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Several times already he had staked Madame Rabourdin very much as Corporal Trim staked his cap. "Don't say that too often, my dear friend, or you will injure her," said the minister's wife, half-laughing. Women never like to hear the praise of other women; they keep silence themselves to lessen its effect.
He had small, bright, brown eyes, with little lines about them that seemed to suggest humor, but actually indicated that he buoyed up his life not by exaltation of himself, but by half-laughing depreciation of every one else. "I thought you'd be glad to know, Mrs. Farron," he said, "that any danger that may have existed is now over. Your husband " "That may have existed," cried Adelaide.
Standish swung into the Mendelssohn Wedding March, and through a haze of rose-leaf confetti and paper streamers, the two Devereuxs were forced down to the orchestra-pit. The house was on its feet to them, and Anna, half-laughing, half-crying with happiness, was sorting confetti out of her hair when Standish clambered up on the stage, and waved for silence.
"Don't mention your age to me again. I don't care if you're as old as Methuselah. But I'm not going to coax you to marry me, sir! If you won't, I'll never marry anybody I'll live and die an old maid. You can please yourself, of course!" She turned away, half-laughing, half-crying; but I caught her in my arms and crushed her sweet lips against mine.
After a while, Jason answered half-laughing, "Were I you, I would send him to fetch that same Golden Fleece, for if he once set forth after it, you would never be troubled with him more." At that a little smile came across the lips of Pelias, and a flash of wicked joy into his eyes.
He placed himself by her. Elizabeth, with a triumphant sensation, looked towards his friend. He bore it with noble indifference, and she would have imagined that Bingley had received his sanction to be happy, had she not seen his eyes likewise turned towards Mr. Darcy, with an expression of half-laughing alarm.
I say nothing of the tapestries or the inimitable ceiling, nor yet of the view which I commanded from the windows; but I felt I was in some one's debt for all this liberal entertainment. And so it pleased me, in a half-laughing way, to leave pieces of money on the turf as I went along, until I had left enough for my night's lodging. I trust they did not fall to some rich and churlish drover.
He caught off his hat and waved it in the air. "Come on home with me! I dare you to jump it!" The Inverness was at a perilous distance from the bridge, but the young man did not hesitate a moment before the half-laughing challenge. He leaped lightly upon the railing, poised a moment and, with a mighty spring, landed upon the bridge. The onlookers gave a gasp and then a relieved and admiring cheer.
"I'm sorry I must go," he said, a little abruptly, for her lovely, half-laughing, half-reproachful face, turned to his, contained such mocking promise of happiness that he could not look upon it. What was his urgent business? His rapid steps as he walked mile after mile indicated that the matter was pressing indeed; but, although it was late before he returned, he had spoken to no one.
Then came a soft, apologetic voice. "Rebecca!" The spinster made no reply but applied herself to a mathematically accurate adjustment of the top edge of the upper sheet. "Rebecca!" The second call was a little louder than the first, and there was a queer half-sobbing, half-laughing catch in the speaker's voice that commanded attention. Rebecca looked up.
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