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Updated: May 12, 2025
Yet, when the sound of a light footfall struck among the thousand whispering noises of wind and leaf that went to make up the silence of the ruins, the glory of joy that lit up eye and lip left no room for any other impression. Madeleine stood in the old doorway: a vision of beautiful life amid emblems of decay and death. "I come alone to-day," she said, with her half-shy smile.
Flip had withdrawn to the window, and was looking out upon the rocking pines. "He don't seem to be coming," said Lance, with a half-shy laugh. "No," responded Flip demurely, pressing her hot oval cheek against the wet panes; "I reckon I was mistaken.
It was this new strange bareness that Tom felt first, before he thought of looking again at the face which was also lit up by the fire, and which stole a half-shy, questioning glance at him as the entirely strange voice said: "Why! you don't remember Bob, then, as you gen the pocket-knife to, Mr. Tom?"
People had a fashion of "looking out for him." Not that he had grown up particularly incapable or helpless; it might rather have been due to a certain appealing gentleness of bearing, something that was the resultant of a half-shy manner, expanding into boyish confidence winningly; a shortish, slender figure, scarcely robust; eager, friendly brown eyes behind his glasses; and a keen desire to be liked.
Martie was listening with a half-smile to the children's eager chatter, and thinking vaguely that Clifford might ask her to-day, or might not ask her for three years, when a half-shy, half-husky aside from him, and a sudden exchange of glances ended the speculation once and for all. "Makes me feel a little bit out of it, seeing all the boys with their wives," he said, with a rueful laugh.
No blue or yellow backed pamphlet lay beside his plate; and when his last cup was empty, he still sat talking as if he forgot that he should have to go out in the rain. In the midst of a laugh which had prevented their hearing a premonitory knock, the door opened, and Mrs Grey's twin daughters entered, looking half-shy, half-eager.
Nina," he added, with a flush of half-shy satisfaction on his ruddy face, "it's it's almost like having a grown-up son coming bothering me with his affairs; ah rather agreeable than otherwise. There's certainly something in that boy. I perhaps I have been, at moments, a trifle impatient. But I did not mean to be. You know that, dear, don't you?"
He would have to wait for his own books to be uncrated before he could do more than apply symptomatic treatment. He sighed and rose slowly to his feet. Tomorrow was going to be a busy day. The door opened behind Mm and Copper slipped quietly into the office. She looked at him curiously, a faint half-shy smile on her face. "What is it?" Kennon asked.
"Yet, 'tis simple enough, m'dear," he said with that funny, half-shy, half-inane laugh of his, "you see! when I found that that brute Chauvelin meant to stick to me like a leech, I thought the best thing I could do, as I could not shake him off, was to take him along with me.
It was Sir Percy Blakeney, tall, sleepy, good-humoured, and wearing that half-shy, half-inane smile, which just now seemed to irritate her every nerve. "Er . . . your chair is outside . . . m'dear," he said, with his most exasperating drawl, "I suppose you will want to go to that demmed ball. . . . Excuse me er Monsieur Chauvelin I had not observed you. . . ."
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