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They were apparently in the thick of an argument, and Lady Maxwell, whose hands were lightly clasped on the table in front of her, was leaning forward with the look of one who had just shot her bolt, and was waiting to see how it would strike. It struck apparently in the direction of her vis-a-vis, Sir Frank Leven, for he bent over to her, making a quick reply in a half-petulant boy's voice.
Late in the afternoon, when the young painter regained his own studio, he threw himself upon his battered sofa with a sigh of relief that was half-petulant. He had had an afternoon doubly successful; for he had taken a long-contemplated plunge. In his pocket was another whole year of frugality; or a month, one little month, of extravagance. His question now was, which should it be?
She turned with a half-weary, half-petulant distaste from her former pursuits and pleasures, and abandoned her profession with a sort of terror, feeling that its mockery of sorrows, such as had fallen so crushingly on her unchastened heart, would madden her utterly.
The delicate, half-petulant features, the finely traced brows, and the thoughtful, humorous eyes were all perfect in their way, and yet the combination left something to be desired.
He uttered little crooning noises, alternating with sharp cries akin to pain, half-ecstatic, half-petulant, as he drew a black clay pipe from a hole in his ear-lobe, and into the bowl of it, with trembling fingers, untwisted and crumbled the cheap leaf of spoiled Virginia crop.
'And suppose I go to Robin Redbreast too, said Frances, 'what am I to do? 'I thought you said Jacinth was the one who would go, said Bessie. 'Oh well, replied Frances, who had raised the difficulty partly out of half-petulant contradiction, 'I am pretty sure it will be Jass. I don't think Lady Myrtle noticed me much, and I don't want to go.
"But, my dears," said the parson, simply, "I want to talk alone with your mother. However, if you like best to go and keep quiet in your own room, you may do so." "Or we can go into Susan's?" "No," said the parson; "you must not disturb Susan." "She never used to care about being disturbed. I wonder what's come to her?" The parson made no rejoinder to this half-petulant question.
Then what mad, half-sullen, half-petulant, and wholly reckless impulse sprang into his brain! "Well, will you wear that as an engagement-ring, if I give it to you?" he asked. She looked up, startled, amused, but not displeased. "Why, really really that is a question to ask!" she exclaimed.
She is but eighteen even now, and it is not always easy to tell whether she will be an angel of noble goodness, or, pardon me, a half-petulant child.
He had passed long hours of delightful research in the old library, and many afternoons of meditation in the picture gallery, where the portrait of the lady in the 'vi'let velvet, Mary Elia Adelgisa de Vaignecourt, had often caught his eye and charmed his fancy when the setting sun had illumined its rich colouring and had given life to the face, half-petulant, half-sweet, which pouted forth from the old canvas like a rose with light on its petals.
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