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The good old squire sat in an elbow-chair, and a sort of puzzled and half-satisfied complacency gave expression to his features. He declares, moreover, that he is the most miserable of men, and that he would die sooner than have the presumption to hope. Having delivered this speech with more propriety of word than usually fell to his share, the squire rose hastily and hobbled out of the room.
One hopeless month succeeded another, until a cloud seemed to close round Paul's brain, rendering him automatic in his actions, merely animal in his half-satisfied appetites. Fines and curses were his portion at the factory; curses and beatings deserved if Justice held a hurried scale at home. Paul, who had read of suicide in The Bludston Herald, turned his thoughts morbidly to death.
For with means to indulge it, Kent's Gaston-bred mania for plunging in real estate had returned upon him with all the acuteness of a half-satisfied passion. They had gone all over the house and grounds with the caretaker, and when there was nothing more to see, Penelope had prevailed on the woman to open the Venetians in the music-room.
There was in them, as in the experience of life, the fascination of hope, the excitement of a half-penetrated mystery, the longing of a half-satisfied desire.
She laid her hand upon my wrist and gently put the cup aside, saying, as she gazed thoughtfully at me: "Did you not bring me here?" "Yes," I replied. She reached for the cup, and drinking its contents, sank back upon the pillows with a half-satisfied look upon her face, as if my reply had cleared up one mystery, but left many more to be solved.
The good old squire sat in an elbow-chair, and a sort of puzzled and half-satisfied complacency gave expression to his features. He declares, moreover, that he is the most miserable of men, and that he would die sooner than have the presumption to hope. Having delivered this speech with more propriety of word than usually fell to his share, the squire rose hastily and hobbled out of the room.
Suddenly, afar out over the prairie, beyond where the dogs were challenging, there was heard the sound of a pony's neigh, an eager appeal for welcome and shelter, and Folsom sprang confidently forward, his powerful tones calling off the dogs. They came back, growling, sniffing, only half-satisfied, still bristling at the unseen visitor. "War ponies never neigh," said Folsom.
When I came to she was lying with her head on my breast dead stone dead." Lady Belward sat with closed eyes, her fingers clasping and unclasping on the top of her cane; but Sir William wore a look half-satisfied, half-excited. He now hurried his story. "I got well, and after that stayed in the North for a year. Then I passed down the continent to Mexico and South America.
Had he known the truth, that fragment of half-satisfied vanity would have been but small. In those early days of her marriage, Lady Harcourt bore her triumphs very placidly. She showed no great elation at the change that had come over her life.
Sometimes she knitted and read with a book in her lap. But when she was not reading, she smiled quietly to herself. It was a curious smile, half-satisfied as one whose prognostications have come true, half-dissatisfied as though there was no great cause for congratulation. Once Mary was curious enough to ask her why she smiled.
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