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The flurry of broken, scattered phrases, half-tearfully, half-smilingly welcoming her back, had spent themselves, and now old Virginie, drawing away, regarded her with bewildered, almost frightened eyes. "Mais, mon dieu!" she muttered. "Mon dieu!" Then with a sudden cry: "Cherie! Cherie! What have they done to thee? What have they done?" "Done to me?" repeated Magda in puzzled tones. "Oh, I see!
Hamilton turned half-smilingly, half-inquiringly, to his chief. Washington returned his glance kindly but gravely, and then said quietly,
The remainder of March passed quickly away, with more alternations of mood than there were days; but in spite of snow, sleet, wind, and rain, the most forbidding frowns and tempestuous tears, all knew that Nature had yielded, and more often she half-smilingly acknowledged the truth herself. All sights and sounds about the farmhouse betokened increasing activity.
She unconsciously wished that Merwyn would come, and half-smilingly wondered whether he would brave the storm to see her. She was not kept long in suspense, for he soon appeared with a book which he wished to return, he said. "Papa is out," Marian began, affably, "and you will have to be content with seeing me. You have a morbidly acute conscience, Mr.
"A sensible plan!" repeated the enthusiastic Fred, "it is the only plan; nothing else can make it sure that he is not being swindled out of a big fortune." Jack was silent a moment, while he looked steadily into the brown eyes of his chum, who half-smilingly met the scrutiny. Then the whole scheme burst forth. "And whom can your father trust before us?
"Yes, sir," I said; "but he had quite an accident on deck," and I looked half-smilingly in the young doctor's face, for it was he. "Accident? Hurt?" he said, eagerly. "Oh no, sir. He was going up to speak to Miss Denning and her brother, and the ship lurched, and he came down sitting." "Oh!" said the doctor, and it struck me at the time that he looked rather pleased.
The latter looked back at him half-smilingly, took out a handkerchief and wiped his face, and glanced across at another sun-burned individual, to wit, a young man something like him in face, who was driving away flies from the sugar-basin, at which interference with their sweet pleasure they buzzed angrily, and the moment a spoonful of sugar had been taken out settled back.
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