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"It quite turned my brain at first; and my eyes were so dazzled by the pitiful glistening of the pageant, the sham splendor of the sham court, and the half-mocking, half-serious homage paid me, that I could see nothing beyond the shining surface, and the blackness, and corruption, and horror within, were altogether lost upon me.
"How do you feel now?" asked Mimer in a half-mocking tone. "Rather strangely, as if cold iron had touched me," faintly answered the giant. "Shake thyself!" cried Mimer. Amilias did so, and, lo! he fell in two halves; for the sword had cut sheer through the vaunted war coat, and cleft in twain the great body incased within.
And I know quite well that he does not wish us to marry, unless She faltered and stopped. 'Unless what? said Mrs. Gibson, half-mocking. 'Unless we love some one very dearly indeed, said Molly, in a low, firm tone. 'Well, after this tirade really rather indelicate, I must say I have done. I will neither help nor hinder any love-affairs of you two young ladies.
Now and then she would throw a half-mocking glance at him upward over her shoulder, as she swept over the resounding board. When the sonata was concluded, Phoebe sprang up from the piano, and went back to the table. She proposed that they should play a game at cards, to which Ursula agreed.
So when death overtakes him he trusts himself to God as he would to his best friend." "Tha'rt talkin' riddles, Rector!" "No. Ask yourself. When you fell into sin with that woman, did nothing speak to you, nothing try to stop you?" The bright half-mocking eyes below Meynell's wandered a little wavered in expression. "It was the hot blood in me aye, an' in her too. Yo cawn't help them things."
It was to be "full of little turrets and the finest of fancy porches and a regular sight of bulging windows." One day that Martin Cosgrave heard a neighbour speaking about the "bulging windows" he laughed a half-bitter, half-mocking laugh. "Tell them," he said, "that they are cut-stone tracery windows to fit in with the carved doors."
"Vladimir Nikolaevich has a good heart," said Liza. "He is clever. Mamma likes him very much." "But you do you like him?" "He is a good man. Why shouldn't I like him?" "Ah!" said Lavretsky, and became silent. A half-sad, half-mocking expression played upon his face. The fixed look with which he regarded her troubled Liza; but she went on smiling.
It treated Montgomery with a strange tenderness and devotion. Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight; sometimes he would ill-treat it, especially after he had been at the whiskey, kicking it, beating it, pelting it with stones or lighted fusees.
He set aside in favor of the pair the order which he himself had given. Then, taking no heed of the murmurings of the fashionable crowd seated under the arcade, he gently drew the enraptured child towards him. "I am no longer surprised at her vexation and enthusiasm, if you are in waiting," the old man said with a half-mocking, half-serious glance at the officer.
Her eyes still dwelt upon the dark face with its half-mocking smile with a species of maternal tenderness. "And you lost your yacht too! That was desperately unlucky." He made a comic grimace. "I am past the age for crying over spilt milk, Maud of the Roses." He uttered his old name for her with daring assurance. "I have had worse losses than that in my time." "And still you smile," she said.
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