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Ventimore could not repress a shudder. Hitherto he had never been able to take Fakrash quite seriously, in spite of all his supernatural powers; he had treated him with a half-kindly, half-contemptuous tolerance, as a well-meaning, but hopelessly incompetent, old foozle. That the Jinnee should ever become malevolent towards him had never entered his head till now and yet he undoubtedly had.
"I have done with hate," she answered. "It is not my business what papa likes to do." "Sensible at last!" cried Mr. Dundas with a half-mocking, half-kindly triumph in his voice. Leam turned pale. "But you must not think that I forget mamma as you do," she said with emphasis, her lip quivering.
The half-kindly look disappeared from her eyes, and the hard lines settled into an expression of malevolent repulsiveness. "He was my best friend," I said sadly; and then I described the leading events of the tragedy I had witnessed. The old woman listened closely, and with hardly the movement of a muscle, to the tale I told. "And you think he left his job to you?" she said with a sneer.
While she went out again, after something she had forgotten, one of the Frenchmen whispered bashfully to Pennington, who was Francis's assistant. He smiled his slow, half-mocking, half-kindly smile, and passed it on to Francis. "Ba'tiste says that he wonders if the lady would sit down and eat with us. Do you think she would, Ellison? It's a long time since any of us had a lady keep house for us."
'Harry, said he, half-kindly, and choking, 'you're better out of it. 'I'm the best friend he could have by him, sir. 'You're the best tool he could have handy, for you're a gentleman. 'I hope I shan't offend you, grandfather, but I must go. 'Don't you see, Harry Richmond, you're in for an infernal marriage ceremony there! 'The young lady is not of age, interposed my aunt. 'Eh?
"Ah, Miss! it is a lone place for one so beautiful as you are to be alone. You ought never to be on foot." The girl stopped, and looked full, but without any alarm in her eyes, into the man's face. "Go away!" she said, with a half-peevish, half-kindly tone of command. "I don't know you."
Her brain merely filtered learning like a sieve; but she thought Maria Edgham was a wonder, and it was really through her, and her alone, that she obtained any education. "What makes you always say 'have went'?" Maria would inquire, with a half-kindly, half-supercilious glance at her satellite. "What had I ought to say," Gladys would inquire, meekly "have came?"
She had seen him leaning against the door-post, a half-cynical, half-kindly smile floating through his gold moustache. "Do you think he will like the music you are going to give at the next concert? He is coming, I suppose?" "It is just possible he may arrive in time; but I should hardly think so.
Thus saying, he made a slight commanding sign, the clustering people drew back on either side, and he, taking Theos by the arm, passed through their ranks, talking, laughing, and nodding graciously here and there as he went, with the half-kindly, half- indifferent ease of an affable monarch who occasionally bows to some of his poorest subjects.
You lie low till they put us ashore! After that do you think you can trust me?" He spoke with comically twisted eyebrows and a smile half-kindly and half-quizzical. And the forlorn little creature in his arms turned with a swooping, passionate movement, caught one of his hands and pressed it to quivering lips. "I'll live or die for your sake!" the trembling voice told him. "I'm just yours."
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