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'Do you want a cab, sir? the man asked, in a half-mocking, challenging voice. Berry hesitated still. 'Are you Daniel Sutton? he asked. 'Yes, replied the other defiantly, with uneasy conscience. 'Then you are my uncle, said Berry.
And while the four clambered up the slope he retained a grip on the Peruvian's arm, aiding him to the top. When they emerged on the level, however, he dropped his hand immediately. José gave him a half-mocking bow of thanks, to which he replied with a short nod. Then he stepped back and let the Peruvian precede him toward a number of substantial pole-supported houses a hundred yards away.
Just then we heard soft footsteps, and looking up we were surprised to see Captain Rudstone standing within a yard of us. There was a peculiar gleam in his eyes, and a half-amused, half-mocking expression lurked on his inscrutable features. His glance swept about the room, then settled keenly on our little group. "Pardon me for interrupting you, Mr. Macdonald," he said in well-modulated tones.
I'd better have kept you on the rein after all." "I should have run away if you had," said Piers. He poured himself out a glass of wine and raised it to his lips. He looked at Sir Beverley above it with a smile half-sad, half-mocking, and eyes that veiled his soul. "I should have gone to the devil if you had, sir," he said, "and probably I shouldn't have come back."
He cast down his eyes; but his glance fell upon the foot which just then she thrust laughingly forward, evidently in answer to some remark from Stanford, who stood at her right hand. Upon the toe of her exquisite little shoe sparkled a great diamond like a fountain of flame. "It gives light to my steps," she laughed. "The service is worthy of it," Stanford returned with a half-mocking bow.
I'll come I'll come fast enough," and the speaker, with a curious half-mocking look at Lathrop, flounced back into the cottage, and shut the door. They waited. There were sounds of lowered voices, and crying children. Then Miss Daunt emerged defiantly, and they all three walked back to Monk Lawrence. The keeper's niece unlocked the door leading to Daunt's rooms. But she stood sulkily in the entry.
And Miss Blake's casual treatment of her, half-bluff, half-mocking, her curt, good-humored commands, her cordial bullying, were a rest to nerves more raveled than Sheila knew from her experience in Millings.
Killigrew laughingly informed Carminow that Ishmael had never met an actress in his life, and in reply to Carminow's half-mocking commiseration, Ishmael answered gaily that he had never even been to the theatre, except to a penny gaff that once visited Penzance. It was indeed with a secret tingling that he now found himself seated in a box.
Anyone could see that, so long as he was there, Lucy was sensitively conscious of him in all that she said or did. She did not long endure his half-mocking silence now. 'You see, Dora, she began again, with an angry glance towards him, 'father's worse than ever just now. He's been so aggravated. 'Yes, said Dora timidly.
His mood was keyed to tragedy. But he returned her half-serious, half-mocking smile with one as enigmatic, shook hands with grave formality, and surveyed with mild interest a modest heap of bank-notes of small denominations that lay on the table, catching the room's high lights. Following his glance, Doris nodded complacently. "I left them there for you to see," she remarked.
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