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Updated: May 7, 2025
One wished for the apples, but he did not like to fight the dragons." It was the tutor who spoke from the dark corner by the fire-place. His eyes shone like a cat's, and MacGreedy felt like a half-scared mouse, and made up his mind to cry.
Another of them was propounded somewhat later, when Mad Bell returned from an unusually long ramble, during which she had crossed the Liffey by the spacious O'Connell Bridge, and had heard the boom of the big College bell, and with her wizened-lemon face had half-scared the smallest-sized children in villages round about Dublin.
The monks themselves seemed for an instant to be infected by this spirit of daring revolt. Their own lifelong fetters hung more loosely as they viewed this unheard-of defiance of authority. They broke from their seats on either side and huddled half-scared, half-fascinated, in a large half-circle round the defiant captive, chattering, pointing, grimacing, a scandal for all time.
Yet they approached nearer; they came to the edge and stood looking in. As though he could not believe the mere sight of his eyes, big Neddy crouched down, reached out his hand, and took up Mr. Saffron's scepter. With a look of half-scared amazement he held it up for his companion's inspection. Mike eyed it uneasily, but his thoughts were getting back to business.
You have made a mistake all the rest of you. I would go and speak to him, and tell him to get up and not make all this fuss, if it was me." "Oh, Janey! hold your tongue," said Ursula; but she, too, looked half-scared at the bed, and then turned wistful inquiring eyes to Northcote.
"If I'd fight him now while he's spooky and half-scared it would spoil him maybe," he explained. "I gentle-break mine, too," she said, and the man overlooked the inflection which, as plainly as words, was intended to convey the impression that his ways were effeminate. "If every man used up his time gentling his string he'd never have a day off to work at anything else."
The introspective gleam which shone in everybody's eye, betrayed the half-scared pleasure with which each in his own mind was turning over the daring imagination. "Wy not, arter all?" said Meshech Little, hesitatingly, as if his logic didn't convince himself. "They wuz gonter lick us. They'd a had us licked by this time. It's tit for tat."
So of his own accord he had begun to watch them when a child of six; and the padre had taken the wild, half-scared, spellbound creature and made a musician of him. "There, Felipe!" he said now. "Can you do it? Slower, and more softly, muchacho. It is about the death of a man, and it should go with our bell." The boy listened.
Her fleet glance at him was half-scared. "You you are very good to your countrywomen in distress," she got out stammeringly. Billy contemplated his cigar. It was safer. Presently she reverted to the topic of discovery. "But about Mr. Falconer? Are you sure his suspicions are over now?" "Perfectly sure. Or they will be the moment he sees you.
'Oh, that bloomin' little liar! when I never said a word o' such a thing! 'I'll believe her a good deal sooner than you, returned Clara sharply. 'Why, anybody can see she's tellin' the truth can't they, father? She's half-scared out of her life. Come in here, Jane; you shall stay here till morning.
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