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Each man's face wore a half-smile that is, all except the gambler's, who still appeared to be absorbed in his own thought and the bush opposite. But the interest of these men was less in the little man's story than in a speculation as to when he was going to break down, and yield his tutelary attitude before a battery of infantile questions. However, Scipio was still in a fairly strong position.
"You 've become mighty close-mouthed all at once," I sharply urged. He gave me a little half-smile, and glanced away. "By advice of counsel I refuse to talk," said he, quietly. "If you are the counsel, you have a fool for a client and vice versa," I retorted. "I suppose, too, that you refuse any assistance that I " Instantly his assumed indifference vanished.
The banker took the cigar from his mouth, flicked the ashes into the cuspidor, removed his leg from the table, and replied calmly, with a half-smile: "It looks to me as if it were all fixed up, now. Patricia has agreed to marry you all right; she told me in plain English that I could deliver the goods. You heard her, didn't you?
The girl stood looking at herself in the mirror, a curious half-smile twisting her lips. She seemed slighter and darker than ever. "In all this white, and my veil, I look just like a fly in a quart of milk," she said, with a laugh. Then, suddenly, she turned to her aunt who stood behind her and clung to her, holding her tight, tight. "I can't!" she gasped. "I can't! I can't!"
I shall spare no effort to that end, and I may say that, if possible, I am even more anxious about her than you." A half-smile came on the great man's face, as he nodded: "I understand, Ainley; I am not blind. It was for that reason I decided that you should have charge of the search-party, seeing that you have er extra inducements.
They passed, and, with a half-smile in her eyes, she said something to me that I couldn't catch; the door was shut, and the excited whispering began again below. I waited for the men to come out, and caught hold of Hopgood. He wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Poor young thing!" he said. "She fell down the cliffs 'tis her back coastguard saw her 'twerr they fetched her in.
The young and large freighter stood aloof, with a half-smile too, but he had evidently found the sensation disagreeably strong. This, it seemed certain, must be the lost Juan Lucio. The next day, which was Sunday, the ranchmen and a county officer proceeded toward the scene of the discovery. The shearers heard of the affair, and paused in the arrangement of a horse-race.
But he prudently conquered that impulse, and said, with a melancholy half-smile, "If human beings despise each other for being young and foolish, the sooner we are exterminated by that superior race which is to succeed us on earth the better it will be. Adieu, till your uncle comes." "What! you leave me here alone?"
Seated in a large, high-backed elbow chair made of carved ebony and cramoisie velvet, her elbow supported by one arm of this seat, her head a little bent down, she supported her cheek upon the back of her small white hand, delicately veined with azure. The languishing attitude of Fleur-de-Marie, her paleness, the fixedness of her gaze, the bitterness of her half-smile, revealed a deep melancholy.
He looked again at Betty, his heavy face wreathed in an insolent half-smile. She saw the look and instantly flushed and stiffened. But it appeared that Calumet noticed nothing of her agitation or of Taggart's insulting glance. He stood a little to one side of Taggart, and he spoke slowly and distinctly: "Taggart," he said; "meet my boss, Betty Clayton."
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