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Updated: June 11, 2025
The black three-cornered hat, broidered with gold, and adorned with three ostrich tips of red and a white and blue aigrette, was, however, the glory of his bravery. He seemed young to be a General of Division, for such his double embroideries and aigrette proclaimed him. He glanced at Philip, and replied to his salute with a half-quizzical smile on his proud and forceful face.
The jewels that she wore must have cost a fortune. The girl herself was a finished product in the arts of good breeding and grace. As M. Lemaire approached her, this girl recognized him with a smile and a half-quizzical look. "Ah, good evening, Mademoiselle Nadiboff," murmured M. Lemaire, as he bent low before the handsome young woman. "I am charmed."
I looked at the picture in silence. He kept gazing at it with a curious, half-quizzical smile, as if he were unconscious of my presence. At last he said, with a slight knitting of his brows: "It is strange strange. I sketched that in two nights ago, by the light of the fire, after I had come from the Chateau St. Louis from memory, as you see.
"Many times," said Colonel Watson, "have I recalled the mayor's look of intense disgust, the astonishing dignity of the commanding general, and the expression, half-sad, half-quizzical, on the face of the President at the evident infelicity of his introduction.
Certainly, Graeme's manner to her was not that he bore to other women. His half-quizzical, somewhat superior air of mocking devotion gave place to a simple, earnest, almost tender, respect, very new to him, but very winning.
A patient, half-sad, half-quizzical smile visited Frances Freeland's lips, as who should say: 'Yes, I know you think that I'm a fuss-box, but it really is a pity that you wear it so, darling! At sight of that smile, Kirsteen got up and kissed her gravely on the forehead.
"Well," said Osmond Orgreave to his son, thrusting out his coat-tails with his hands towards the fire, and swaying slightly to and fro on his heels and toes, "so you've had your consultation, you eminent specialists! What's the result?" He looked at his elegant son with an air half-quizzical and half-deferential. "I've told you he's evidently a little better, dad," Charlie answered casually.
She clenched her hands hard. "Don't!" she said. "You're only joking, I know. But I hate it!" His manner changed in a moment, became half-quizzical, half-caressing. "Poor little brown elf, what a shame! Well, come if you can! I shall look out for you. I may have something to show you." "May you? Oh, what?" cried Dinah, all eagerness in a moment. He laughed.
A couple of muskets lay on the sand close beside the luncheon-cloth, and in a trice she had snatched up one of them, and held our host covered. "You have deceived us, sir," she said quietly. Dr. Beauregard looked along the barrel and into her eyes with an admiring, half-quizzical smile. "Good," said he. "Good, but unnecessary.
"It is just like you to suggest such a thing; but it is quite impossible." He opened his eyes and looked at her very steadily and kindly. "Quite?" he said. She bent her head, swiftly lowering her own. "Yes thank you a million times quite." "Even if I promise never to make love to you?" he said, his voice half-quizzical, half-tender. She put out a trembling hand and laid it on his arm.
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