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Her eyebrows lifted slightly. Her head inclined ever so little in the direction of the half-scared, half-defiant "chicken." "You attend to your chicken, Mary," she said. "I'll see to my weasel." So Emma McChesney and her son Jock, looking remarkably like brother and sister, walked down the broad store aisles and out into the street. There was little conversation between them.
Sylvia had a feeling as of being held down and compelled to drink some strangely paralyzing draught. She made a slight, half-scared movement and in a moment his hand released hers. "You do object!" he said. She clasped her hands tightly together. "Please don't say or think that! It is such a sudden idea, and it's rather a wild one, isn't it?" Her breath came quickly.
"Enemy or no, you love him better than you love anyone else in the world. Look me in the face and say that is not true, if you can!" He turned away, and looked out into the garden. She watched him furtively, half-scared at what she had done; there was something terrifying in his silence. At last she stole up to him, like a frightened child, and timidly pulled his sleeve. He turned round.
George will come to you as soon as the way is clear. God be with you!" "You are quite sure there are no ghosts about, Uncle George?" asked Carette in a half-scared whisper, for she was still a devout believer in all such things. "I've never seen the ghost of one," said Uncle George, with a laugh. "Here, Phil!
So now he was absurdly glad to hear her declare, in answer to Lady Claire's questionings, "Oh, but the desert is wonderful! I loved it in spite of " "In spite of ?" Lady Claire echoed. "The sand," said Arlee promptly. But under her lashes, her eyes came, at last, half-scared, to Billy's face. "But the sand is the desert," Lady Claire was murmuring.
'He is not happy with his wife, Isabelle concluded sagely; 'she doesn't understand him, and that's why she has that half-scared look. "I believe you really want to play the game as much as anybody," she ventured with a little thrill of surprise to find herself talking so personally with a man other than her husband. "You think so?" he demanded, and his face grew wistful.
The boys and the little youngsters seemed half-scared to death at the sight of me, and so I didn't bother to get acquainted with them yet." The Dean looked up at her over his glasses with a quizzical expression, and Miss Daphne fairly caught her breath. "The Beaubiens on the shore, my dear?" she asked. "Those half-breed French Canadians?"
"Bless me!" said Father Anselmo, when the services were over, casting a half-scared glance after the retreating figure of the Superior as he left the chapel, and drawing a long breath; "it's enough to make one sweat to hear him go on. What has come over him? Anyhow, I'll give myself a hundred lashes this very night: something must be done."
The only difference was that now, when she and Blair squabbled, they made up again in new ways; Blair, with gusts of what Elizabeth, annoyed and a little disgusted, called "silliness"; Elizabeth, with strange, half-scared, wholly joyous moments of conscious power.
All went well, and better than well, and even Jasmine forgot her undefined fears, until a little past ten o'clock, when a wild-looking, half-scared girl rushed in and said, 'Oh, the poor thing the poor thing and I meant no harm I did not, really! 'What is the matter? said Mr Lennox.
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