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Updated: June 5, 2025
Besides, it was not for me to enlighten him, particularly as you didn't want him to know the real state of things just then. So I left him alone. The next day only the next day, mind you the silent knight opened his heart; to whom, do you think? You'll be horribly furious when I tell you." He looked into the hot eyes with an expression half-tender in his own. "Tell me!" breathed Dinah. "Really?
The tears she had kept back all that day asserted themselves as she flung open the library door and ran across the garden into the myrtle walk. "In hospital!" The words had been ringing in her ears though Sir James's complacent speech, through the oddly constrained luncheon, through the half-tender, half-masculine reasoning of her companion.
"I mean, do you think you ought ... that it is right to do what you are doing?" The smile, half-tender, half-quizzical that she loved, broke over her husband's face. He held out his hand. "Is my little wife troubled?" "Richard, I only mean..." "Polly, my dear, don't worry your little head over what you don't understand. And have confidence in me.
She rarely danced now, yet all the seductive arts of perfect dancing seemed hers by right of birth. Each movement, each gesture had a peculiar charm, and her dark blue eyes, the more provocative for their lack of passion, were full of a half-mocking, half-tender vivacity.
As his eye fell on the first, he smiled proudly. "From Voltaire," he murmured softly, breaking the seal, and hastily opening the enclosure, which contained two letters and several loose scraps of printed matter. The prince uttered a cry of joyful astonishment, and scarcely noticing the two letters, he gazed with a half-tender, half-curious expression on the printed papers he held in his hand.
A roseate future stretched away before him, its peaceful duties brightened by love, and the contrast between it and the stress and struggle of the past two years added to its charm. Still, to his astonishment, he thought of the sterner and more strenuous life he had led on the western plains with a faint, half-tender regret. By and by Edgar's laugh rang out.
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 "
"I don't know," I said; "I'm sure that this is somehow beautiful. Can't one feel that nature is half-tender, half-indifferent to our broken designs?" "Perhaps," said Father Payne, "but I don't like being reminded of death and waste I don't want to think that they can end by being charming the vanity of human wishes is more sad than picturesque. I think Dr.
You will understand why the little poem seems to me so fine, therefore. This water I also see; but not in me lies the power of the due expression of its influence. There was another pleasant aspect in Newport, of persons. The band in the shadow of the camp was playing very sweetly airs proper for that fading light, half-mournful, half-tender and hopeful.
Lorimer gave me in Paris." "He has been a very brave, but a very homesick little German," Thayer answered, while his eyes rested thoughtfully on her face. It brightened now, as she spoke of Lorimer, and a half-tender, half-amused smile was playing around her lips. All in all, Thayer was broad enough to like it better so.
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