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'There was no helping it, he said with hasty defiance. There was a moment's silence. Then a wish to explain himself rose in David. 'I couldn't have stayed, sir, he said, with a curious half-reproachful accent. 'I told you about how it was before you left. And there were other things. I should have cut my own throat or some one else's if it had gone on. But I haven't forgotten Louie.
"I wish, dearest Ghita, I could persuade you to like the name of Yvard," rejoined the young man, in a half-reproachful, half-tender manner, "and I should care nothing for any other.
"Now, just for curiosity, look at it oh! you can't see it from away off there, looking at it sideways!" He gives her a half-reproachful, half-beseeching smile and glance, and gathers up his dropped bridle. They come closer. Their two near shoulders approach each other, the two elbows touch, and two dissimilar hands hold down the leaves.
I didn't mean any harm. I I was so sorry for you both." He laughed again softly. "You've got to marry him!" he said triumphantly. "There! you may go now. But you'll come again soon. I know you will!" She seemed to slip, to melt, out of the room. But he had a last vision of flushed cheeks, and half-reproachful eyes.
For mine is a double grief a double loss I have lost my uncle and best friend and I shall lose you because you will not love me, though I love you with all my heart and only want to make you happy!" Her sad eyes met his with a direct, half-reproachful gaze. "You think me selfish?" "No! no, Innocent! but " "I see!" she said "You think I ought to sacrifice myself to you, and to Dad's last wish.
It was just as if I saw her with that half-whimsical, half-reproachful expression in her eyes, holding up her finger at me. And there were other mornings when she'd say, 'The mountain's lonesome today, he wants me. And I vow, I'd look at the mountain and it would seem lonesome. That sounds like nonsense, don't it?" Euphrasia demanded, with a sudden sharpness.
Theos, my beloved!" till, moved by a vague tremor of anxiety, he lifted his drooping eyelids and gazed full in a sort of half-incredulous, half-reproachful amaze at the musical necromancer who had conjured up all these apparitions, what did this wonderful Sarasate know of his Past?
"Why did you interrupt Louise when she was going to say something good?" asked Marguerite in a half-reproachful tone. "Just because I want no scenes until to-morrow evening, when Miss Louise Rutherford and Miss Rushton will not display their histrionic ability to a desert air."
The knight was himself, indeed, just as little pleased with Undine's childish behaviour as the rest; but all his looks and half-reproachful words were to no purpose.
Aasta had a Spartan tone in her wild maternal heart; and assures Olaf that she, with a half-reproachful glance at Sigurd, will stand by him to the death in this his just and noble enterprise. Sigurd promises to consult farther in his neighborhood, and to correspond by messages; the result is, Olaf resolutely pushing forward himself, resolves to call a Thing, and openly claim his kingship there.
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