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"You believe, by shutting me away from everything, every one, you can win what otherwise you could not get?" It all seemed cruelly plain, now. She felt she had always known it. "Something like that, yes. You'll come to me fast enough, after to-night. Once you come I'll I'll do the fair and square thing by you, Priscilla." The half-pleading caught the girl's thought.
Catching it dexterously in one hand, she twisted it up again in a loose knot, thrusting the comb carelessly through. "Drink smoke talk, Sergius!" she repeated, still smiling; "Shall I ring?" Sergius Thord stood looking at her irresolutely, with the half-angry, half-pleading expression of a chidden child. "As you please, Lotys!" he answered.
Anne resigned herself to his company until she reached the gate of Patty's Place, which she coldly shut in his face, fondly supposing she had seen the last of him. But when, fifteen minutes later, Phil opened the door, there sat the rusty-brown cat on the step. More, he promptly darted in and sprang upon Anne's lap with a half-pleading, half-triumphant "miaow."
The words quoted above were the words of Canning, but the spirit that animated them was that of George III. His storm-tossed life was now verging towards the dread bourne of insanity; but it was given to him to make this stern yet half-pleading appeal to the Czar's better nature.
His mother gave him a magnificent look, warning, silencing, appealing. "I'll explain it to you later, dear!" she said, half-annoyed and half-pleading. "You may announce dinner, Bottomley!" Bottomley duly announced dinner. But he might have added something to the conversation, had he been permitted.
"John, dear," she said in a half-pleading tone there were some times when this last word slipped out "I don't want this marriage at all. I am so wretched about it that I feel like taking the first steamer and bringing her home with me. She will forget all about him when she is here; and it is only her loneliness that makes her want to marry.
Ralph paid no heed to the taunting inquiry. He looked over at Aim-sa, who had shrunk away. Now she answered his look with one that was half-pleading, half-amused. She realized the feud which was between the men, but she did not understand the rugged, forceful natures which she had so stirred. "Say, gal," Ralph said abruptly. "Ther's jest us two.
I am, oh, so glad I belong to you instead of to anybody else." "So am I," he responded, with a happy little laugh. "And that I do too, papa?" asked Grace, in a half-pleading tone. "Yes, yes, my own darling," he said, addressing her with great tenderness. "You are no less dear than your sister."
An estate to be settled some bothering old claim that had been handed down from generation to generation, and now springing into life again by the lapsing of two lives on the other side. But how to tell her as she looked up into my face with the half-pleading, half-imperious smile that I knew so well? How to tell her now?
The dinner had left me as much in the dark as ever, and I was trying to make up my mind what to do next. "'Why not stay here and smoke? I asked. "'No, walk along with me as far as the traghetto, please, and he laid his hand in a half-pleading way on my arm. "Again that same troubled look in his face that I had seen once before made me alter my mind.
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