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The wounded man's frame shook under a spasm of shuddering, and he glowered at us both wildly, with a look half-wrath, half-pitiful pleading, which helped me the better to make up my mind. Enoch had turned to me once more: "Come," he said, "we better hustle along. It will be all right with me so long as I am with you, and there is no time to lose. They must be starting from the gulf by this time.
Shakespeare could not in a narrative poem have preferred the varying passions of one character to the characters of many persons. Tennyson was "nettled at first," his son says, "by these captious remarks of the 'indolent reviewers, but afterwards he would take no notice of them except to speak of them in a half-pitiful, half- humorous, half-mournful manner."
"Ve vill hont an' shot togezzer, mine frond," he said, on making this discovery, "ant I vill show you v'ere de best booterflies are to be fount Oh! sooch a von as I saw to but, excuse me, Van der Kemp. Vy you come here joost now?" "To save you" said the hermit, with a scintillation of his half-pitiful smile.
"And, for myself, I am not at all anxious to marry," said Ulrica, throwing her head back proudly, and casting a half-contemptuous, half-pitiful look at Amelia. "I have no wish to marry. Truly, I have not seen many happy examples of wedded life in our family. All my sisters are unhappy, and I see no reason why I should tread the same thorny path." The king smiled.
The Rector's face, so brown and red, could not grow pale, but his great fists relaxed. Mrs. Pendyce was standing in the doorway with a peculiar half-pitiful, half-excited smile. "It's all right a boy. The poor dear has had a dreadful time!" The Rector looked at her, but did not speak; then abruptly he brushed past her in the doorway, hurried into his study and locked the door.
He looked at Miss Millet with a half-pitiful smile, for there was something woefully true in his words, and his good little nurse found it necessary to go in search of the household keys for a minute or so before answering. "Well, Jeff, perhaps you are right and the day is splendid sunny, calm, and warm so you won't be likely to catch cold. Only don't go far, for you might become tired out.
Did you notice the handwriting?" "Why, I was such a little fellow," and he looked up in wonder and slight concern, "how could I remember? Some letter that somebody had dropped, perhaps, in taking the rest out of the box. It could not matter certainly not now. You would not bring my youthful misdeeds up against me, would you?" And he turned up a half-comical, half-pitiful face.
Then, in a half-reproachful, half-pitiful tone, as if on the verge of tears, he added: "Was I so bad a chief that even you thought me a hindrance to the advancement of the society and the cause to which we are pledged?" It was the one thing he could say capable of rousing her. "Oh!" she cried, "it is all a mistake, all a cheat.
"Darling mother, you haven't any too many of them, have you?" she murmured; and she gave me, sidelong, as she left us, the prettiest half-comical, half-pitiful smile. "She's amazing she's amazing," said Mrs. Pallant as we looked at each other. "Does she know what you've done?" "She knows I've done something and she's making up her mind what it is.
Some had been at Chamouni before, and wore the self-possessed air of knowledge; others had obviously never been there before, and were excited. Many were full of interest and expectation, a few, chiefly very young men, wore a blase, half-pitiful, half-patronising air, as though to say, "that's right, good people, amuse yourselves with your day-dreams while you may.
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