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"Do that," he said, "and were you a thousand times more like the King than you are, you shall be the first to command our service and honour!" Loud acclamation followed his words, and all the men gathered close up about Leroy. He looked round upon them, half-smiling, half-serious. "But you must tell me what to do!" he said.
He looked down at her with an expression half-quizzical, half-serious. "This is about the time we come to the 'great divide," he said. "Your trail lies to the palaces of the Old World; mine to dig holes in remote corners of the New. You'll write me, won't you?
"Well, the strain of dress-fitting is tremendous. I'm nearly always hungry ravenous for nourishment." "You mean you're out of candy, I suppose?" "Practically. There's hardly a whole piece left. They've all been nibbled." Blake did not know whether to feel amused or ashamed. He was relieved at the girl's apparent carelessness, yet this half-serious engagement had put Myra Nell in a new light.
The Captain was continually uttering half-serious threats as to the different kinds of sudden death he was going to inflict on the whole useless, bandylegged, snipe-nosed, waggle-eared The best comment was offered last year by the chauffeur of the automobile.
His mode of dressing, and the particular styles that he affected from time to time, had their marked influence on the young exquisites of the Mayfair balls and Pall Mall club windows, who copied him in everything that he did, and tried to reproduce the accidental charm of his graceful, though to him only half-serious, fopperies.
So the firmament was occupied by rather wandering stars: some of them elders already noticed, others born in the ten or twelve years between Keats and the eldest of the Tennysons . The chief of these were the pair of half-serious, half-humorous singers, Hood and Praed.
Yet, while such expressions were natural, if not unavoidable, they generally were used by those familiar with the facts in a half-serious, half-metaphorical sense. Thanks to Mr. Darwin's investigations, they may now be used in simplicity and seriousness.
But though there is a good deal of remark throughout the work in a half-serious, half-comic style upon dress, it seems to be in reality a treatise upon the great science of Things in General, which Teufelsdrockh, is supposed to have professed at the university of Nobody-knows-where.
No, poor Fan, you can't hope to be anything as grand as a governess." Fan laughed a little: she had grown accustomed to and understood this half-serious mocking style of speech in which her mistress often indulged. "But," she continued, "you might qualify yourself for some other kind of employment less magnificent, but still respectable, and even genteel enough.
'There's Jasmine, that's me; there 's Gentian, meaning the little gray-eyed girl in the corner; there's Rose, who always will be and can be nothing but Rose; there's Hollyhock; there's Delphinium. Delphinium is hard to say, but Delphy is quite easy. 'And I suppose you think, said their father in his half-humorous, half-serious voice, 'that you were really baptised by those names?
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