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Still a rigid decorum reigned among the elder dancers, and the figures were called out in grave formality, as if, to Brooks's fancy, they were hymns given from the pulpit, until at the close of the set, in half-real, half-mock despair, he turned desperately to Mrs. Wade, his partner: "Do you waltz?" Mrs. Wade hesitated. She HAD, before marriage, and was a good waltzer.
The unwonted sweetness of the air, the long, twining sun-shadows of late afternoon, the intense, country stillness, all of them helped the oppression of memory, till gradually he began to feel himself enwrapped in a shimmering, elusive mist of half-real dreams. He perceived that the windows were fast-shut, double-paned, their cracks stuffed with the customary winter moss.
Whereupon, after a short pause, he told his master that he had been deceived; for such lashes as these were each worth being paid for with a half-real, not a quartillo. "Go on, friend Sancho," said Don Quixote, "take courage, I will double the pay." "God save us, let it rain stripes in that case," quoth Sancho.
Amid redoubled outcries he gave the helm to Camille Brahmin, and fighting his way with his pretty feet against half-real efforts to throw him overboard, clambered forward to the mast, whence a moment later, with the help of the schooner-master's hand, he reached the deck of the larger vessel. The Pique-en-terre turned, and with a little flutter spread her smooth wing and skimmed away.
"Yes, you are young, but some people's age cannot be reckoned by years. I am glad to see you have developed a certain amount of half-real and half-assumed youthfulness lately, but when the novelty of your present life wears away, your old mature nature will be there, so it is of no use feigning childishness. Harold Beecham is not given to speech action with him is the same thing.
They remained motionless until it had reached nearly a hundred yards, and then, with a sudden half-real, half-assumed, but altogether delightful trepidation, ran forward and caught up with it again. This they repeated two or three times until both themselves and the excitement were exhausted, and they again plodded on hand in hand. Presently Clarence uttered a cry. "My! Susy look there!"
He told Presley in a few words what had happened during the first night he had spent in the garden of the old Mission, of the Answer, half-fancied, half-real, that had come to him. "To no other person but you would I speak of this," he said, "but you, I think, will understand will be sympathetic, at least, and I feel the need of unburdening myself of it to some one.
"You should begin by eating this biscuit, drinking that glass of whiskey, and making yourself more comfortable in Jim's room until we can get the spare room fixed a little." "But I am not to be sent to bed am I?" asked Mainwaring, in half-real, half-amused consternation. "I'm not so sure of that," said Mrs. Bradley, with playful precision.
His presence in that half-real setting seemed a satire upon the beauties achieved by man and God. "Who?" asked Estabrook involuntarily. "The Sheik of Baalbec," I said. The man looked up at me again. "Mortimer Cranch," said I. He fell forward on his face. It was several moments before any of us moved. Cranch spoke first.
These groups, in purely classic taste, are not wanting in merit, and show in some parts good study of the nude; their pedestals are ornamented with medallions, whereon the Prussian eagle, half-real, half-heraldic, makes a fine appearance. Considered as a decoration, the whole is, in my opinion, somewhat too rich for the simplicity of the bridge, which opens midway to allow the passage of vessels.
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