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She seemed bubbling over with good spirits, and there was a half-mischievous, half-guilty twinkle in her keen old eyes which suggested that there might be some ulterior cause for her effervescence. "If you were poor I should say you'd just come into a fortune," commented Magda, regarding her judicially. "As you're not, I should like to know why you're looking as pleased as a child with a new toy.
At this point, Marcolina, who had been listening attentively and with apparent seriousness, suddenly assumed a half-commiserating, half-mischievous expression, and said: "You are trying, Signor Casanova" she seemed deliberately to avoid addressing him as Chevalier "to give me an elaborate proof of your renowned talent as entertainer, and I am extremely grateful to you.
Richardson for?" asked the young girl, with a half-reproachful, half-mischievous look in her bright eyes. "I packed him off because I thought it was a little too hard on you and Mrs. Bradley to entertain him without help." "But as he was OUR guest, you might have left that to us," said Miss Macy. "By Jove! I never thought of that," said Mainwaring, coloring in consternation.
She took his hands in both of hers, raised them to her lips, and smiled. The shadow of grief and restraint seemed to have fallen from her face, and a half-mischievous, half-coquettish gleam in her dark eyes touched the susceptible Cass in so subtle a fashion that he regained the street in some confusion. He wondered what Miss Porter would have thought.
"They wouldn't do nawthin'," he declared consolingly. "They're both powerful mawdrate hosses. Besides," the speaker stole a half-mischievous, half-shy look at her companion, "Thinkright'll tell ye it's one o' the seven deadly sins to be skeered of anythin' that's in heaven above, or the earth beneath, or the sea that in them is." The curving road was leading up a hill.
But she whipped her own behind her, glanced rapidly up and down the long hall, and stood looking at him with a half-audacious, half-mischievous admiration, in utter contrast to her old reserve. "I've a great mind not to shake hands with you at all. You passed me just now on the piazza without speaking; and I ran after you, as I suppose many another poor woman has done." Mr.
I saw the half-mischievous smile vanish from the corners of his eyes and mouth; my lips were trembling with a suppressed sorrow. He saw it, and bending over me asked in a tender, solicitous voice: "What is the matter, little Amey? Are you ill? Come, tell me" he urged, with a gentle firmness turning me around and taking both my hands in his own large ones. "No, no, Mr.
Toby threw her a little smile, half-grateful and half-mischievous; and curiously in that moment a bond was formed between them which was destined to endure. There was undoubtedly a frown on Jake's usually serene countenance when he walked up the great stable-yard a little later that evening and came upon Bunny lounging in a doorway with his hands in his pockets talking to one of the men.
There was nothing repulsive in the half-ironical, half-mischievous merriment of these patrician revellers; their witticisms were brilliant and pointed, but never indelicate; and if their darker passions were roused, and ready to run riot, they showed as yet no sign of it.
You see" she took us all into her confidence with a sweeping smile of innocent yet half-mischievous artfulness "I only know because I peeped over a letter he once got from his firm, telling him he must hustle up and be ready for the road the next day but I think the name was Martinez yes, Ramon Martinez."
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