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A half-tender, half-repellent expression came into the old man's face. He spoke bluntly. "I always thought you had three times the brains of your brother. You're not like me, and you're not like your mother; there's something in you that means vision, and seeing things, and doing them. If fifteen thousand dollars a year and a share in the business is any good to you "
A slow, half-tender smile lit her chestnut-tinted eyes, and tilted her lips at the corners. "Oh, you desert man o' mine, I see through you now!" she said under her breath, and kept on smiling afterwards, since there was not a soul near to guess her thoughts.
A look of triumph swept across her face, for with this boy, as chivalrous as ardent, she knew that words were not mere breath. Still, with her stern purpose uppermost, she changed the bitter smile into one half-timid, half-tender, as she bent still nearer, "Manuel, in a week I leave the island. Shall I go alone?" "No, Pauline." He understood her now.
She looked a little forlorn and solitary, as was natural, all by herself, so near that group of busy girls in the chancel so little separated from them by age, so entirely divided by circumstances. If a certain softening of half-tender pity shone in the curate's eye, could Lucy Wodehouse blame him?
But sculptured Venice and Verona had unfitted the travellers for pleasure in the stucco of Mantua; and they had an immense scorn for the large and beautiful palaces of which the before-quoted ambassador speaks, because they found them faced with cunningly-moulded plaster instead of carven stone. Nevertheless, they could not help a kind of half-tender respect for the old town.
You can preserve all this to give to your bride some day. It does not become old Sitta Khadra to adorn herself thus." "You are not old, Mother Khadra," said he, in half-tender, angry tones. "You are still young, and when you adorn yourself with these garments, there will be no handsomer woman in all Cavalla than Sitta Khadra.
"But now I want you to tell me will you tell me? all the objections you see. You must often have thought such things over." She was looking nervously straight before her. She did not see the flash of half-bitter, half-tender irony that crossed his face. Her tone of humility, of appeal, was so strange to him, remembering the past. "Yes, very often," he answered.
I believe even Dick was astonished." "Sylvia knows how to make herself irresistible," said Ethel, strolling away a few moments later, somewhat troubled in mind. She had cherished a half-tender regard for George, which, had it been reciprocated, might have changed to a deeper feeling. The man was steadfast, chivalrous, honest, and she saw in him latent capabilities which few others suspected.
How much of last night was just what shall I say nervous tension? Supposing some other girl had been in my place?" Impetuously he started to speak, but once again the words died away on his lips as he saw the half-tender, half-humorous look in her eyes. "Dear," she went on after a moment. "I don't want to hurt you. I know you think you're in love with me to-day; but will you to-morrow?
I can guess what arguments were used what threats, even. Were there threats?" burst from him in a fresh leap of anger. She raised her head slowly. "Threats would not have mattered," she said. "But your fears were played on your fears for my safety? Fulvia, answer me!" he insisted. She rose suddenly and laid her arms about his shoulders, with a gesture half-tender, half-maternal.
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