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"Is it the little home on the hill?" said the half-indignant caleche driver, "well, to be sure I know it as well as I do the nose on my face; step in sur, and: you'll soon see if I do or not." Jumping hastily up, Guy settled himself for, as he hoped, the last drive to the first part of the success he strove so hard to win.
If you don't come to the point at once, and tell me who I she is, I'll throttle you where you stand; and so give you warning." Half-indignant, and wholly laughing, Ormiston stepped back out of the way of his excited friend. "I cry you mercy! In one word, then, I have been dispatched by a lady in search of you, and that lady is Leoline."
"You know the Fourth, then?" rejoined the man, as he witnessed the agitation of my manner. "Know the Fourth?" echoed his comrade, in a voice of half-indignant meaning. "Sacrebleu!who does not know them? Does not all the world know them by this time?" "It is the Fourth who wear the motto 'Dix contre un' on their caps," said I, desirous to flatter the natural vanity of my companions.
Tom, it appeared, was supposed capable of turning his father out of doors, and of making the future in some way tragic by his wickedness. This was not to be borne; and Maggie jumped up from her stool, forgetting all about her heavy book, which fell with a bang within the fender, and going up between her father's knees, said, in a half-crying, half-indignant voice,
Then she blushed in turn, first a little color of half-indignant rebuke, then a warm hue as she thought of her unnecessary earnestness, then a deep crimson as there rushed over her the sudden recollection of the hours she had spent in Buckingham's company, and the silent admiration which she had bestowed from the shelter of ignorance upon this gentleman who now sat composedly before her.
The half-indignant remonstrance that vibrated in Deronda's voice came, as often happens, from the habit of inward argument with himself rather than from severity toward Gwendolen: but it had a more beneficial effect on her than any soothings. Nothing is feebler than the indolent rebellion of complaint; and to be roused into self-judgment is comparative activity.
"Oh!" she replied, in a half-troubled, half-indignant tone, for she was out of touch with the occasion of his suit, and every woman has in her mind the time when she should and when she should not be wooed. "Oh, why aren't you plain with me? I hate enigmas." "Why do I not speak plainly?
Observing that the last of the suite of book-rooms furthest from the armoury had still a door into the room beyond, I proceeded to try it, thinking to know at a glance whether it would suit me, and whether it was likely to be yielded for my purpose. It opened, and, to my dismay, there stood Clara Coningham, fastening her collar. She looked sharply round, and made a half-indignant step towards me.
The boy finished his sketch, with an impudent wink at the model, flung himself back on his chair, folded his arms, cast a discontented glance at the whitened seams of the sleeves, and soon seemed lost in his own reflections. The painter worked on in silence. The model, whom Gabriel's wink had aroused, half-flattered, half-indignant for a moment, lapsed into a doze.
But her half-indignant, half-pathetic appeal to him on the dock, the lonely ride in which she had clung to his arm for safety, her tears, and the manner in which she had last spoken to him, had all combined to pierce thoroughly his shell of sullen reserve; and, as we have said, his vivid imagination had taken fire.
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