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What as she arrived just in time to receive a half-malicious, half-ceremonious bow from John, as he drove off what that excellent woman did say I have not the slightest recollection.
He frowned slightly and gave the case back to his brother. "Have a cigarette!" said Scott. He took one absently, and Scott did the same. "How did you get on with the lady in red?" he asked. Eustace threw him a glance half-humorous, half-malicious. "If it comes to that, how did you get on with the little brown girl?" "Oh, very nicely," smiled Scott. "Her name is Dinah.
He had made up his mind to form his opinion upon his own experience with the man, and so far it had not only been pleasant but favorable, and far from justifying the half-jeering, half-malicious talk that had come to his ears.
In fact, he noticed with a certain displeasure which vanished speedily with a musical, and half-malicious little laugh from Zaidie, that when he spoke the Bird-Folk drew back a little and looked in something like astonishment at him; but Zaidie was already in touch with them, and half by song and half by signs she very soon gave them an idea of what they were and where they had come from.
'Seven, Paul answered brightly. But a new confusion fell upon him. Not a muscle of Ralston's swarthy clear-cut face or the full-bearded lips moved, but there was a dancing little demon of not more than half-malicious humour in his eyes. 'Seven, Paul repeated. 'You'll excuse me now? You won't think my haste unfriendly?
Apparently they had not heard Julian's knock, for they started apart, when the door was opened, like conspirators. There was something half-fearful, half-malicious in Fenn's face, as he stared at them. "What are you doing here?" he demanded. "What's wrong?" Julian closed the door. "A great deal," he replied curtly.
He may or may not take thereby ten dollars out of your pocket: that's a negative injury. In this case there was no injury, for you had already cost Lacasse how much had you cost him, Dauphin?" continued the Seigneur, with a half-malicious smile. "I've been out of Chaudiere for near a year; I don't know the record how much, eh, Dauphin?" The Notary was too offended to answer.
They are peculiar to no class, these women: you may find them in a print gown or in diamonds. Often they have thin, rather long lips and deep rounded chins; but it is the fine upward curve of the nostrils and the fall of the eyelids which most surely mark them. Their glances and their faint smiles are beneficent, yet with a subtle shade of half-malicious superiority.
"Oh, he laughed, and in that singular manner so peculiar to himself half-malicious, half-ferocious; he almost immediately got up and took his leave; then, for the first time, I observed the agitation of my grandfather, and I must tell you, Maximilian, that I am the only person capable of discerning emotion in his paralyzed frame.
Perplexity and disappointment were plainly written on his face. She, with a merry and half-malicious laugh, turned to the piano, and sung: From Mount Olympus' snowy height The gods look down on human life: Beneath contending armies fight; All undisturbed they watch the strife. Dennis looked at her earnestly, and after a moment said, "Will you please play that accompaniment again?"
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