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He was standing with his back to the mantel-piece, his arms crossed behind his head; there was a curious expression on his face, half-smile, half-sneer, but it was evident that he was merely looking and listening, not interfering with what was going on. It needed only a glance to see that little Julian was in a state of extraordinary excitement.
"I was talking, for the moment, as an outsider," replied Phin Drayne, flushing. "Change around then, Mr. Drayne, and consider yourself, like every other student of this school, as an insider wherever the Gridley interests are involved." Drayne moved away, a half-sneer on his face. "I don't like that young man," muttered Mr. Morton confidentially to the young captain of the team.
Higher it goes, the wuss it'll mash anybody what happens to stan' percisely under it." "When will it reach the top?" The Superior Being turned his eyes full upon the student, who blushed a little under the half-sneer of his look. "Yaou tell! Thunder, stranger, that's jest what everybody'd pay money tew find out.
A faint ray of illumination stole into the mental blackness of Hamilton. Under its influence, he addressed Morton with a half-sneer: "Do you think any man would have the nerve to try bluffing on a thing like that?" In his thoughts there was a forceful emphasis on the word "man," but he carefully avoided letting it appear in the spoken word.
As he neared his hotel, he thought of his morning visit to Goldsmith's tomb, and ten-fold he repented the little half-sneer with which he had bought the flowers. In a boyish impulse, he rang the Temple bell, and found his way again to the lonely corner. His flowers were lying there in the moonlight, and again he read: "Here lies Oliver Goldsmith." "Forgive me, Goldy," he murmured.
"All right," said Todd, swallowing the bait with forlorn eagerness; "I'll have the board set out if you must come in." "Oh, I must!" said Cotton, with a half-sneer at Todd's anxiety to pick up a small sum. "Clear the table, and we'll make a snug evening of it." Todd's method of clearing a table was novel, if not original.
Barnum immediately looked up the superintendent and told him that they must have an extra train for Rugby, without an instant's delay. "Extra train?" said he, with surprise and a half-sneer, "extra train? why you can't have an extra train to Rugby for less than sixty pounds." "Is that all? well, get up your train immediately, and here are your sixty pounds.
You've ben confined t' the haouse fer some time, I guess, p'r'aps?" It was the voice of Whisky Jim that thus greeted Albert. If there was a half-sneer in the words, there was nothing but cordial friendliness in the tone and the grasp of the hand.
If we lose the recollection of it, and content ourselves by slurring it over in the last pages of his biography with some half-sneer about his putting, like the rest of Elizabeth's old admirals, 'the Spaniard, the Pope, and the Devil' in the same category, then we shall understand very little about Raleigh; though, of course, we shall save ourselves the trouble of pronouncing as to whether the Spaniard and the Pope were really in the same category as the devil; or, indeed, which might be equally puzzling to a good many historians of the last century and a half, whether there be any devil at all.
"One of your irreproachables, Armstrong," said one of the staff, with something half-sneer, half-taunt as he too read and then passed the paper to the judge-advocate of the division. Armstrong turned with his usual deliberation. There was ever about him a quiet dignity of manner that was the delight of his friends and despair of his foes. "What is his name?" he calmly asked.
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