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It was wonderful to think she should really see him soon, and ask him all sorts of questions about her mother. He lived at Dornton, but that was only two miles from Waverley, and, no doubt, she should often be able to go there. He was an organist. Her father's tone, half-pitying, half-disapproving, came back to her with the word. She tried to think of what she knew about organists.
"You seem to know me, Fräulein." "Oh! I am only the Princess's lady's-maid." ... "But you could do me a great favor." "How?" she asked quickly: "You might give the Princess a letter." ... "I should not venture to do that," the girl replied with a peculiar, half-mocking, half-pitying smile, and with a deep curtsey, she disappeared behind the raspberry bushes which formed a hedge along the railings.
She had found out early that Aunt Clotilde and the curé and the life they had led, had only aroused in his mind a half-pitying amusement. It seemed to her that he did not understand and had strange sacrilegious thoughts about them he did not believe in miracles he smiled when she spoke of saints.
I looked again at the third victim, and saw a man roughly dressed, with bushy black hair and tangled beard; a very giant of a man, whose physical strength must have been enormous and yet it had availed him nothing against that tiny pin-prick on the hand! And then a sudden thought brought me bolt upright. "But Armand!" I cried. "Where is Armand?" Godfrey looked at me with a half-pitying smile.
"I'm afraid that it's just the other way about, and that I must detain you, Captain Ormiston, and that on rather unpleasant business." Julius March had risen to his feet. "You you have no fresh cause for anxiety about Lady Calmady?" he said hurriedly. The doctor glanced up at the tall, spare, black figure and dark, sensitive face with a half-sneering, half-pitying smile.
Pilate did pick out of this saying an increased certainty that he had nothing to fear from this strange 'King'; and half-amused contempt for a dreamer, and half-pitying wonder at such lofty claims from such a helpless enthusiast, prompted his question, 'Art Thou a king then? One can fancy the scornful emphasis on that 'Thou. and can understand how grotesquely absurd the notion of his prisoner's being a king must have seemed.
Sylla himself felt the position; and having completed what he had undertaken, with a half-pitying, half-contemptuous self- abandonment he executed what from the first he had intended he resigned the dictatorship, and became a private citizen again, amusing the leisure of his age, as he had abused the leisure of his youth, with theatres and actresses and dinner-parties.
"It's this cursed calm that's done it; though I expected it all along, with the ship crammed as she is. When I was in the Hecuba " "Who is it?" Pine laughed a half-pitying, half-angry laugh. "A convict, of course. Who else should it be? They are reeking like bullocks at Smithfield down there.
He tried to stop himself in his impetuous career, he put on all his brakes, literally skimming along the street railway-track as if he were out simply for a slide, passing the cat, who gave him a half-contemptuous, half-pitying look; and then, after inspecting the sky to see if the rain was really over and how the wind was, he came back to his place between the father and The Boy as if it were all a matter of course and of every-day occurrence.
It is, in truth, to the literary purpose of the humourist, in the old-fashioned sense of the term, that this method of writing naturally allies itself of the humourist to whom all the world is but a spectacle in which nothing is really alien from himself, who has hardly a sense of the distinction between great and little among things that are at all, and whose half-pitying, half-amused sympathy is called out especially by the seemingly small interests and traits of character in the things or the people around him.
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