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But it does not surprise me at all that one who is a minister of James Stuart's should conceive that every man is to be seduced by bribes into betraying those who trust him." He flung out an arm in the direction of the waist, whence came the half-melancholy chant of the lounging buccaneers. "Again you misapprehend me," cried Lord Julian, between concern and indignation. "That is not intended.
"Why," cried Phoebe, gazing into the artist's face with infinite amazement, "how wonderfully your ideas are changed! A house of stone, indeed! It is but two or three weeks ago that you seemed to wish people to live in something as fragile and temporary as a bird's-nest!" "Ah, Phoebe, I told you how it would be!" said the artist, with a half-melancholy laugh. "You find me a conservative already!
'I'm plazed to hear it, says he; 'come in and I'll give you a good glass of rum for it. And Dan took the rum for taking the pledge, and there he was as drunk as Mackilley in the castle this morning." Philip listened as he rode, and a half-melancholy, half-mocking expression played on his face.
"Oh! of course; nothing I should like better, and I should be so invaluable in mending the sugar-canes, and keeping the new agent on his P's and Q's, should not I?" He laughs. "Stay!" say I, again whispering, as being more persuasive; "where would be the use of going now? "Beginning!" he echoes, with a half-melancholy smile, "only beginning? have not we always got on nicely?"
She would have liked to say, 'Oh, confound my youth! but she did not give way to any such unseemly impulse. She felt very happy again, her high spirits all rallying round her. 'Let your youth alone! the Dictator said, with a half-melancholy smile. 'So long as time lets it alone and even time will do that for some years yet.
Her large blue eyes had an innocent, dreamy, half-melancholy expression, which I was not the only person who found unspeakably charming. Afterwards it seemed to me, in recalling her look, that she beheld the fair boy Death, whose lowered torch she was so soon to follow.
Wilhelm took his hand, and looked into his face with a half-melancholy expression. "Are you sentimental?" inquired Otto. "I only affect that which I am not!" answered Wilhelm; and with that, suddenly throwing off the natural gravity of the moment, returned to his customary gayety. The following days were spent in visiting and in receiving visitors.
There they talked about many things having to do with themselves and others until Margery, hailing them from the door, told them that dinner was waiting. After dinner the men foregathered in the shade of an acacia and smoked, saying little, but each thinking of the future. Sundown in his peculiarly optimistic and half-melancholy way, and Corliss with mingled feelings of hope and regret.
He dropped his voice to the meditative key, unconsciously enjoying its soft, half-melancholy cadences, and as he spoke the boy felt some chord in his own personality vibrate to the mind that had asked for no introduction, demanded no credentials, that had decreed their friendship and materialized it. "No," the Irishman mused on, "there's no explaining it.
He jumped back and gained the path. There again he stood still. The sweet and half-melancholy vagueness had quite left him now. The sight of his friend had swept it away. Why was she going to Mergellina at that hour? And why did she look like that? And he thought of the expression he had seen on her face as the tram slipped by, an expression surely of excitement; but also a furtive expression.
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