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That worthy young man had served his purpose, and could never again be a factor in Dic's life or courtship. Mrs. Bays received Dic coldly; but Mr. Bays, in a half-timid manner, was very cordial. Dic paid no heed to the coldness, and, after talking on the porch with the family for a few minutes, boldly asked Rita to walk across the yard to the log by the river.
The king, with a fierce curse, pushed open the glass door leading to the balcony, and walked out. Catharine gazed after him with a strange, half-timid, half-scornful look. "I have not at least told him that I love him," muttered she. "He has construed my words as it suited his vanity. No matter. I will not die on the scaffold!"
These, displayed at first only in the energy and eagerness of their every movement within the narrow limits of conventional usage, broke all bounds when, after one or two half-timid, half-venturous experiments on my patience, they felt that they had, at least for the moment, exchanged the monotony, the mechanical routine, the stern repression of their life in the great Nurseries, not for the harsh household discipline to which they naturally looked forward, but for the "loosened zone" which to them seemed to promise absolute liberty.
Randolph, and then flashed a half-timid glance at Hall, as she answered, "He said that unless I promised to give up Mr. Hall, he would go last night to Mr. Randolph's and have a new will drawn up." "Did he do so?" exclaimed Gregory Hall, an expression almost of fear appearing on his commonplace face. Miss Lloyd looked at him, and seemed startled. Apparently his sudden question had surprised her.
Domini had had an inner cabin, with a skylight opening on to the lower deck, and heard above the sound of the waves and winds their groans and exclamations, rough laughter, and half-timid, half-defiant conversations as she shook in her berth.
There he left her, with a nice old motherly person, and bade her good-by with no expectation of ever beholding her again, despite the murmured thanks she gave him and the half-timid offer of her hand. When he left and dismissed the cabman he was face to face with the problem of what he should do to find his "wife." His worry all surged back upon him.
My feeling for your cousin, though pure and tender, was as nothing compared to what I have for you. Even when I was most under the spell of her beauty and sweetness, I thought of you as one who might well stir the pulse and thrill the heart of any man not made armor-proof by love for another." "But you did love Cousin Abby?" she questioned with another wistful, half-timid look.
She drew her hand from behind her back, and held it out with a half-pettish, half-timid gesture. "There!" she said; "if you must see it." And there, on her pink palm, lay a shining opal ring. "And," said Aimée, looking at it without offering to touch it, and then looking at her, "and Mr. Gerald Chandos gave it to you?" "Yes, Mr.
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