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Nora sprang across the road to the chaise. "Oh, Daisy, where are you going?" "I am going to carry some things for mamma, to a house." "All alone?" "No, Sam is there to take care of me." Nora looked back at the black pony, and then at Daisy. "Isn't it nice!" she said, with a sort of half-regretful admiration. "It's as nice as a fairy tale," said Daisy.
He looked into her eyes for an instant, holding himself very erect, and it was a rare event when Sir John looked any one squarely in the eyes, and he said, wonderingly, "How I loved you!" "I know," she murmured. Sylvia Vernon gazed up into his bloated old face with a proud tenderness that was half-regretful. A quavering came into her gentle voice.
And Anton himself was bitterly aware of the expression of half-puzzled, half-regretful disdain that he encountered so often in Ivan's eyes.
Sometimes he would do so in a half-regretful tone, as one himself obeying the call of duty; sometimes he would appear for some minutes, a benignant spectator, upon the balcony, and summon them to work at length with a lenient pity for he was by no means a hard-hearted man; but at other times he would step sharply and suddenly out and shout the word of command with a grim and ominous expression.
Oil Prop'ties and Leases. Gosh! It's a great idea, son!" His smile lingered, but a moment later there came into his eyes a half-regretful light. Barbara read his thought almost before he was aware of it, and, rising, she laid her hand upon his shoulder. Wistfully she said, "I'm awfully sorry, too, dad " "Eh?" " that I disappointed you so by not being a boy.
He was never sure whether they were deliberate traps, or merely the half-regretful, backward looking of a woman to whom life lately had not been kind. Nevertheless it kept his nerves on edge. For he valued his peace and his home that was in the making.
"Come and have a stroll round," Jim suggested; and Cicely, with a half-regretful glance at the tennis lawn, rose to go with him. They went to the rhododendron dell round the lake. It was where every one went naturally if they wanted to walk and talk at the same time.
The sudden gust of wind carried him quite back to the moment when he sent out his note as the Norwegian heroes their high-seat pillars: the spirit of his twenty-fourth year came wholly over him, queerly mixed with the half-regretful reflection of the thirtieth year, with fun, inclination to talk and to breathe; and he exclaimed, as he rose to acknowledge the toast: "I am engaged." "Ay! ay!
"I was younger, when I actually went into battle, for then it was war; now, we have a peace that promises to be endless, and Bob will have abundance of time to cultivate a beard before he smells gunpowder. As for myself" he added in a half-regretful manner, for old habits and opinions would occasionally cross his mind "as for myself, the cultivation of turnips must be my future occupation.
I have never been able to look upon mountain or valley with other than my corporal eyes, and I have always admired those places in a half-regretful way, where the print of human footsteps is unknown.
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