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He had wanted to understand it; he had felt a human interest in the men, but this was forbidden to him.... Whatever he felt, whatever he thought, whatever dread he might have of the future as it impended over himself he must be loyal to his name. So when he spoke it was to say in a singularly unboyish voice: "My father has spoken for me, Mr. Lightener." For the first time Lightener smiled.
They knew her by sight, and joked her every evening when she arrived. At first that was a long while ago she had resented their remarks, still more their shrewd unboyish questions, and had answered them with angry bitterness. But well, that was a long while ago.
He looked at her and went away, and was hidden by the rock. It seemed to her that a curious expression, that was unboyish and sharp with meaning, had dawned and died in his eyes. Slowly she ate a little food, and she sipped the lemon and water. Ibrahim did not return, nor did she hear his voice or the voice of Hamza.
He ran a good part of the way home and burst into the house with a slam, utterly unlike his usual quiet, unboyish steadiness. He was dashing past the library door on his way upstairs to his mother, when he caught a glimpse of her sitting near the library table with Mr. Dennis. He forgot to be astonished at her unwonted presence there. He ran into the room. "Mama!" he cried. "Mama!
Bhaer did not like his way of illustrating that Yankee word, and thought his unboyish keenness and money-loving as much of an affliction as Dolly's stutter, or Dick's hump. Ned Barker was like a thousand other boys of fourteen, all legs, blunder, and bluster.
Charmed by his sudden interest in the most unboyish topics, she had carried him off to see her doll's house, and, in spite of Colin's grumbling dissuasion, the base friend had gone meekly.
"You're not afraid to stake all you've got on a bad card?" pursued Saltash, still curiously watching him. "No, sir," he said again; and added with his faint, unboyish smile, "I haven't much to lose anyway." Saltash's hand tightened upon him. He was smiling also, but the gleam in his eyes had turned to leaping, fitful flame. "Well," he said slowly, "I have never yet refused a gift from the gods."
He had always been liberally furnished with pocket-money, for which, in his companionless state and Spartan habits, he had a singular and unboyish contempt. Nevertheless, he always appeared dressed with scrupulous neatness, and was rather distinguished-looking in his older reserve and melancholy self-reliance.
His own words to John were, 'I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive forevermore. What else can it mean but that he is living now, and will never die again?" Tony made no answer. He sat with his sharp, unboyish face gazing intently into the fire; for by this time autumn had set in, and the old man was chilly of an evening.
But the ordinary bright boy of nine is acute and observing, and this boy of Rachael's, with his extraordinary intuitions, his unboyish brain, his sympathetic and profound affection for his mother, felt with her and criticised his father severely.
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