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Updated: September 24, 2025
"Here we are," and they turned up a driveway at the side of the long porch upheld with round columns. Betty sprang out on the stepping block and half-lifted Doris, while Warren drove up to the barn. Uncle Winthrop came out to welcome them, and smiled down into the little girl's face. "But where is your mother?" he asked. "Oh, she had some shopping to do and then she was to meet father.
He moved softly toward the yellow quadrangle where the gas from the hall shone up through the half-lifted trapdoor. Oh yes! It came up through the hole like a strong draught, a big, beautiful voice, and it sounded rather like a professional's. A piano had arrived in the morning, Hedger remembered. This might be a very great nuisance.
A crowd was already following, and it gathered so quickly at the high iron fence that the most censorious witness could hardly see with what clumsiness the wounded man was half-dragged, half-lifted from the cab by the hospital assistants, and stretched upon the ground till he could be duly carried into the hospital.
Undaunted, she looked at him with eyes that froze his trigger-finger, whilst behind her Rizzio grovelled in his terror, clutching her petticoat. Thus, until suddenly she was seized about the waist and half dragged, half-lifted aside by Darnley, who at the same time spurned Rizzio forward with his foot. The murderers swooped down upon their prey.
"So he's not like the young man here that distinguished himself last night?" said the little woman archly. The fork in John's hand, half-lifted to his lips, faltered and fell back toward his plate. "Why, what's that?" said John in a strange voice; "I hadn't heard anything about it I mean I haven't heard anything about any young man. What was it?"
Heave ho! all together." They raised the inert body, and half-lifted, half-slid it forward upon the narrow balcony. "Here, Slugby, you prop him behind; and you, Ele and Condor, one on each side. There! that's it! Now we have him. I'll speak to the people." So saying, the General removed his hat and bowed very low to the crowd in the street.
With a breath of violets, and the delicate rustling of half-lifted skirts, she had come softly into the room, and stood looking at him inquiringly. Her manner seemed to indicate more a good-natured curiosity than real anxiety. She made a little grimace as he shook his head. "I have failed," he said shortly. "That young man is a prig!" "I was afraid," she said, "that he would be obstinate.
"It's so nice of you to promise!" She questioned him from under her half-lifted eyelids, and he added, with a laugh, "I'll come!" and was rewarded with two pretty smiles, just alike, from mother and daughter, as they drove away. Twenty years earlier, when Mrs. Bowen was Miss Lina Ridgely, she used to be the friend and confidante of the girl who jilted Colville.
Adeline chose her dress carefully, but the pious and blameless woman is decent to the end, in spite of her little coquettish graces. Of what use were brand-new gray silk stockings and high heeled satin shoes when she was absolutely ignorant of the art of displaying a pretty foot at a critical moment, by obtruding it an inch or two beyond a half-lifted skirt, opening horizons to desire?
"They might set up house on their belief in Hetty, and even take her to lodge with them." John Whitelamb sprang up as if stung; stood for a moment, still with his face averted upon the fire; then, while all stared at him, let drop the arm he had half-lifted towards the mantel-shelf and relapsed into his chair. He had not uttered a sound. Mrs.
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