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'But she has certainly some points. At that moment Lady Driffield gave the signal, and, with a half-ironical bow to his companion, Colonel Danby rose, picked up her handkerchief for her, and drew his chair aside to let her pass. Presently Lucy was sitting in a corner of the magnificent green drawing-room, to which Lady Driffield had carelessly led the way.
"And for what end?" cried Riccabocca, thrown off his guard, and his breast dilated, his crest rose, and his eye flashed; valour and defiance broke from habitual caution and self-control. "But pooh!" he added, striving to regain his ordinary and half-ironical calm, "it matters not to me. I grant, sir, that I know the Count di Peschiera; but what has Dr.
"But to-night ?" "Oh, to-night everything's different to-night. I wonder " She paused. She was leaning back in her chair, with her head against a cushion, looking at him with a slight, half-ironical smile in her eyes and at the corners of her lips. "I wonder," she continued, "what Meyer Isaacson will think." "Of our marriage?" "Yes. Do you suppose it will surprise him?"
Knott's broad, cumbersome back, and high, two-wheeled trap blocked the road, while Timothy, the old groom, stiff-kneed now and none too active, slowly pushed open the heavy, white gate of the inner park. As Richard rode up, the doctor turned in his seat and looked at him from under his rough eyebrows, while his loose lips worked into a half-ironical smile.
Her thick fair hair fell on both sides of her head, braided, but not fastened up into a knot. 'Ah, I beg your pardon! she said with a smile half-embarrassed, half-ironical, instantly taking hold of one end of a plait of her hair and fastening on Sanin her large, grey, clear eyes. 'I did not think you had come yet.
I will send thee after supper, and give fitting charge to Father Elphege." Wilfred was forced to sit down during the meal, but he ate nothing. When it was ended, the baron called old Osbert the seneschal and gave his instructions. They led the youth away; he did not return the baron's half-ironical salutation, but departed with his guards in silence.
When he issued from the powder-room in his gold-laced uniform, with scented gloves and carefully-adjusted queue, he presented the image of a young gentleman so clearly equal to the most flattering emergencies that Alfieri broke into a smile of half-ironical approval.
There had been some displeasures, general and personal, between the two men, and they did not speak; but now, at sight of Northwick, Putney came forward, and fixed him severely with his eye. "Northwick! Do you know who you tried to drive over, last evening?" Northwick returned his regard with the half-ironical, half-patronizing look a dull man puts on with a person of less fortune but more brain.
"Didn't you find it distressingly warm?" "Somewhat so." "I tried to go in to attend to some business that mother was anxious about, and even went down to the depot; but I had to give it up." "Were you overpowered by the heat?" "I was." "How unfortunate!" remarked Gertrude, in a half-compassionate, half-ironical tone of voice. Mr.
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