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In response to their questionings he detailed a semi-humorous account of his abduction, detention and escape. His three auditors listened with the deepest attention. As the recital progressed to the point wherein Bob described his midnight escape, Amy, unnoticed by the others, leaned back and closed her eyes.
The driver leaned over his engine, rubbing his hands with the usual oily rag. He was a short, wiry man with grey hair and a grizzled moustache, with about him that bearing of semi-humorous, frank-faced resolution which one notes about engine-drivers as a class. 'We ought to do it, the gradients are against us, but it's a clear night and there's no wind.
Instead of being at all annoyed or disconcerted at the mirth of his class-mates, the youngster seemed rather to enjoy the joke, and immediately rattled out a semi-humorous reply to the master's question, "D I G, dig; G O R Y, gory Diggory: T R E, tre; VAN, van; O C K, ock Trevanock."
Clarke. He chaffed Dion about Mrs. Clarke's telegram with a rather persistent gaiety which did not hide a faint, semi-humorous jealousy. One day he even said, "To him that hath shall be given. It's so like a woman to sent her word of encouragement to the man who's got a wife to encourage him, and to leave the poor beggar who's got no one out in the cold.
She's done very well, and is an instructor in biology in one of the western universities." I was silent a moment. "And you, you never married, did you?" I inquired, somewhat irrelevantly. His semi-humorous gesture seemed to deny that such a luxury was for him. The conversation dragged a little; I began to feel the curiosity he invariably inspired. What was his life? What were his beliefs?
"Are you in love with him?" asked Dr. Jim abruptly. She lifted her face with a great start. "No!" she gasped breathlessly. He looked at her with a semi-humorous frown. "Well, that's something definite to go upon anyhow. Can't stand him at any price, eh?" She smiled a little doubtfully. "I couldn't at one time. But now now " "Yes? Now?" said Dr. Jim.
And Eugene knew a good deal, he fancied. Besides, his talk was precisely in his own sarcastic, semi-humorous vein. Coming from Eugene it did not sound so hard as it would have coming from himself, but it had his own gay, bantering attitude of mind in it. He believed Eugene could make good. He wanted to try him, instanter, anyhow. "Well, I'll tell you what, Witla," he finally observed.
Nor, in the lighter portions, is there a trace of Mozart's divine intoxicating laughter, of the sweet sad laugh with which he met the griefs life brought him. There is none of Mozart's sunlight, his delicious, fresh, early morning sunlight, in Beethoven's music; when he wrote such a number as the first duet, intended to be gracefully semi-humorous, he was merely heavy, clumsy, dull.
Lane, and the semi-humorous journal of Strahan and Blauvelt, together with the general claims of society and her interest in her father's deep anxieties, were fast banishing it from her mind, when, to her surprise, his card was handed to her one stormy afternoon, late in January. "I am sorry to intrude upon you, Miss Vosburgh," he began, as she appeared, "but "
There was another pause. Louis and Rachel exchanged a glance of sympathetic dismay at the situation. Mrs. Maldon then smiled with plaintive courage. "Of course if you can't sleep here, you can't," said she benignly. "I can see that. But we were quite counting on having a man in the house to-night with all these burglars about weren't we, Rachel?" Her grimace became, by an effort, semi-humorous.
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