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Again her voice quivered upon a laugh. Her arms slackened from his shoulders, and instantly his fell away, setting her free. She rose to her feet, yet lingered a moment, bending slightly over him, her eyes very bright. But Jeff did not move, and with a half-sigh she turned away. "Would you like to carry the teapot?" she said. He got up. "And you can hang up this coat of yours," she added.
As I closed the door I heard her fling herself back into her chair with a curious little sound, half-cry, half-sigh. I left the house quickly and silently; no servant was summoned to escort me. I walked a few yards along the street to where Wetter lived. My carriage was ordered to come for me at Wetter's; it had not yet arrived.
Nan laid down the closely-written sheet with a half-smile, half-sigh could one ever regard Maryon Rooke without a smile overtaken by a sigh? The letter somewhat cheered her, washing away what remained of bitterness in her thoughts towards him. It was very characteristic of the man, with its intense egotism almost every sentence beginning with an "I" and its lightly cynical note.
And then the deep potential impulse came, and with a half-sob, half-sigh, she threw her arms out and drew the body of the sleeping child down, down, into her breast, down again and again as if she would hide it in the grave dug there years before. And the gust that shook her passed, and then, ah me! the rain. A drop or two fell upon the curls of Carry, and she moved uneasily in her sleep.
Percival threw himself on the ground with a half-sigh, and crossed his arms behind his head. "Is anything the matter?" asked Mackay. Percival noticed that he never addressed him as "Sir" or "Mr. Heron," unless the other men were present. "Jackson's ill," said Percival, curtly. Mackay started and turned on his elbow. "Ill?" "Fever, I'm afraid. Not bad; just a touch of it. He's in the other hut."
"O yes," answered Kitty, with a half-sigh, seating herself upon a fallen stone, and letting her hands fall into each other in her lap as her wont was, "you write them." A curious pensiveness passed from one to the other and possessed them both. Mr. Arbuton began to write.
With a little shiver of self-pity, a half-sigh and a tightening of the lips, she accepted her fate. That was her way. She regretted nothing, asked neither for mercy nor allowance. What she had done, she had done; if it was to be done with, she could not help that; she must go her way. Never for an instant did it enter her head that she could marry Ingram.
The Gordian one was cut; and this had been painted and effaced forever. Swan returned to his trunk with a half-sigh. He selected a suit of clothes which he had purchased in Boston, put aside his travelling-dress, and looked out of the window occasionally as he dressed. It was a warm, sunny day.
And I must confess that when I once or twice heard the half-sigh stifled, and saw the momentary relapse into thoughtfulness suddenly restrained, I felt an indefinable awkwardness in my position which made me ill at ease; which set me doubting whether, as a perfect stranger, I had done right in suffering myself to be introduced where no new faces could awaken either interest or curiosity; where no new sympathies could ever be felt, no new friendships ever be formed.
"There is a pleasure in this," said the stranger, unconsciously, and with a half-sigh; "I wish I had a home!" "And have you not a home?" said Lucy, with naivety. "As much as a bachelor can have, perhaps," answered Clifford, recovering without an effort his gayety and self-possession.
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