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Updated: May 6, 2025
For a second or so Esther gazed in sheer bewilderment, then raising herself still more, she whispered, half-alarmed, half-questioning, "Mademoiselle, is that you?" Mademoiselle rose at once. "Are you better, darling?" she said, bending over and laying a soft hand on her head. Esther noticed that she spoke in a strange, hushed voice. "Are you ill, Mademoiselle?" she asked anxiously. "No, darling.
His quick friendly smile did not hide the fact that his attention was not all hers; he seemed pleasantly absorbed in his own thoughts. Susan gave his clean-shaven, clear- skinned face many a half-questioning look as she sat beside him on the boat. He was more polite, more gentle, more kind that she remembered him what was missing, what was wrong to-day?
Oh! they die here thus each day, and I watch them die and keep the count of the number of them," and drawing a tally-stick from the thatch of the hut, she took a knife and added a notch to the many that appeared upon it, looking at Nahoon the while with a half-questioning, half-warning gaze. "Yes, yes, it is a place of death," she muttered.
I had settled Miss Gibson in the cab and given her address to the driver, when I noticed her looking at me, as I thought, somewhat wistfully. "Can't I put you down somewhere?" she said, in response to a half-questioning glance from me. I seized the opportunity with thankfulness and replied
She looked into the girls' faces with a half-questioning, half-pleading expression as if fearful that this confession of her possession of a title would raise a barrier between them. "What was your title?" asked Hinpoha, leaning forward in her chair and immensely impressed. "My father was the Baron Szathmar-Vasarhély," replied Veronica.
And for the whole evening, and again next morning until he left the house, she managed to keep him in the only half-questioning belief that nothing was the matter. It was about an hour after that, that her maid came into her bedroom, where she had had her breakfast, and said that Miss Stanton wanted to see her.
He moved a step backward and looked in a half-questioning way at the silent group in front. "Perhaps," he murmured hesitatingly, "perhaps it is by childish methods that one must teach the child." He muttered a few unknown words with his eyes still fixed on guilty Dick Percival, then he turned to Mr. Early.
She stood, screened by the door as he entered, then stopped and stared at the table all set and at the inviting breakfast on the stove. Seeing Alida's half-smiling, half-questioning face, seeking his approval, he exclaimed, "Well, you HAVE stolen a march on me! I supposed you were asleep yet."
"No," answered Lena, "he is improving every day now, mamma says." "You seem rather troubled and as if something were the matter," said Bessie, simply, but in half-questioning tones, thus opening the door for confidence if Lena wished to give it. "I would like to ask you something," said Lena, wistfully. "You remember the checks papa and Russell sent me?" "Oh, yes, of course," answered Bessie.
Perhaps she realised something of this as she recovered herself, for again that glance, half-questioning, half-frightened, flashed up at him as she made reply. "No, Nick. She never said that, indeed. I wouldn't have cared if she had. It was only only " "I know," he broke in abruptly. "If it wasn't that, there is only one thing left that it could have been. I don't want you to tell me.
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