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Updated: May 29, 2025
Charley, I do thank you dear, best cousin that ever was with all my heart!" She held out both hands, her heart full, and brimming over in her black eyes. For once in his life Charley Stuart forgot to be flippant and cynical. He held the hands gently, and he looked half-laughingly, half-compassionately into the flushed, earnest face.
Dion reddened. "Why don't you like to tell me?" "Oh, well things go through the mind without our wishing them to. You must know that, Rosamund. They are often like absurd little intruders. One kicks them out if one can." "What kind of intruder did you kick out, or try to kick out, at Burstal?" She spoke half-laughingly, but half-challengingly. He drew a little nearer to her.
"Away with your blarney!" exclaimed Myra, half-laughingly, half-impatiently, but conscious of a queer little thrill as she met his smiling glance. "Do you pay every woman you meet such fulsome and extravagant compliments, señor?" "No, señorita, I am a connoisseur," answered Don Carlos, his tone quite serious but his black eyes twinkling.
Her mind, working desperately for an escape from the unbearable situation, seized upon a possible explanation. "My darling," she said, "you must try at once to convince him that you were only joking you can say half-laughingly " "But wait!" Alexandra interrupted, unruffled.
But was it my victory or this woman's I so detested? "Don't let this man bully you," she advised half-laughingly. "He's perfectly capable of it. I know him. By all means accept the offer if you think it's worth while. All these husbands are a bit archaic yet, you know. They don't realize that women have joined the human race." "Come, Dicky-bird," she rattled on as she saw his darkening face.
When the man could make no reply, but only looked at her with a much-puzzled and still-proud expression, she continued, half-laughingly, but well pleased with him: "Please, Brian, don't look so haughtily injured. I had no intention of insulting you by offering charity. Far from it." Instantly, the man's face changed.
A little difficulty arose as to a berth; but this was soon solved by the second mate giving up his in favour of a mattress upon the cabin floor, and the brothers were left alone with the captain, who preserved an ominous silence, till Brace spoke half-laughingly: "You don't like the new arrangement, captain?" There was a grunt.
But perhaps yes, I should be glad of an opportunity of the honour of making Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye's acquaintance. But no impersonations, I beg, madame!" He said it half-laughingly, taking his cue from her. "You need have no fear of any." She walked to the door, opened it, and called "Gaston!" In answer came the page whom Garnache had found in the room when he was admitted.
"I'm so afraid, that I'm sick with apprehension sometimes." "Poor Stafford!" she said softly, and there was a look in her eyes which compensated him for much. "But you mustn't worry, dear. Truly, truly, you mustn't worry. I'm quite capable of looking after myself." "And that's the greatest of all your illusions," he said, half-laughingly and half-irritably.
Justine had raised her eyes half-laughingly to Amherst, but they dropped before the unexpected seriousness of his. "Why do you want to know?" he asked. She made an effort to sustain the note of pleasantry. "Well it might, for instance, determine my future conduct. You see I'm still a nurse, and such problems are always likely to present themselves." "Ah, then don't!" "Don't?"
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