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Her lips trembled with a half-smile in response, but she looked more frightened than ever. "Now, Mrs. Maxwell," said the lawyer, "you and your niece must positively remain and dine with us to-day, can't you?" "I'm afraid it will put your sister out." "Oh, no, indeed." The lawyer, however, had a slightly nonplussed expression. "She will be delighted.
Also, I find that whenever the elder of the two women lifts her eyes from her work, and half smiles, the faint half-smile in question vexes me intensely. Consequently, I end by departing in Konev's wake.
The curate rose and took his departure, but the light of the gaze that had rested upon him lingered yet on the countenance of Rachel, and a sad half-smile hung over the motions of the baby-like fingers that knitted so busily. The draper followed the curate, and Polwarth went up to his own room: he never could keep off his knees for long together.
Lord Wandle a battered, coarsened, but still magnificent-looking man of sixty examined the speaker an instant from half-shut eyes, then put up his hand to his moustache with a half-smile. "You like the country?" "Yes." As she spoke her reluctant monosyllable, the girl had really no conception of the degree of hostility expressed in her manner.
There were the same heavy black brows, sinister and gloomy, the same hooked nose, the same swarthy cheeks. He even remembered the deep dent in the forehead, where the brows met in perpetual frown. So it was that upon that face his looks centred and rested. The Earl of Alban had just been speaking to some Lord who stood beside him, and a half-smile still hung about the corners of his lips.
"I find you are not very popular hereabouts, indeed, sir," replied the baronet, with a half-smile, which was immediately reflected in the face of the groom. "With your leave, we will have our conversation to ourselves," said Hope. The baronet directed his groom to ride on slowly.
"My poor boy," he said, with a sympathetic half-smile, and in his old-time gravely gentle voice: "even in your tribulation you must be Dutch! Why not have said this to me or what then occurred to you of it at the outset, the first day after you came? Why, then it could all have been put right in a twinkling.
She turned as if in haste, almost, and seated herself in the chair, first turning it toward the windows so that her back would be toward the interior of the room, and then, to my surprise, she beckoned me, with a half-smile, to a place upon the window-seat, which would narrowly serve this purpose.
The man began to look genuinely compassionate; the half-smile faded from his lips. "I understand," he said. "And I thought if I moved you would wake and see me, and you were awake all the time. You knew all the time, and you waited for me to stand there and feel as I did. I never dreamed a man could be so cruel." "I beg your pardon with all my heart," began Hyacinthus Ware. But the girl was gone.
Alice was gone; but the departing spirit had left a ray of brightness on its earthly house; there was a half-smile on the sweet face, of most entire peace and satisfaction. Her brother looked for a moment closed the eyes kissed once and again the sweet lips and left the room. Ellen saw him no more that night, nor knew how he passed it.
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