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Then he chafed the small bare feet and warmed them in his own warm breast; and gathering handfuls of pungent mint and the sweet-scented henna, he crushed them and held them to the boy's nostrils. And these devices failing, he sat disconsolate, the curves of his mobile face falling into unwonted lines of half-weary, half-sorrowful dejection.
Then putting her hand over his mouth, she continued with the same half-weary expression: "Don't let us go over all that again either. It is SO tiresome. Listen, dear. You'll do one or two little things for me won't you, dandy boy? Don't linger long at the school-house after lessons. Go right home!
He seemed to take a pleasure in disappointing those who were always expecting from him some savage outbreak of temper: they judged from his appearance, and had some grounds for their anticipations; for, winning or losing, that strange look, half-weary, half-defiant, never was off his face.
"He warned me that this might happen if I went on singing, but what could I do? I couldn't cancel my engagements without telling people why. He said I must go to Norway and give my throat and chest a rest." They looked at one another, and there was in their eyes the half-bitter, half-weary smile of those to whom the cure prescribed is ludicrously impossible. It was Winifred who spoke first.
"Oh, I'm sorry I'm sorry! . . . I I never thought of that when I asked you to be a pal to her." Her voice shook uncontrollably. He smiled again the game half-weary, half-tenderly amused smile which was so characteristic. "You needn't be sorry," he said, speaking with great gentleness. "I shall never be sorry that I love her. It's only that just now she doesn't need me.
"And what are your own plans, Sue?" he presently asked, unsmilingly. Susan was chilled by the half-weary tone. "Well, I'm really just resting and helping Auntie, now," Susan said cheerfully. "But in the fall " she made a bold appeal to his interest, " in the fall I think I shall go to New York?" "New York?" he echoed, aroused. "What for?" "Oh, anything!" Susan answered confidently.
"The specialist warned me that this might happen if I went on singing, but what could I do? I couldn't cancel my engagements without telling people why. The physician said I must go to Norway and give my throat and chest a rest." They looked at each other, and there was in their eyes the half-bitter, half-weary smile of those to whom the cure prescribed is ludicrously impossible.
There was something wonderfully fascinating to me in that pale, suffering face, for, in spite of suffering, it was beautiful and loving; but dearer than all these things to my mind were the marks of passion it exhibited, the petulant, almost scornful mouth, and the half-eager, half-weary expression of the eyes, for these seemed rather to belong to that imperfect world from which I had been severed, and which was still dear to my unregenerate heart.
But as the color surged into Brant's cheek he raised his eyes to the ceiling, and said, in half-humorous recollection, "No, I think THAT fact was first gathered from your other friend Mr. Hooker." "Hooker!" said Brant, indignantly; "did he come here?" "Pray don't destroy my faith in Mr. Hooker, General," said the President, in half-weary, half-humorous deprecation.
She turned with a half-weary, half-petulant distaste from her former pursuits and pleasures, and abandoned her profession with a sort of terror, feeling that its mockery of sorrows, such as had fallen so crushingly on her unchastened heart, would madden her utterly.
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