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'Because they don't, said her father, with a half-serious quaintness that vexed her, and forced her to turn away to let the tear drop. Clement said, in his calm voice, 'How can you be all so repining and foolish! And Mr. Underwood, almost in lazy mischief, pursued his experiment. 'Eh, Felix, you are the party most concerned what say you?
At last the final parting was spoken, the final shake of the hand given, and with a gay laugh, in response to the half-serious, half-jocose warnings to take care of himself which followed him, he sprang lightly down the side, took his seat in the stern-sheets, and gave the order to shove off.
In the half-serious stile we observe vigor, lightness, agility, brilliant springs, with a steadiness and command of the body. It is the best kind of dancing for expressing the more general theatrical subjects. It also pleases more generally.
Detecting the mysterious note in his voice, she added with mischievous, half-serious intent: "I should want to scratch you, and bite you, and push you into the first available ditch, for a poor coward, who was afraid to take care of the interests of woman, in case she got too well able in the end to take care of herself so there."
He was tall and powerful; but beyond that I saw nothing, except his laughing eyes as they met mine when my dagger touched his breast." "It is not every day one meets a man who can laugh with a dagger at his breast," exclaimed Marie, half-jestingly, half-serious. "I must indeed see him. I shall know no peace until I do."
She gracefully raised her head, seemed to find new life in the young man's gaze, and held out her hand as if to renew the alliance. "You thought I cared very much for dignities?" said she with keen archness. "I have no titles to offer my wife," he replied, in a half-sportive, half-serious tone.
I don't doubt it, Lady Ruth, but please Heaven you will never have the chance," he says, in a half-serious, half-joking way. "To return to my story, then," she continues, blushing under the ardent look that has accompanied his words, "the queer part of it lies in the fact that a transom over my door was partly open.
His lips parted in a strange, half-serious, half-speculative smile. The letter that was paramount now. What new venture did the night hold in store for him? What sudden emergency was the Gray Seal called upon to face this time what role, unrehearsed, without warning, must he play? What story of grim, desperate rascality would the papers credit him with when daylight came?
We are reminded of his half-serious complaints to Atticus of his importunate visitors at Formiae, the dinner-parties which he was, as we say now, "obliged to go to", and which he so evidently enjoyed. 'Sir', said Mr. Salusbury, 'Mr. Johnson would learn to talk of runts; meaning that I was a man who would make the most of my situation, whatever it was". Boswell's Life. Cicero was like Dr.
But not the less on account of his apathy, or rather quiescence, was it thought that Gatherum Castle was a fitting place in which politicians might express to each other their present hopes and future aims, and concoct together little plots in a half-serious and half-mocking way. Indeed it was hinted that Mr.
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