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Poor Nina! she had always been so wilful so easily pleased, so easily offended but of late he had rather forgotten that, for she had been bearing herself with what she regarded as an English manner; and indeed their friendship had been so constant and unvarying, so kind and considerate on both sides, that there had been no opportunity for the half-vexed, half-laughing quarrels of earlier days.
My method was stupid: I blundered, and as you have several times so gently hinted, I am in your power." For a moment Madame de la Fontaine was silent, then she looked quickly up; a half-vexed, half-amused expression curling her pretty lips. "Look at me, monsieur," she said. "Do you know what you tell me? That I am an adventuress?" Dan flushed suddenly as he met her steadfast gaze.
For, instead of an opera-score, he found a prayer- book! "I hope your majesty will excuse me," stammered the empress. "In absence of mind, I brought my prayer-book instead of the score." "And your majesty was praying for us," replied Leopold, half-vexed, half-amused.
Wouldn't be much matter if 'twasn't never found again," he retorted, half-facetiously, and half-vexed that, as she hinted, there were still confidences withheld from him. Susanna ignored his playfulness, and went on as if he had not interrupted: "I'm goin' to make jumbles, an' little frosted cakes, an' teeny-tiny riz biscuit, an' raisin-loaf. I've got a ham on b'ilin', an' my suz!
I was computing how many million belles such as I know, and how many ages, would be required to condense them into a woman like yourself." Annie shut the book with a slam, and with an abrupt, half-vexed "good- by," left the room. For a brief time Gregory lay repenting of his disastrous levity, and then slept.
We none of us believe it was right to cut off King Charles's head; but when it was very evident that James wished to make himself a despot, and to introduce the Romish faith again, we all think it was quite right that he should have been dismissed from the country." "Oh, you are a dreadful Roundhead!" answered Alethea, in a half-vexed tone, though she laughed at the same time.
But far from this being the case, she displayed such cheerfulness and equanimity of humor that my grandmother, for one, was half-vexed with her for giving no more thought to the poor young man who, all this time, was eating his heart out in the house across the valley.
And when, through thoughtlessness or forgetfulness, as was not unfrequently the case, he happened to find himself in some awkward scrape or perplexity, he would toss back his waving hair with a half-vexed half-comical expression, which would disarm at once his mother's anger, spite of herself, and turn her severe rebuke into a mild remonstrance.
You see we have so many relations to whom letters must be written, and M. de Briseville leaves all correspondence to me, as his time is taken up with the religious history of Normandy that he is writing in collaboration with the Abbé Pelle." The baroness could not help smiling, but she repeated, in a half-vexed, half-amused tone: "It isn't right to laugh at people of our own rank like that."
There was obvious distaste on her face. "I wish you would try to be a little brighter for Father's sake," she said. "I don't think you treat him very kindly." It was evident that she spoke from a sense of duty. Mrs. Lorimer straightened herself with another weary sigh. "Run along, my dear!" she said. "I am sure you are busy." Olive turned, half-vexed and half-relieved, and walked to the door.
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