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Updated: June 13, 2025
Piers raised his brows without looking up. The old man brought down an impatient fist on the table. "Why can't you say what you think?" he demanded angrily. "You sit there with your mouth shut as if as if " His eyes went suddenly to the woman's face on the wall with the red lips that smiled half-sadly, half-mockingly, and the eyes that perpetually followed him but never smiled at all.
And although I rejoiced in his joy, still I felt half-sadly for a moment, the vague, fine line of division which was thus for evermore drawn between him and me of no fault on either side, and of which he himself was unaware. It was but the right and natural law of things, the difference between the married and unmarried, which only the latter feel.
As he spoke he jerked one arm toward the priest, who was still talking by the fire, and then gave me a swift glance of amused contempt. The factor also turned his eyes upon me, and I felt my face grow hot. "I am to be married to-morrow," he replied half-sadly. "At least, that is the present arrangement. But I have been thinking of late "
She looked in Marchmont's face and then shook her head, half-sadly, half-playfully. "You don't understand a bit, do you?" she asked. "No, I don't," he said bluntly, with an accent of impatience and almost of exasperation. Recognising it, she gave the slightest shrug of her shoulders. "It's my infatuation again, I suppose, as you all said when I married him. It makes you all angry.
"Besides, we are young, we have few wants, and we can easily reduce our wants to our havings." "And no more grey silk gowns?" said her husband, half-fondly, half-sadly. "You will not be so rude as to say I shall not look equally well in a cotton one? And as for being as happy in it why, I know best."
"Yes," he nodded half-sadly to me, "in her last years Hiwilani went back to the old ways, and to the old beliefs in secret, of course. And, BELIEVE me, she was some collector herself. You should have seen her bones. She had them all about her bedroom, in big jars, and they constituted most all her relatives, except a half-dozen or so that Kanau beat her out of by getting to them first.
"Will you ever forgive me?" asked Dino, looking half-sadly, half-doubtfully, into his face. "I am not sure that you ever will. I have betrayed you. I have said that you were alive." Brian's face first turned red, then deathly pale. He withdrew his hand from Dino's grasp, and took a backward step. "You!" he said, in a stifled voice. "You! whom I thought to be my friend!"
On one of the points an old swamp-maple, with its decrepit branches and its leaves already touched with the hectic colours of decay, hung far out over the water which was undermining it, looking and leaning downward, like an aged man who bends, half-sadly and half-willingly, towards the grave.
The sound of her soft contralto singing an old French nursery rhyme echoed faintly back to the library: "Mon pere m'a donne un petit mari, Mon Dieu, quel homme!" And, listening, Miss Craven smiled half-sadly, for the quaint words carried her back to the days of her own childhood. But the exigencies of the present thrust aside past memories.
His eyes took on a kindlier expression as he saw the change that gave her a wondrously younger look, and a rush of memories caused him to smile reminiscently, half-sadly, half-tenderly. The effect on him was apparent in the pleasanter voice with which he next addressed his niece, playfully: "My, my! She'd be sending him home to his mother, I expect, if only he had a mother."
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