still half-incredulous beholder. Sleep till close on dawn in a hammock, then the tramp or probably scamper underneath the windy and weeping heavens to the remote and lonely meadow by the weir!
The speaker reddened unconsciously during her story, a fact not lost on Betty. "Well, I knew most of that before," said Betty, quietly. "And what sort of a time have you been having this ten days?" "I have been very glad to have her here," came the quick reply. "I ought to have known her long ago." Betty looked at the speaker with a half-incredulous smile.
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