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He turned as the two elder boys came racing up, and she saw the half-mocking light go out of his eyes as they glanced up the hill. "Hullo!" he said. "There's one of them come to grief." Sharply she turned also. Pat and Gracie were having a spirited race down the lower slope of the hill. Olive had begun to descend from the top with becoming dignity.
There was a pause; then Agatha turned with a half-mocking smile, and looked at him. For the first time in her life she was really frightened. She had never seen passion in a man's face before. It was the one thing she had never encountered in the daily round of social effort in London. Not an evil passion, but the strong passion of love, which is as rare in human beings as is genius.
I was too selfish myself in those days. Some other woman will teach you that now." "I wonder," said Charles Rex, half-mocking and half-touched. She slipped her hand through his arm, turning from the subject with a faint sigh. "Well, come and see the baby! He's very lovely." "From your point of view or Jake's?" questioned Saltash. She laughed. "From mine of course.
"How dreadful! She seemed quite well when we saw her that day " She could still hear echoing in her ears the old lady's half-mocking but kindly compliments. "Ah! but she was very, very old over ninety! Why, she was supposed to be aged when she became my godmother thirty odd years ago!" He waited a moment, and then added, quietly, "She has left me in her will two hundred thousand francs."
Let us go down." It was a shy Lakla who came slowly around the end of the path and, blushing furiously, held her hands out to Larry. And the Irishman took them, placed them over his heart, kissed them with a tenderness that had been lacking in the half-mocking, half-fierce caresses he had given the priestess. She blushed deeper, holding out the tapering fingers then pressed them to her own heart.
Your man meant well," continued the visitor, with his whole manner changed, and he spoke in a half-mocking, cynical way which puzzled and annoyed the boy. "A poor, weak, foolish fellow, though, who hardly understands what he meant. Don't you think he was very weak, bull-headed and absurd?"
His glance travelled upward from a pair of absurdly tiny brocaded shoes past slender white ankles to the embroidered edge of a wonderful mandarin robe decorated with the figures of peacocks; upward again to a little bejewelled hand which held the robe confined about the slender figure of Zahara, and upward to where, sideways upon a bare shoulder peeping impudently out from Chinese embroidery, rested the half-mocking and half-serious face of the girl.
"To be the subject of any Gaines epigram, however stinging, is fame in itself," said Banneker. "And no sting in this one. 'Attic salt and American pep," she quoted. "Isn't it truly spicy?" Banneker bowed with half-mocking appreciation. "I fancy, though, that Mr. Gaines prefers his journalistic egg more au naturel."
A child admitted her into the bleak passage that served for hall. The strange medley of emotions passing through Bianca's breast while she stood outside the girl's door did not show in her face, which wore its customary restrained, half-mocking look. The little model's voice faintly said: "Come in." The room was in disorder, as though soon to be deserted.
She crossed her arms, she smiled, and, in a firm, half-mocking tone, said: "So this is the way you rob me of my poor people! They flourish under it, I am well aware. Confess now that there is a little hypocrisy in your virtue. Mlle. Galet never for a moment doubted that these famous camellias were given for my sake. Bouquets costing sixty francs! absolute folly! How you despise money!
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