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"Thank you, Marquis," answered the girl, with a half-mocking courtesy. "Another time let me advise you, before you shoot, to look that no one is behind a hedge." With these words she tripped away, without her tiny feet showing any signs of lameness. She had read Norbert's heart like the pages of a book, and felt that there was every chance of her winning the game.
He had been carrying his hat in his hand and he leaned on his stick wondering whether she were really in earnest, whether he had displeased her by the half-mocking tone in which he had spoken. "Please don't talk this old, romantic, mediæval nonsense about women!
"He's got to begin school next week," she said to Westover; and at the preparations the other now began to make with a piece of paper and a planchette which he had on the table before him, she asked, in the half-mocking, half-deprecating way which seemed characteristic of her: "You believe any in that?" "I don't know that I've ever seen it work," said the painter.
They entered the dining-room still linked together, and a woman's face smiled down upon them from a picture-frame on the wall with a smile half-sad, half-mocking such a smile as even at that moment curved Piers' lips, belying the reckless gaiety of his eyes. They dined in complete amicability. Piers had plenty to say at all times, and he showed himself completely at his ease.
She, too, knew too well Julien's way of speaking not to know that that mannerism, half-mocking, half-sentimental, always served him to prepare phrases more grave, and against the emotion of which her fear of appearing a dupe rose in advance. She crossed her arms upon her breast, and after a pause she continued, in a grave voice: "You are going away?"
They lunched in the old oak-beamed dining-room a meal presided over by Max, who played the host with a half-mocking air, while Chris, still eager upon the renovations, poured out plans, practicable and otherwise, for her fiancé's consideration. "What a pity we have to get back!" she said regretfully when the time for departure drew near. "I want to begin right away, Trevor.
"Tell no one that they are trifles: but listen," he said. "It will take strength, and patience, and wisdom and cunning and grace to rule this people. Shall we ask all this of any woman?" He dwelt upon the words with weighty enunciation. "Or of any man?" she answered, half-mocking at the demand. "And if he were really a man, and not a god and if one might choose one's King "
"I feel like a new boy, with all sorts of dreadful rules in the background." "That will all be explained to you," said Amroth. "And now good-bye for the present. Let me hear a good report of you," he added, with a parental air, "when I come again. What would not we older fellows give to be back here!" he added with a half-mocking smile.
She had become so habituated to his presence that she was quite at her ease, and treated him as a comrade. Nevertheless, he always felt that there was between them something unexpressed which grieved him to the heart, he knew not why. Occasionally she looked up, regarding him with an amused, half-mocking air, and with an inquiring, impatient expression in her face.
This was one of the details which first indicated to an astounded Edward Coe that a woman is never less like a man than when travelling. "Come here," he commanded her. She obeyed. "Look at that," he commanded her, pointing to the scene of which the window was the frame. She obeyed. She also looked at him with her dark, passionate, and yet half-mocking eyes.
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