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Lady Tatham continued to look at her son. The eyebrows on her brow, as they slowly arched themselves, expressed the half-amused, half-startled inquiry she did not put into words. He flushed scarlet, still smiling, and suddenly he laid his hand on hers. "I say, mummie, don't tease me, and don't talk to me about it. There may be nothing in it nothing at all."
"He has not succeeded in life," she repeated softly. Looking down at her, his brow burning with a white heat, Lepage said: "He is a great man, Rose." "I am sure he is a good man," she added. Perhaps Lepage had borrowed some strength not all his own, for he said almost sternly: "He is a great man." His wife looked up half-startled and said: "Very well, dear; he is a good man and a great man."
"Shall I?" He turned gently her face up to his own. "Shall I? Dare I?" She opened her eyes wide those glorious, trusting eyes. "But why should you be afraid to tell me?" He laughed again softly, and kissed her lips. "I will make a rough sketch in the morning and show it you. It won't be a study only an idea. You are going to pose for the study." "I?" she said, half-startled. "You yes, you!"
Captain Verenski's Oriental features had a half-startled, half-puzzled look. "I don't get it. You grabbed that mike control as if you'd been bitten. I know that she's only a derelict. After that burst of fifty-gee acceleration for fifteen minutes, there couldn't be anyone left alive on her. But there must have been a reason for using atomic rockets instead of their antiacceleration fields.
"But, my dear Meister!" exclaimed the burgomaster's wife with increasing impatience, "I'm not asking about your motets and tabulatures, but my husband." Wilhelm gazed at the young wife's face with a half-startled, half-astonished look.
As for our little Madelon, the small, round, pinafored child was hardly recognisable in this slim little girl, in white frock, with brown hair that hung in short wayward tangling waves, instead of curling in soft ringlets all over her head; and yet Graham, who rarely forgot a face, was haunted by a vague remembrance of her eyes, with the peculiar look, half-startled, half-confiding, with which they met the first glance of strangers.
Suzanne, her mirth half-startled out of her but yet asserting its existence in dimples round her mouth, went on her errand. I leaned against the lowest baluster and waited. Suddenly the door of the duchess' room was flung open and she came out. She stood for an instant on the threshold. She turned toward the interior of the room and she stamped her foot on the parqueted floor.
With a mingled pain, and contempt, and surprise, and a half-startled apprehension that others might have thought the same thing, and that all kinds of disagreeable consequences might flow from such misapprehension, he perceived what she was thinking of, and said, so suddenly and sharply that even Fanny started, "You think I want to marry Hope Wayne?" "Of course I do. So does every body else.
He helped her down into an easy-chair, and would have left her; but she clung to him still, weakly but persistently. "Oh, Nick, don't laugh! Tell me the truth for once! Please, Nick, please!" He yielded to her so abruptly that she was half-startled, dropping suddenly down upon his knees beside her, the morning light full upon his face. "I am telling you the truth," he said.
"My experience has not been one to promote blind confidence in her word. We shall see." Jolyon got up. "Good-bye," he said curtly. "Good-bye," returned Soames; and Jolyon went out trying to understand the look, half-startled, half-menacing, on his cousin's face.
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