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He held out his hand to her with a smile half-mocking, half-persuasive. The music swung on with a subtle enchantment. Dinah uttered a little quivering laugh, and went to him. In another moment the door closed, and they stood alone in the passage. "I knew you wanted to," said Eustace, smiling down into her eyes with the arrogance of the conqueror.
"Ring on, sweet waters," he cried. "Your voice follows me no matter how far I go. I alone can understand your language, and know what you are saying. All are deaf but me. They hear but do not know your meaning." He ceased, and again listened for a few seconds. A strange half-mocking laugh startled him, and caused him to look quickly around.
It was clear to him that she meant to provoke him that her young personality threw itself wantonly across his own. He spoke with a harsh directness. "You did wrong, I think quite wrong. Excuse the word, but you have brought me to close quarters. You sowed the seeds of doubt, of revolt, in a child's mind." "Perhaps," said Laura quickly. "What then?" She wore her half-wild, half-mocking look.
The mixture of audacity with a perfect self-command in the manner of her new acquaintance, that searching half-mocking look, which saw everything in detail, and was always pressing beyond the generalisations of talk and manners, the lightness and brightness of the whole aspect, of the curls, the eyes, the flexible determined mouth, these things arrested her.
She rarely danced now, yet all the seductive arts of perfect dancing seemed hers by right of birth. Each movement, each gesture had a peculiar charm, and her dark blue eyes, the more provocative for their lack of passion, were full of a half-mocking, half-tender vivacity.
"So it was, until a day or two ago," laughed Hamish; "but I have managed to charm the enemy." He spoke in his usual light, careless, half-mocking style, and passed his arm within Arthur's. At that moment a shopkeeper came to his door, and respectfully touched his hat to Hamish. Hamish nodded in return, and laughed again as he walked on with Arthur.
Stahl's eyes had changed even as he spoke the flaming words that struggled so awkwardly to seize his mood of rapture a thought the Earth poured through him for a moment. The bitter, half-mocking smile lay in them, and on the lips the cold and critical expression of the other Stahl, skeptic and science-man. A revulsion of feeling caught them both.
There were so many things our mothers never found out," the Princess rambled on, with her half-mocking half-intimate smile; and in another moment Undine, thrilled at having Mrs. Spragg thus coupled with a Duchess, found herself seated between mother and daughter, and responding by a radiant blush to the elder lady's amiable opening: "You know my nephew Raymond he's your great admirer."
Her eyes were very bright, the result of few but salt tears, the corners of her mouth were lifted by a happy smile, not the tantalising, half-mocking smile he used to see. She was changed, and was, he thought, more lovable prettier; today's emotion had shaken her out of herself.
But I shall satisfy my love first; Ziska will be mine mine in every sense of possession, before I die. Yes, that must be that will have to be. And afterwards, why let Denzil do his worst; a man can but die once." He drew the cloth off his easel and stared at the strange picture of the Princess, which seemed almost sentient in its half- watchful, half-mocking expression.
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