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These people of yours McMurtrie and Savaroff are weird enough customers on their own, but when it comes to their being mixed up with both George and Marks ..." he paused. "It will turn out next that Latimer's in it too," he added half-mockingly. "I shouldn't wonder," I said. "I can't swallow everything he told you, Tommy. It leaves too much unexplained.
She gasped for breath, drawing back slightly from the nearness of his lips. "Do you mean you'd like to marry me?" she whispered tremulously, and hid her face on the instant; for the bald words sounded preposterous. He laughed again, softly, half-mockingly, and drew her into his arms. "Whatever made you think of that, my elf of the mountains? I'll vow it came into your head first.
Perhaps there isn't any such thing as affection in itself...." She spoke half-mockingly, asking her question, which she scarcely troubled to frame, not of Mary, or of any one in particular. But the words seemed to Mary Datchet shallow, supercilious, cold-blooded, and cynical all in one. All her natural instincts were roused in revolt against them.
Was his apparent friendliness merely a blind, or did it hide some still deeper purpose, of which at present I knew nothing? He must have guessed my thoughts, for leaning back in his chair he remarked half-mockingly: "Come, Mr. Lyndon, it doesn't pay to be too suspicious.
His hat had slipped to the back of his head, the light of the great yellow moon fell full upon his clean-cut, sphinx-like face. The eyes alone seemed living. "Yes! I can do that." He was only amused, and the words were spoken half-mockingly; but his face said more than his lips. It said that even in chaff this was no vain boast that he was uttering.
I can't remember that I have wished for anything else for six years. She looked at him perplexed. Was his manner merely languid, or was it from him that the emotion she felt invading herself first started? She tried to shake it off. 'And I am just a bundle of wants, she said, half-mockingly.
And down sank Miss Mae on her knees, with her lips curved, and her hands stretched out imploringly, half-mockingly. No need of words to say: "Save my brother, behold him. Ah, you cannot do it, your power is boast. Yet, save him, pray." "A little more yellow in my hair, some pearls and a pink gown, and you might have the sister to study in a living model, Edith," laughed Mae, arising.
When he came up with an explanation about a missing package, she laughed half-mockingly, and on the whole felt glad that the narrowness of the trail, which compelled him to follow, made conversation difficult. An hour after she left the settlement the moon was hidden and fine snow began to fall. It grew thicker, gradually covering the trail, until Muriel had some difficulty in distinguishing it.
The young fellow on top of the load looked down. His blue eyes sparkled merrily as he saw her. "Are you coming?" he called. She glanced up. "If you like," she answered. "If I like!" he echoed, half-mockingly, half-tenderly; "You know I like! Why, you've got that wretched bird with you!" "He's not a wretched bird," she said, "He's a darling!" "Well, you can't climb up here hugging him like that!
"What are you going to do?" he said shortly. "Only look out two or three things that there's not room for in the drawer." "What for?" "Why, to dress for the procession." "Stuff and nonsense! You are quite right as you are," cried Glyn half-mockingly. "You must learn to remember that you are in England, where nobody dresses up except soldiers. Why, what were you going to do?"
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