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Updated: June 26, 2025
Actors never worked the whole year round, he assured her. There was nothing doing in the summertime, ever. Martie remarked, with a half-sorry laugh, that a salary of one hundred dollars a week for ten weeks was less than eighty-five dollars a month, and the same salary, if drawn for only five weeks, came to something less than a living income. "Don't worry!" Wallace said.
"I must go now; thanks awfully for the lunch." Val smiled up at him half-sorry, and yet amused. The boy looked so upset. "All right! See you on Friday." "I don't know," murmured Jon. And he did not. This conspiracy of silence made him desperate. It was humiliating to be treated like a child! He retraced his moody steps to Stratton Street. But he would go to her Club now, and find out the worst!
I was half-sorry I said it, for the Lord deliver me always from a sarcastic woman. But I've a feeling that the name is going to stick, whether we want it or not. At any rate, Alabama Ranch has rather a musical turn to it.... I wonder if there are any really perfect children in the world?
It was with this kiss burning upon his lips that Percival leaned out of the window of the railway-carriage as the train steamed away into the darkness, and waved a last farewell to the woman he loved. He had been rather imperious and masterful during the last few days; he felt conscious of it now, and was half-sorry for it.
He spoke with a simplicity that was touching, looking at me at the same time with something strange and timid in his eye, half-ashamed, half-sorry, like a good child who knows he should be beaten. You would have said he recognised a destiny to which he was born, and accepted the consequences mildly.
The officers always had a friendly nod for him, and on one occasion the colonel spoke to him after a solo, praising him highly. "But, do you know, Smithson," he said, "I am half-sorry that you are not in the ranks. Music is a delightful thing; but for a young man, like you, a bandsman in a line regiment is only a bandsman, after all.
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