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It was far from his heart, he said, to take so much advantage of the streight, which the discovery of my brother's foolish project had brought me into, as to renew, without my permission, a proposal which I had hitherto discountenanced, and which for that reason And then he came with his half-sentences, apologizing for what he had not so much as half-proposed.
Sandra smiled at him. And, as he went to the window and had nothing to say she added, in broken half-sentences: "Well, but how lovely wouldn't it be? The Acropolis, Evan or are you too tired?" At that Evan looked at them, or, since Jacob was staring ahead of him, at his wife, surlily, sullenly, yet with a kind of distress not that she would pity him.
She knew, too, that the deep music in her ears was the sound of his voice which came in short, stabbing, half-sentences. "Ethel! Ethel! Little girl you are mine, mine, mine! You do love me! Darling, better than life itself, I love you. I have always loved you! Tell me, dear, it was all a lie about St. Ledger. Tell me you love me, dearest!"
Her chin and jaw had the clear sharpness of Ishmael's; she was far more like him both in character and aspect than the sweet round Ruth, and Ishmael had grown to feel more and more that no matter how long a time elapsed between the occasions when he and Lissa saw each other, yet they could always pick up where they had left off, that there was never need for more than half-sentences between them.
"A sylphide!" repeated Gedeonovsky, raising his eyes towards heaven. The dinner hour arrived. Marfa Timofyevna came down from up-stairs, when the soup was already on the table. She treated Varvara Pavlovna very drily, replied in half-sentences to her civilities, and did not look at her.
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