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These two appeared to have attained the culminating point of a discussion half-bantering, half-serious. "Now, Monsieur Malicorne," said the young girl, "does it, at length, please you that we should talk reasonably?" "You believe that that is very easy, Mademoiselle Aure," replied the young man. "To do what we like, when we can only do what we are able "
The weight of years has at last cooled the hot blood, but a hint of departed swashbuckling days still glistens in the old eyes as he sits on his narrow porch and recalls scenes of the old days. To one interested in the psychology of the Southern negro, this shriveled old man, with his half-bantering, half-pathetic attitude offers an interesting study.
I think you will readily believe my statement." Continuing in the same half-bantering vein, I said: "I intend to immortalize all members of medical staff of State Hospital for Insane when I illustrate my Inferno, which, when written, will make Dante's Divine Comedy look like a French Farce."
Mr Bunker folded his arms, leaned his back against the foot of the bed, and began in his half-bantering way, “I have amused you, Baron, now and then, you must admit?” The Baron made no reply. “That I place to my credit, and I think few debts are better worth repaying. On the other hand, I confess I have subsisted for some time entirely on your kindness.
There, as everywhere in American society, you will be much more welcome if you come without brains." Reginald's half-bantering tone reassured Ernest a little. Timidly he dared approach once more the strange event that had wrought such havoc with his nervous equilibrium. "How do you account for my strange obsession one might almost call it a mania?"
The half-bantering, half-commiserating tone of M. Verduret was not calculated to calm Prosper's irritation. "That being the case, monsieur," he cried, "I will thank you for your past services, and decline them for the future, as I have no need of them. If I attempted to defend my honor and my life, it was because I hoped that Madeleine would be restored to me.
Father Murchison spoke the last words with earnest gravity, dropping the half-bantering tone which they had both assumed. "You take the matter very seriously, I believe," said Guildea, also speaking more gravely. "How else can I take it? You wouldn't have me laugh at it when you tell it me seriously?" "No. If we find my visitor still in the house, I may even call upon you to exorcise it.
She at such moments remembered how she had beaten Puck, and how in her half-bantering but still too serious manner she had apologized for doing so, and had explained the reason. And therefore she could not interest herself about Grace Crawley as vividly as she should have done. "No; one never does," she said. "I was thinking about it all that day as I drove home," said Fanny.
The old story still? I thought you had found solace? Basil looked an indignant wonder. His friend, sitting on the couch beside him, continued in the same half-bantering tone: 'When were you last at the house of a certain disconsolate widow, on the Quirinal? 'What mean you? cried the other, starting up, with sudden fury in his eyes. 'Are you vowed with my enemies to drive me mad?
This done, pole, iron, and rope like the Three Fates remained inseparable, and Ahab moodily stalked away with the weapon; the sound of his ivory leg, and the sound of the hickory pole, both hollowly ringing along every plank. But ere he entered his cabin, a light, unnatural, half-bantering, yet most piteous sound was heard. Oh!
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