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An absentee, voluntarily, I never yet have been; and as to the future, I declare 'I declare you know nothing of the future, interrupted Lady Dashfort, in a half-peremptory, half-playful tone 'you know nothing; make no rash vows, and you will break none.
You have made me feel quite old and worldly to-night, and the worst of it is that you are invariably right. It is most annoying." Her voice was only half-playful. There was a shade of sadness in it. Christian must have divined her thoughts, for he said: "Do not let us quarrel over Signor Bruno. I dare say I am wrong altogether." She looked slowly round.
"Shall I explain the situation to you from my point of view?" said he. At the sound of his voice she looked up in alarm. The indulgent, half-playful manner which she had almost lost the sense of because it was so invariable with him in speaking to ladies was suddenly gone. She felt that the real man was coming out now without ceremony. He was quick to perceive the effect he had produced.
It would fall on him in one of those half-playful, half-vicious attacks that are the humor of the street, and sometimes it was rather a battered Joey who returned to Clayton's handsome office, to assist him in running the mill. But it was a very cool and slightly scornful Joey who confronted Anna that noon hour. He lost no time in preliminaries.
If your er impediment hasn't stood in my way, why should mine in yours?" He spoke with a half-impatient, half-playful reproach. The woman uttered a little cry. To soothe and silence her, he kissed her. It was very risky, of course, but then the whole situation was risky, and he took his chance like the bold player he was.
"Tea?" she returned, lifting up the silver teapot and holding it towards him with an encouraging, half-playful gesture. Lord Holme yawned again, put up his hands to his hair, and then looked steadily at the teapot, which his wife was moving about in the sunbeams that were shining in at the window. The morning was fine. "Tea, Fritz?" He smiled and began to roll out of bed.
Irene went up to her chamber, feeling sadder than she had ever felt in her life; yet, mingling, with her sadness and self-reproaches, were complaining thoughts of her lover. For a little half-playful pettishness was she to be visited with a punishment like this? If he had really loved her so she queried would he have flung himself away after this hasty fashion?
"Oh," said the duke, "by the time she arrives there we will have changed all that. Lorencez is there now; our army will then be in the city of Mexico; the roads will be quite safe. Have no fear." A mild, half-playful argument followed in the course of which my guardian, I thought, was not quite as uncompromising in his criticism as he was when surrounded by those who shared his own opinions.
And some acceptances, some atonements, came too late. The Pottses had not been the only members of the little circle gathered about her father who had called forth her mother's wounding levity. She had taken refuge on many other occasions in the half-playful, half-decisive, "I hate 'em," as if to throw up the final barrier of her own perversity before pursuit.
Observing that I am still standing near the door, he makes a half-serious, half-playful motion with his hand, and points to a chair. I turn aside, so that he may not see that I have no waistcoat on, when I open my coat to take the manuscript out of my pocket. "It is only a little character sketch of Correggio," I say; "but perhaps it is, worse luck, not written in such a way that...."
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