half-insistent

Updated: May 6, 2025

The man eyed him half stupidly, half timidly. "Well?" Loder insisted. "Well, sir," Renwick responded, with some slowness; "you look the same and you look different. A healthier color, perhaps, sir and the eye clearer." He grew more confident under Loder's half-humorous, half-insistent gaze. "Now that I look closer, sir " Loder laughed. "That's it!" he said. "Now that you look closer.

Katherine Cecil Thurston - The Masquerader