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Yet when he stood before her in an attitude of courteous deference, she was at a loss what she should say to him, or, rather, what words she should employ. At last, with a half-laugh of nervousness, "I am by nature very inquisitive, sir," she prefaced. "I had already judged you to be an exceptional woman," Mr. Caryll commented softly. She mused an instant. "Are you never serious?" she asked him.
Sepia laughed this time her curious half-laugh. "If I did, I wouldn't marry him, Hesper," she said. "Which is worse not to mind, and marry him; or to mind, and marry him all the same? Eh, Cousin Hesper Mortimer?" "I can't make you out, Sepia!" said Hesper. "I believe I never shall." "Very likely. Give it up?" "Quite." "The best thing you could do. I can't always make myself out.
Brother and sister were locked in a loving embrace, and then Lil shrank away. "Scar," she whispered; "why you are all wet." "Yes," he said, with a half-laugh. "I had to swim across part of the lake." "Oh, my boy, my boy, how did you get here?" whispered Lady Markham. "Oh, I found a way, mother dear." "But your father? Oh! There is no bad news?" "No, no; don't tremble so.
Willetts uttered a half-laugh, an uneasy, contemptuous expression of scorn and repudiation. "The charges of such a man as you are can't hurt me," he said. The man did not show fear so much as disgust at the meeting. He seemed to be absorbed in thought, yet no serious consideration of the situation made itself manifest. Shefford felt puzzled. Perhaps there was no fire to strike from this man.
"Oh yes; it is all right," faltered the new-comer, with a half-laugh. "I was just going down to my boat. What a dark night!" "Oh yes, it's dark enough," growled Smithers; "but what's the word?" "The word? Oh yes. Good-night good-night." "Halt, I tell you!" cried the sentry in a deep tone. "That's not the password." "Oh no; but that does not matter, my good friend.
And then, in that abominable scamp with his youth already soiled, withered like a plucked flower ready to be flung on some rotting heap of rubbish, no very genuine feeling about anything could exist not even about the hazards of his own unclean existence. A sneering half-laugh with some such remark as: "We are properly sold and no mistake" would have been enough to make trouble in that way.
"Mr Powell, slipping the Articles into a long envelope, spoke up with a sort of cold half-laugh without looking at either of us. "`Mind you don't disgrace the name, Charles. "And the skipper chimes in very kindly: "`He'll do well enough I dare say. I'll look after him a bit.
The pawnbroker uttered a sound something between a half-laugh and a grunt. He took the weapon from the window. Antony Dart examined it critically. He must make quite sure of it. He made no further remark. He felt he had done with speech. Being told the price asked for the purchase, he drew out his purse and took the money from it.
Gregory lingered still in the chamber where they had dined, and sat staring moodily before him at the table-linen. Anon, with a half-laugh of contempt, he filled a glass of muscadine, and drained it. As he set down the glass the door opened, and on the threshold stood a very dainty girl, whose age could not be more than twenty.
"You've forgotten all that went before that, I 'spose," said Nancy, with a half-laugh. "You beat all! Most folks remember and forget just t'other way exactly. But, besides, I didn't know but I should catch myself in queer company." "Well I am all alone now," said Ellen, with a sigh. "Yes, if you warn't I wouldn't be here, I can tell you. What do you think I have come for to-day, Ellen?"
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