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Inez had by this time so far recovered her composure that she was able to meet us again in the living room. "I'm very sorry to have to trouble you again," apologized Kennedy, "but if I am to get anywhere in this case I must have the facts." She looked at him, half-puzzled, and, I fancied, half-frightened, too. "Anything I can tell you of course, ask me," she said.
"That you have given me an antidote against old age," was the ringing and unexpected reply, as the thoughtful, half-puzzled aspect of the old man yielded impulsively to a burst of his early enthusiasm.
He was aware that the tall man was staring at him rather fixedly and with a half-puzzled frown, as though he thought that they had met before and was trying to remember when, but Ste. Marie gave the man but a swift glance. His eyes were upon the dark face of the young woman beyond, and it seemed to him that she called aloud to him in an actual voice that rang in his ears.
Looking round, still half-puzzled to believe such a wonderful thing, she saw a great many pleased faces, and heard Mrs Leigh say: "I think you have chosen very well, and I am glad Lilac will be Queen this year." It was, then, really true. "How pleased Mother'll be!" was her first thought; but her second was not so pleasant, for her eye fell on Agnetta.
The two men stood a moment facing each other with the same half-defiant, half-puzzled look they had exchanged at that other meeting, not so long ago. Christie was the first to break the silence. "There wa' n't never much love lost between Eliza and me," he remarked, as if pursuing a train of thought that had been interrupted.
Such is the clearest idea I can give you of my feeling towards children I like, but to whom I am a stranger; and to what children am I not a stranger? They seem to me little wonders; their talk, their ways are all matter of half-admiring, half-puzzled speculation." The following is part of a long letter which I received from her, dated September 20th, 1851:
He came hurriedly, a number of papers in one hand, wearing just the old anxious look of important care that they knew so well. And yet how changed he was! Instead of moving at once to his place at the long table he hesitated, looked at Bentinck-Major, at Foster, then at Bond, half-puzzled, as though he had never seen them before. "I must apologise, gentlemen," he said, "for being late.
"But I am going out of your depth again, girls," continued he, looking at our wondering, half-puzzled faces. "Let it go, Alice; Life is a problem too hard for you to solve as yet; perhaps it will solve itself.
"Ah! you are Fabian," she says, half-puzzled by his manner. "If you will take my word for it." His tone is even more strange as he says this, and now he does smile, but disagreeably. Portia colors faintly. "You have not asked me my name?" she says quietly. "I am Portia." "What a very pretty name!"
"Now you, Grant," said Sir Francis. I walked boldly to the candle and held up my heavily-nailed garden boots, so that Sir Francis could see the soles. "That will do, my lad," he said. "Now you, Courtenay, and you, Philip." They came forward half-puzzled, but I saw clearly enough Sir Francis' reasons, Ike's remark about the fresh digging having given me the clue.
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