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But this soft, half-pained expression, which had taken the place of the haughty, cold one, this sorrowful glance, gave the young widow the one charm which had been lacking gentleness. The conversation had been about trifling every-day matters, inquiries and answers concerning the court and the harmless gossip of the day.
The leader of the orchestra seemed to draw his fingers recklessly across the strings of his instrument and to produce a discord which was almost appalling. A half-pained, half-amused exclamation rippled down the room. For a moment the music ceased. The conductor, who was responsible for the disturbance, was sitting motionless, his hand hanging down by his side.
He caught it with an astonished yet pleased look and stooping, kissed it before I could prevent him, and this time literally scrambled out of my presence with an entire oblivion of his usual dignity. Left alone, I considered this behavior of his with half-pained surprise. This poor fellow loved me it was evident why, I knew not.
"But will it be RIGHT, Bertram?" she murmured. The man looked down into her big eyes in dazed astonishment. "Why, Frida," he cried, half-pained at the question, "do you think if it were WRONG I'd advise you to do it? I'm here to help you, to guide you, to lead you on by degrees to higher and truer life.
"Yet you have spoken." He sighed and raised his hand. "The man the men down there would destroy our country. They are our enemies, and we do well to slay. But remember, Pierre 'What God hath joined let no man put asunder! To fight him as an enemy of your country well; to fight him that you may put asunder is not well." A look, half-pained, half-amused, crossed Iberville's face.
"Yet you have spoken." He sighed and raised his hand. "The man the men down there would destroy our country. They are our enemies, and we do well to slay. But remember, Pierre 'What God hath joined let no man put asunder! To fight him as an enemy of your country well; to fight him that you may put asunder is not well." A look, half-pained, half-amused, crossed Iberville's face.
"Oh, sir, my father has never had a pretty home like this in all his life," said she to the Elder, who stood in the doorway of the sitting-room looking with half-pained wonder at the transformation.
And before three days the money was all gone!" "How was that?" said George, half-amused, half-pained, "stolen perhaps?" "Not so," answered Waife, somewhat gloomily, "but restored. A poor dear old man, who thought very ill of me, and I don't wonder at it, was reduced from great wealth to great poverty.
Frau Regine called again, looking uncertainly at her brother, who still held her arm fast. "We do not know him," he repeated in the same tone. "Must I repeat it to you again, Regine?" She understood his meaning now, and turned with a half-threatening, half-pained glance from the son of her old-time friend, as she said bitterly: "You are right. I was mistaken."
Clarence turn from the strange Christian women who eyed her coldly, and lean over the parapet; he saw the influence of the scene upon her mind in the sweet and tranquil expression which gradually replaced the half-pained, half-puzzled look her face had been wearing.
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