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Updated: May 15, 2025
And here he was, ordering her about and piercing her with gimlet eyes, for all the world as if he were Claude Delamere, in the thirty-second chapter of "The Man of Chilled Steel", the one where Claude drags Lady Matilda around the smoking-room by her hair because she gave the rose from her bouquet to the Italian count. She was half-cowed, half-resentful.
"I feel as if I'd had an adventure with a bear," said she, half-laughing, half-resentful. "So you did," declared he; "I'm a bear and every other sort of animal except rabbit. There's no rabbit in me. Now, your men the Grant Arkwrights are all rabbit." "At least," said she, "do refrain from tearing my hair down. A woman who does her hair well hates to have it mussed."
She, however, paid no attention to these manifestations of inquisitiveness; standing in the witness-box, a tear-soaked handkerchief in her hands, half-sullen, half-resentful of mouth and eye, she looked at nobody but the Coroner; her whole expression was that of a defenceless animal, pinned in a corner and watchful of its captor.
She dominated the scene, and Lady Marayne, with a certain astonishment in her eyes and a smouldering disposition to irony, was the half-sympathetic, half-resentful priestess of her daughter-in-law's unparalleled immolation.
They had been the most delightful events in Ella's girlhood, and she felt it to be entirely Emily's fault that Emily did not find them equally enchanting. "But I don't know the people who go to them very well!" Emily would say, half-confidential, half-resentful. Ella always met this argument with high scorn. "Oh, Baby, if you'd stop whining and fretting, and just get in and enjoy yourself once!"
"I shall sit here." With a parting look at her extended in a chair a look half-resentful, half-adoring Soames moved into the lift and was transported to their suite on the fourth floor. He stood by the window of the sitting-room which gave view over Hyde Park, and drummed a finger on its pane. His feelings were confused, tetchy, troubled.
Then his quick glances took in various details of the ranch and he sighed again, from a different emotion. "It must have been a great place twenty years ago," he amended his first unqualified enthusiasm. "Why twenty years ago?" The Native Son gave him a quick, half-resentful glance.
He had apparently outgrown his fits of unbalanced talkativeness, and had become, with the difficult years, one of those boys who speak with almost comical rarity, and then with unemotional gruffness. This power of reticence never fails to win respect, if of a half-irritated, half-resentful order, and Ishmael held a certain position in the school.
As she read the half-resentful, half-appealing demand in them, a slow smile dawned in her own. Had the gathering under the tree been a party of "mere people," it would have gasped. Had it been a "freak party," it would have been loud-voiced in its expressions of surprise. Being a "best party," it gave no outward sign; but a sense of blank astonishment, purely mental, was in the air.
Now and then a big fellow made an offer, and held out his hand for a little Pictish grazier to give it a slap a cattle bargain being concluded by a slap of the hand but the Welshman generally turned away, with a half-resentful exclamation. There were a few horses and ponies in a street leading into the fair from the south. "I saw none sold, however.
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