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After some half-jesting observations, expressive of surprise that a young man and consequently, as she deemed, a gay one should have selected as his residence an unvisited quarter and a very retired house, she took my arm, and proceeded to the dinner-room.
With the changes indicated, she was the same bright little "enigma in brown" that had so fascinated Van Berg the first day of her arrival, and led him to make the half-jesting prediction to Stanton that had been so thoroughly fulfilled.
To Lady Lucy he never spoke of Oliver's opinions, except in a half-jesting way; to other people he did not speak of them at all. Ferrier's affections were deep and silent. He had not found it possible to love the mother without loving the son had played, indeed, a father's part to him since Henry Marsham's death. He knew the brilliant, flawed, unstable, attractive fellow through and through.
"What do you call a noble character, my dear young lady?" The half-jesting, half-patronising manner irritated Agatha; but she answered boldly: "A man honest in his principles, faithful to his word; just, generous, and honourable." "What a category of qualities! How interested young ladies are in a pale, thin boy!
It was a terrible moment when he had first to tell Mrs. Bower that he could not discharge his due to her. He tried to put on a half-jesting air, to make out that his difficulty was of the most passing kind. Mrs. Bower ungraciously bade him not to trouble himself, to pay as soon as he could. But when the second day of default came, the landlady was even less gracious.
Steady to the last in his loyalty to Parliaments, as steady in his resistance to mere personal rule, it was with a smile as fearless as the smile with which he penned the half-jesting words of his Utopia that he sealed them with his blood on Tower Hill. "There are many things in the Commonwealth of Nowhere that I rather wish than hope to see embodied in our own."
The chaplain suggested a prayer with him, and Penny agreed in the half-jesting words: "But you'll have to do it all for me, just as you poured the tea down. I'm no good at that sort of thing." And, when the prayer was over, he said with his old haughtiness: "You know, padre I was thinking while you prayed.
"But, of course," he continued, in a half-earnest, half-jesting tone, "when one considers the wine at the first holy communion, and at the marriage of Cana, and the juice of the grapes King David enjoyed, once lay in Jewish cellars!" Benedict had doubtless expected a smile or approving word from his host, but the smith's bearded face remained motionless, as if he were dead.
Kitty, her father's half-jesting words filling her with a deep alarm, had meanwhile raced up to the spare room. Somehow, on this dreadful day, anything seemed possible, certainly anything that was terrible, and she remembered suddenly that the spare bedroom was the very hottest room in the house. It was over the kitchen, and caught every possible gleam of sunshine from morning till evening.
"And when the Duke does break loose," replied Louis, somewhat nettled, "I warrant you will see their faces soon enough, and remember them for the rest of your life." The half-jesting remark was thus destined to become a gloomy prophecy. This was the only important action daring the campaign.
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