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But she could not speak, and Kirk went on in the same tone of half-tolerant contempt: "Who is he?" She controlled herself with an effort, and answered indifferently. "Oh, Basil? Well, you might say he's everything. He plays polo, leads cotillions, yachts, shoots, plays the piano wonderfully everything. People usually like him very much." She paused. "Women especially."
The pallid moon shone down pitilessly upon the dead, white face that stared up at me through its grime and blood, with the same half-tolerant, half-amused contempt of me that it had worn in life; the drawn lips seemed to mock me, and the clenched fists to defy me still; so that I shivered, and turned to watch the oncoming light that danced like a will-o'-the-wisp among the shadows.
The creature clasped both arms around a violin. He crouched there and stared up at Thorpe, who stared down at him. "What's the matter?" asked the latter finally. The creature made no reply, but drew his arms closer about his instrument, and blinked his wolf eyes. Moved by some strange, half-tolerant whim of compassion, Thorpe made a sign to the unknown to rise.
With respect to the things which Jacob was constraining himself to study antiquities, sculptures, paintings, stored in the Naples museum her attitude was one of jocose indifference or of half-tolerant contempt. Puritanism diluted with worldliness and a measure of common sense directed her views of art in general.
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