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She went with him, but on the terrace outside he stopped impulsively. "Avery darling, I don't mean to be a selfish beast; but I've got to prowl for a bit. Would you rather go to bed?" His arm was round her; she leaned against him half-laughing. "Do you know, dear, that bedroom frightens me with its magnificence! Don't prowl too long!" He bent to her swiftly. "Avery! Do you want me?"
Meanwhile, you're like a little dog barking at a bull, and you're precious lucky not to be over the hedge by this time maybe the bull doesn't mind you, maybe he's waiting a day but take his advice and go to kennel awhile." He said this half-laughing, and in no sense fiercely; but his words angered me beyond restraint, and I could have struck him as he sat.
"Well," repeated he, nodding at her, with a look of much kindness, "leave it to me, I say; I'll get you a careful husband, so take no thought about the matter." Cecilia, half-laughing, begged he would not give himself much trouble, and assured him she was not in any haste. "All the better," said he, "good girl; no fear for you: look out myself; warrant I'll find one.
"I am wishing ye to be knocking," he mimicked in a half-fierce, half-laughing voice, "for I am only a wicked gipsy lass"; and again, "My dear, my dear, I'm not seeing much wickedness in a' this, and so I must be creeping out and knockin' on a lass that will not be saying a civil word to me, let alone a kiss in the gloamin'."
"That's just it," exclaimed Marian, half-laughing. "What do I want? I look all about me and I can't see it. Yet I know that there must be something. I think I ought to have been a man. Sometimes I feel like running away away off somewhere. I feel as if I were getting second-bests, paste substitutes for the real jewels. I feel as I did when I was a child and demanded the moon.
That Mrs Major was only talking to me patronisingly, and half-laughing at me. I can see it now. Oh! here's Smithers." Captain Smithers came up, looking rather careworn and sad, and nodded in a friendly way at his junior. "Well, Long," he said, "so we are commanders-in-chief just now. At least, I am. You'll have to be my colonel, major, and adjutant, all in one."
And then there was, of course, the breakfast of which I, for one, ate very little and the speechifying afterwards, and what not; and then the happy couple retired for a time, appearing again in travelling attire; then there was the half-laughing, half-tearful "good-bye," the descent of all hands in a body to the door, where Annesley's handsome travelling-carriage and four stood in readiness; then more good-byes; and finally the departure, in the midst of a perfect storm of cheers and old shoes all in regular order.
"Oh! my Watson is a very gentlemanlike person, I assure you," said Arthur, half-laughing, "and you need not be ashamed of him." Then, rather desirous of turning the conversation, he continued, "So my father will be back from Beaufort Court to-day?" "Yes; he writes in excellent spirits. He says the rents will bear raising at least ten per cent., and that the house will not require much repair."
"Oh, Pobs, dear," she said half-laughing, half-crying. "You're such a darling you always understand everything. I feel heaps better now, thank you." Anglice: foreigner. Diana threw hack the bedclothes and thrust an extremely pretty but reluctant foot over the edge of the bed.
His voice and manner grew very cold. "I don't agree with you, but it is not a subject I care to discuss. Is there any reason why Doris should not be invited to the theatre?" "None whatever, except that I don't propose to ask her." They faced each other a moment almost angrily, except that whereas Dudley was distinctly vexed, Hal was a little scornful, and half-laughing.
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