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Had he not applauded, albeit half-scornfully, the pretty actress his old playmate Susy who had audaciously and all incongruously waved the American flag in their faces? Yes! he had known it; had lived for the last few weeks in an atmosphere electrically surcharged with it and yet it had chiefly affected him in his personal homelessness.
"I think I could show you a face that would make Mademoiselle de Merrivale's sink into the most utter insignificance." "Is your beauty a Washington belle?" inquired Gaston, half-scornfully. "I do not know, I do not know anything about her.
Then he stood looking at it thoughtfully, as it lay in the palm of his hand; an eloquent testimony to that which had been starved, denied, trampled upon for years, with this result! Smiling half-scornfully at his new-found sentimentalism, he put the pieces into an empty cigarette tin, and thrust it into the top drawer of his table. As he did so, a strange thought invaded his mind.
My landlady must have overheard something, for she came in and began a conversation about God knows what; I fear I mortally offended her; I could have pitched the poor old woman out of the window! Heavens, how did I get through those nights?" "And the fit has passed?" inquired Julian when the other ceased. "The Lord be praised; yes!" Waymark laughed half-scornfully.
For once thou art quick tongued in the utterance of news!" he said half-scornfully "Bring hither the captive, an he chafes at his bonds we will ourselves release him..." and he touched his sword significantly "to a wider freedom than is found on earth!" A thrill, ran through the courtly throng at these words, and the women shuddered and grew pale.
And when we get a bit farther on we will pitch upon a snug spot where there's water, and make a bit of breakfast." "Breakfast! How?" said Pen, smiling; but, wearied out and faint with his sufferings, it was a very poor exhibition of mirth a sort of smile and water, like that of a sun-gleam upon a drizzly day. "Breakfast!" he said, half-scornfully, "You are always thinking of eating, Punch."
But let my lord be comforted; this parting is not for long, and before the flocks come down from Zagros to take shelter from the winter, we will be with thee." "Swear to me, then, that thou wilt return before the winter," insisted the prophet half-scornfully. "I cannot swear," answered Zoroaster. "Behold, I am in the hands of the Great King. I cannot swear."
You shall tell me all to-morrow;" and he turned away. "Why do you take her hand?" said Ayacanora, half-scornfully. "She is old, and ugly, and dirty." "She is an Englishwoman, child, and a martyr, poor thing; and I would nurse her as I would my own mother." "Why don't you make me an Englishwoman, and a martyr? I could learn how to do anything that that old hag could do!"
"No; it's like the desert; the dark hour before the sand-storm." Upon his brow the perspiration gathered, but his lip curled half-scornfully, half-defiantly. "Turn me toward the valley, Ernest. There's more space; more light!"
"But they say you are crazy," answered Madam Conway, somewhat surprised that Hagar should manifest so much affection for a child not at all connected to her. "They say you are crazy, and no one trusts a crazy woman." "Crazy!" repeated Hagar half-scornfully; "crazy 'tis not craziness 'tis the trouble the trouble that's killing me!
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