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Updated: May 16, 2025
She looked in Marchmont's face and then shook her head, half-sadly, half-playfully. "You don't understand a bit, do you?" she asked. "No, I don't," he said bluntly, with an accent of impatience and almost of exasperation. Recognising it, she gave the slightest shrug of her shoulders. "It's my infatuation again, I suppose, as you all said when I married him. It makes you all angry.
A little daughter half-playfully and half-wilfully, announced her intention to follow her own pleasure in a certain case. "Milicent is a Hedonist," said the guest, and the Oxford scholar brought Aristippus and Epicurus into odd conjunction with a Mississippi Valley breakfast-table. He laid aside his white woollen suit, but his attire remained unconventional, not to say outré.
Then he glanced curiously at Philip, who sat silent, but whose face was very grave and earnest, even noble, with that shade of profound thought upon it. He looked like one who had suddenly accepted a high trust, in which there was not only pride, but tenderness. Lorimer shook himself together, as he himself would have expressed it, and touched his friend's arm half-playfully.
Everything I see and hear and read disagrees with me, so I suppose it is only a natural consequence that I should be disagreeable. Oh, dear, dear! What is the good of living, Rose? What is the use or beauty of anything? The Rev. the Archdeacon of York half-playfully says I need to be regenerated. Dr. Widmer says my circulation is weak. Poor mamma says nothing; but she looks a world of reproach.
Everybody liked him; everybody said, 'He is splendidly gifted; he will go far. A few of us already addressed him, half-playfully perhaps, as cher maître. He was three or four years older than I eight- or nine-and-twenty to my twenty-five and I was still in the schools; but for all that we were great chums.
"But you have not lived a wandering life lately; you have lived here for many years." "Because the lodestone, the magnet of my heart was here," he answered half-playfully, half-tenderly. "When that is gone, I shall be likely to fly off in a tangent again." "Oh, Jack, you must not talk so. I want to see you in the years to come. I must and I will. I feel it," she added brightly.
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