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"That is an overstatement," said Mr. Caryll. "Mistress Winthrop is no cast-off of mine." "Enough said!" snapped Rotherby. He had intended to say much, to do some mighty ranting. But before Mr. Caryll's cold half-bantering reduction of facts to their true values, he felt himself robbed of words. "You hang!" he ended shortly. "Ye're sure of that?" questioned Mr. Caryll.
"What do you mean?" she asked, adding in a half-bantering tone: "Is it haunted?" "Oh, Alice!" objected Ruth, shaking out her skirt so it would hang down a little longer, for the girls rode side-saddle. "No, Miss, it ain't exactly haunted," replied Baldy. "But it ain't a safe place to go least-ways, not all alone." "But why?" persisted Alice.
He made no attempt to kiss her, as he would have done before in a similar situation, but talked a while in that half-fond, half-bantering manner that had misled the inexperienced child. The sun poured its level rays upon them, and a little brown snake, with a litter of young, crawled from beneath the log.
I was about turning away to speak to the young man, when I was recalled by an exclamation from the landlord: "I guess," said he, in a half-bantering way, "you hain't told me your business yet?" "No," I answered deferentially, "I have not." "What on airth's takin' you to Holt's Clearin'?" "That, Mr Kipp I beg pardon Colonel Kipp is a private matter." "Private and particular, eh?" "Very."
Every daily paper panders more or less to the lowest tastes of the mob, while if the higher sentiments of man are not actually sneered at, they are made a subject for feeble surprise, or vapid 'gush. An act of heroic unselfishness meets with such a cackling chorus of amazed, half-bantering approval from the leading-article writers, that one is forced to accept the suggestion implied, namely that to BE heroic or unselfish is evidently an outbreak of noble instinct that is entirely unexpected and remarkable, nay, even eccentric and inexplicable!
"I'm none the less obliged," I said carelessly. "He assured me that he acted on your words." "What on earth are you doing for Mr. Knapp?" she asked earnestly, dropping her half-bantering tone. There was a trace of apprehension in her eyes. "I'm afraid Mr. Knapp wouldn't think your recommendations were quite justified if I should tell you. Just get him in a corner and ask him."
"That's why the missing carving-knife ought to be a clue," said Stone, "because its connection with the case is inexplicable. Now, where is that knife? Fibsy, where is it?" Fleming Stone's frequent appeals to the boy were often in a half-bantering tone, and yet, rather often, Terence returned an opinion or a bit of conjecture that turned Stone's cogitations in a fresh direction.
He could see Peter John strutting about and receiving the half-bantering congratulations of the students, and his heart became still heavier. "Never mind, Phelps, you didn't have any chance to train," said Hawley. "Mott and Ogden have been down on the track every evening for the past three weeks." "They have?" demanded Will, a ray of light appearing for the moment. "Sure.
Sometimes I fancy that she does not even like seeing Lord Lufton talking to me." "She does not like it, Lucy, when she sees him flirting with you." This Mrs. Robarts said rather gravely, whereas Lucy had been speaking in a half-bantering tone. As soon as even the word flirting was out of Fanny's mouth, she was conscious that she had been guilty of an injustice in using it.
That strikes you as a rather heroic remedy, Clarence, eh?" he continued, in his old, half-bantering attitude towards Clarence's inexperienced youth, "don't it?" But Clarence was not thinking of that. Another more audacious but equally youthful and enthusiastic idea had taken possession of his mind, and he lay awake half that night revolving it.
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