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Such a man as Major, a son of the Renaissance, no Reformer nor careful of any of these things, must have looked on with strange feelings at all the revolutions accomplished before him, the rude jests and songs, the half-jocular broadly humorous assaults, the cry of heresy, the horror of the burnings, the deadly earnest of both preacher and people after Beatoun's well-deserved but terrible end which cut all compromises short.
I was preparing to visit the town on the following morning, when my attention was attracted by a dialogue which took place beneath my window. "I say, my good friend," cried a mounted orderly to Mike, who was busily employed in brushing a jacket, "I say, are you Captain O'Malley's man?" "The least taste in life o' that same," replied he, with a half-jocular expression.
Astonished at his actions, though not at all alarmed or the first thought that occurred to me as that he was trying to catch a young rabbit I called out in a half-jocular tone, well, bubby boy, what is it? He made no reply, but continued that strange murmur of Oh-h-h, Pa-a-a, loo-oo-ook, and took a couple of paces forward, not as though he wished to advance, but more in the style of a person who has leaned too far forward and moves his feet to recover the perpendicular.
But the eyes themselves, as they met Caleb's, were alight with a fire which afterward, when he had had more time to ponder it, made him remember the pictured eyes of the children of the Crusades. They fairly burned into his own, and they checked the first half-jocular words of greeting which had been trembling upon his lips. His voice was only grave and kindly when he began to speak.
The Russians frankly admit that they were beaten in the Crimean War, but they regard the heroic defence of Sebastopol as one of the most glorious events in the military annals of their country. Nor do they altogether regret the result of the struggle. Often in a half-jocular, half-serious tone they say that they had reason to be grateful to the Allies.
Then he wanted to know in a half-jocular way how she felt about going away, and for a long voyage this time. "Does it matter how I feel?" she asked in a tone that cast a gloom over his face. He answered with repressed violence which she did not expect: "No, it does not matter, because I cannot go without you. I've told you . . . You know it. You don't think I could."
"By no means; those which are placed at the entrance of harbours and navigable rivers are defensive. To protect ourselves from the offensive weapon, we use crinolines." My mother looked quickly up at her polite young mentor. "You play with the ignorance of an old woman, sir," she said, with a half-jocular air. "Indeed I do not, madam, I assure you," returned Firebrand, with much earnestness.
For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies' shawls and reticules, the clumsy pretense of gallantry with each other's wives, the anxiety about the company luggage and the company health.
Politics had always been a thing of the gravest import in her eyes, bound up with a man's duty and honour and religion, and lo! here was this Gallio who not only adorned a party she had been led to regard as reprobate, but treated the whole affair as a half-jocular business, on which one should not be serious.
But they were serious I knew they were and I expected every minute to hear that this horrible suggestion was adopted, and that the blacks were to be thrown overboard! But the villains were not unanimous; and for a length of time they continued to discuss the question in the same half-serious, half-jocular way. It was awful to listen to that inhuman debate!
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