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"You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb," she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. "Wish I was!" "That's a foolish wish, unless you have spoiled your life. You are so changed, I sometimes think " there Amy stopped, with a half-timid, half-wistful look, more significant than her unfinished speech.
I know you've got a good many things now, but you had ought to have a new cape come fall; you can't come out bride in a muslin one when snow flies." Sarah cast a half-timid, half-shrewd glance at Charlotte, who put the dollar in her pocket. "A green satin cape, lined and wadded, would be handsome," pursued her mother. "I sha'n't ever come out bride," said Charlotte. "How you talk.
Life is never, never quite as we would have it. We must take our pleasures one by one as they are offered to us; it is hopeless to think we can gain them all together. Oh, Victor dearest!" she added, stretching out two rounded, glowing arms in a sort of half-timid desperation and clasping them round my neck, while mine still held her heaving waist, "love now, and win your name by-and-by."
"It wouldn't be right, monsieur," said Flore, "to live on sixty francs a month under the nose of an uncle who has forty thousand francs a year, and who has already behaved so kindly to Captain Gilet, his natural relation, here present " "Yes, Philippe," cried the old man, "you must see that!" On Flore's presentation, Philippe made a half-timid bow to Max.
But how shall we manage? We cannot say First, Second, and Third Margaret, as they do on the stage." "I am never called anything but Peggy," said the second girl, still in a half-sullen, half-timid tone. And "My home name is Rita," murmured the third reluctantly; and she added something in an undertone about "short acquaintance," which the first Margaret did not choose to hear.
'Karamzin. 'What, are you taking up Russian literature?... She suddenly cut me short. 'Tell me, haven't you come from Andrei? That name, that trembling, questioning voice, the half-joyful, half-timid expression of her face, all these unmistakable signs of persistent love, pierced to my heart like arrows.
The colonel was aware of the odor of myrrh which always accompanied Charteris and felt that the little man was trembling. "Isn't there anything you want to tell me, Jack?" the colonel said. He sat quite still. There was the tiniest pause. The caressing finger-tips lifted from Musgrave's head, but presently gave it one more brief and half-timid touch. "Why, only au revoir, I believe.
His half-timid inquiries only resulted in the information that Maruja was closeted with her mother. The penetralia of the casa was only accessible to the family; yet, as he wandered uneasily about, he could not help passing once or twice before the quaint low archway, with its grated door, that opened from the central hall.
"Tell me," she began after a moment, in a hesitating voice, casting a half-timid glance at her father's face; "dost think one ever speaks words from anger that well, that in calmer moments he would give a world to unsay?" "What brought such question to thy mind, daughter?" enquired the other with a smile of surprise.
He stopped and approached nearer his wife in a half-timid, half-tentative affection. "As to my forgetfulness of the past, Joan, even if it were true, I have had little cause to forget it lately. Your friend, Corwin "
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