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Agnes watched all this dainty preparation with a look of half-sarcastic surprise. When the note was placed in her hand, she examined the address and the seal with parted lips, as if she would have smiled, but for a feeling of profound astonishment. "To General Harrington. The seal a cupid writing on a tablet. Well, what am I to do with this?"
You said a moment ago that I told you I loved you. I did tell you that and I thought that I meant it, but when I found that I could not go with you as you asked I knew I had been mistaken. You must remember that I decided against you before I knew the reason you wanted me to leave." The half-sarcastic smile curled Gibson's lips.
The poor Viking, indeed, had begun to look almost middle-aged, and Cicely with a pang had discovered or fancied some streaks of grey in the splendid red beard and curly hair. At the same time her half-sarcastic sense perceived that he was far better provided than Nelly, with the means of self-protection against his trouble.
"Why not let me drive?" said a girl's half-sarcastic voice. "I've driven a Vauxhall most of the winter." Buntingford turned, smiling but uncertain. "Of course! I had forgotten! But I don't like taking you into danger, Helena. It sounds like an ugly affair!" "Lodge and I will go with her," said French, eagerly. "We can stop the car outside the town. Horne can go with Dale."
After Europe and England, the most important confidence to obtain was that of Lord Hainault, and Baron Sergius had not been unsuccessful in that respect. "Your master has only to be liberal and steady," said Lord Hainault, with his accustomed genial yet half-sarcastic smile, "and he may have anything he likes. But we do not want any wars; they are not liked in the City."
‘There, then; take it.’ I pressed it earnestly to my lips, and put it in my bosom, Mrs. Huntingdon looking on with a half-sarcastic smile. ‘Now, are you going?’ said she. ‘I will if—if I must.’ ‘You are changed,’ persisted she—‘you are grown either very proud or very indifferent.’ ‘I am neither, Helen—Mrs. Huntingdon. If you could see my heart—’ ‘You must be one,—if not both. And why Mrs.
She figured him sternly weighing instances of her levity in this masculine court of inquiry into feminine morality and gruffly dismissing both her and her family with some half-sarcastic, half-tolerant phrase which sealed her doom, as far as he was concerned, for ever. Having met him so lately, the sense of his character was strong in her.
Cuningham, who had been making money with some rapidity of late, was displaying before the half-sympathetic, half-sarcastic eyes of Watson, some presents that he was just sending off to his mother and sisters in Scotland. A white dress, a lace shawl, some handkerchiefs, a sash, a fan there they lay, ranged on brown paper on the studio floor.
They might not feel at liberty to call upon you, Lady Catheron, of course, but all the same they will only be too happy if Lady Catheron will so far honor them." He says this in the old lazy, pleasant voice, but it is quite evident he does not mean to spare her his half-sarcastic accent makes her wince as though in actual bodily pain.
That is reasonable, isn't it?" "Certainly, sir," murmured the abashed pupil. "The point settled, then, we will proceed," said the veteran, with the same incomprehensible, half-sarcastic, half-humorous, but now quite good-natured smile lighting up his grim visage. "But before we proceed," said Frank, "may I just say what I was going to?"
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