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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Humph! Then, according to your logic, the Ned Willard whom you know is simply a mortal, physical manifestation of will power, catering to his own appetites and desires, and so becoming their bond servant, and there is no true image and likeness of God, or real man about him," was the young man's half-quizzical rejoinder.
But, after the consent of the mother at the gardener's cottage had been gained, Doctor Milton left Heartholm, taking Gargoyle with him. In the office of Dr. Pauli Mach, the professional tongue was freed. Milton, with the half-quizzical earnestness habitual to him, told his story, which was followed by the exchange of much interesting data.
Of course, if you wanted to go for pleasure " His head a little on one side, he regarded her with a tender, half-quizzical smile, hoping he had sounded the note that would bring him swift surrender. "It isn't altogether for myself there are the others," Johnnie told him, lifting honest eyes to his in the dim moonlight.
"I was afraid," whispered Toby piteously. "Afraid! Why on earth?" Saltash's hand suddenly found and fondled the fair head. His speech was no longer curt, but gentle, with a half-quizzical tenderness. "Aren't you rather an ass, boy? What was there to be afraid of?" Toby could not tell him.
Her hour-old husband looked at her with an expression half-quizzical, half-adoring as she sat back and glanced up with a heartfelt sigh, secure at last of her position as the wife of Richard Percival. Until this moment she had never wholly believed it. "I'm glad the wedding's over," she said. "And I. More glad that our married life has begun. Lena, Lena, how beautiful you are!
It was bitterly cold and though I begged him to be selfish for once and take a cab, he wouldn't you remember his Spartan contempt of costly comforts and I can see him now, going down the steps, smiling, shaking his head, waving his hand, and saying with that half-sad, half-quizzical, smile of his, 'Plenty of people who need bread a good deal more than I need cabs, little daughter. So, in the icy wind, he walked to the cable-car, with its over-heated atmosphere.
"Let me look at you," said they, peering and peeking about him for the solution of the mystery. For mystery there must be when a great man yes, that's what he was already should look just the same on the outside as Tom or Dick or Harry should even enjoy a simple breakfast of fresh herring and tea. "I am just like everybody else," he would answer to their half-quizzical inspection.
"But you hadn't mentioned her." There was the briefest of pauses; then with a half-quizzical dejection, there came the remark: "You seem to forget. I told you that I stayed here this summer for reasons too numerous, and one too heart-breaking, to mention. She was the one." "You mean " "Yes. The usual thing. She turned me down. Oh, I haven't asked her yet as many times as I did you, but " "Hugh!"
He is big and looks awkward, because his dusty-gray clothes do not fit, and he walks with a slight stoop. When he wants clothes he telephones for them. His necktie is worn by the right oblique, his iron-gray hair is combed by the wind. On his cherubic face usually sits a half-quizzical, pleased smile, that fades into a look plaintive and very gentle.
More especially" and a half-quizzical smile lit up his grave but kindly face as he turned toward Miss Moppet and gently pinched her little ear, "more especially as the gentleman has taken the law in his own hands and escaped from Wolcott Manor despite the fact that as it is the residence of a Continental officer and the sheriff of Litchfield County it might be supposed to have exceptional reasons for detaining him.
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