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Updated: June 11, 2025
I ran up the garden quickly for fear Mr Solomon should come down and see Ike, and as I went I made up my mind that I would get the key of the gate into the lane and come down after dark and smuggle him out without anyone knowing. "Well, butterfly boy," said Mrs Solomon, smiling in her half-serious way, "we've been waiting tea these ten minutes."
Scarborough was already standing, watching her with an expression of great cheerfulness. "Good-by," he now said. "The caravan" his tone was half-jesting, half-serious "has been spending the heat and dust of the day on the oasis. It makes night journeys only. It must push on." "Night journeys only," repeated Pauline. "That sounds gloomy." "But there are the stars and the moon." She laughed.
"Oh, she's only half-serious, and Marchmont's in deadly earnest under that deuced languid manner of his. I tell you what, he's a very limited fellow, after all." May laughed; the limits were being turned to a new use now. "Awfully clever and well-read, but shut up inside a sort of compartment of life. Don't you know what I mean?
That is the mind of Mozart which people have called frivolous, just because in his heaven there is room for everything except the vulgar glory of Solomon and cruelty and stupidity and ugliness. There never was anything in art more profound or beautiful than Sarostro's initiation music, but it is not, like the solemnities of the half-serious, incongruous with the twitterings of Papageno.
The resemblance between the marble Faun and their living companion had made a deep, half-serious, half-mirthful impression on these three friends, and had taken them into a certain airy region, lifting up, as it is so pleasant to feel them lifted, their heavy earthly feet from the actual soil of life.
From them he selected that on which he should comment or with which he should play, always with a sardonic, half-serious, quite wearied and indifferent manner. His inner knowledge, viewed by the light of this manner or mannerism, was sometimes uncanny, though perhaps the sources of his information were commonplace enough, after all. Certainly he always viewed with amusement his victim's wonder.
There are so many lies going about that I almost feel myself to be famous. 'You did not see her after the journey? 'Yes, I did. I saw her act at Sydney; and very well she acted. Have you anything else to ask? Robert Bolton said that he had nothing else to ask, and seemed, at the moment, to turn his half-serious mood into one that was altogether jocular.
Ratcliffe seemed amused at Gore's half-serious notions. "You recall to me," said he, "my own feelings when I was a boy and was made by my father to learn the Farewell Address by heart. In those days General Washington was a sort of American Jehovah. But the West is a poor school for Reverence.
The passions and manners of mankind, have all a different expression, which cannot be presented too plain, and too obvious. The adjustment of the motions to the character must be observed through every stile of dancing, the serious, the half-serious, the comic, and the grotesque. The various beauties of these different kinds of dances, all center in the propriety or truth of nature.
And she teased him for a while, very gently, even tenderly; and their voices grew lower in a half-serious badinage that ended with a quiet, indrawn breath, a sigh, and silence. And now the river swept into view, a darkly luminous sheet set with reflected stars.
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