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Taine looked at him with a curious, half-doubtful half-wistful expression; as though she glimpsed a hint of a meaning that did not appear upon the surface of his words. "You do say such such twisty things," she murmured. "I don't think I always understand what you mean; but when you look at me that way, I feel as though my maid had neglected to finish hooking me up."
She felt hurt, and even a trifle irritated against Walter; and though she understood, and in a measure sympathised with his feelings, she thought him needlessly morbid and sensitive regarding their new relation towards each other. 'Gladys, said Clara one day, when she had watched in silence the girl's sweet face, and noticed its half-sad, half-wistful expression, 'what is the matter with you?
And then what do you think happened?" Alwyn met his bright, satirical glance with a look that was half- questioning, half-wistful, but said nothing. "It was the most laughable, and at the same time the most beautifully instructive, lesson ever taught by the whole annals of journalism!
A curious, half-wistful, half-pathetic expression crept into her eyes as the realization came to her sharply that she was fading. There were lines and shadows and pallor that ought not to be in the face of a woman of thirty-five.
She did not now turn to her husband with that pretty look, half-smiling, half-wistful, to know how she had got through her domestic duties. There was a slight air of hurry and embarrassment about her eyes. The season had not begun, and she could not have been overdone by her social duties; but something had aged and changed her.
Hugh paused, looking upon her with a half-wistful smile. She made no answer; so presently he continued. "I have planned that, each day, Mistress Deborah, with the baggage and a good escort, shall go by the most direct route, and the best road. Thus thou and I will be free to ride as we will, visiting places we have known of old and which it may please thee to see again.
'Shall doubtless come, Shall doubtless come softly intoned the altos 'Bringing his she-e-eaves with him, the trebles flourished brightly, and then again began the half-wistful solo: 'They that sow in tears shall reap in joy Yes, it was effective and moving.
"You are not to do anything energetic to-day," he said. She threw him a smile, half-shy, half-wistful, and departed without replying. He turned back into the room and sat down. "I am not quite satisfied about Chris," he said. "Neither am I," said Aunt Philippa, with unexpected severity. He looked at her with awakened attention. "No?" he said courteously. "No."
Her surprising black brows and lashes, with the innocence of her blue eyes, and the half-wistful, half-daring expression she had, made her seem a combination of sophistication and childishness such as John had never seen before. "Shall I do you credit?" she asked him softly over her shoulder, as he held her wrap for her. Her heart beat hard as she said it.
His dark face wore its funny, monkeyish look of regret, half-wistful and half-feigned. "I wish " he said suddenly "I wish I'd come down here when you first began to rusticate." "Why?" said Juliet, with her level eyes upon him. He laughed and sprang abruptly to his feet. "Quien sabe? I might have turned rustic too pious also, my Juliette! Think of it! Life isn't fair to me.
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