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His pleasant, lazy, half-sarcastic voice was in her ear, saying something coolly impertinent his gray, half-smiling, half-cynical eyes were looking life-like up at her. What was he doing now? Sleeping calmly, no doubt she forgotten as she deserved to be. When to-morrow came, would he by any chance remember it was her wedding-day, and would the remembrance cost him a pang?
Della expressed her pleasure, and half-crying, half-smiling, kissed Blanche affectionately, telling her she hoped, since she was one of Wilkins' friends, that she would henceforth be a sister to her, and that they would all be very happy. Then Wilkins drew that fluttering hand in his, and led Della to the altar. Guly and Blanche stepped to their places, and the ceremony began.
An instant after she had gone on, with a look half-smiling, half- forbidding, thrown over her shoulder at him. "I've a notion to follow her," he said eagerly, and he took a step in her direction. Suddenly she turned and came back to him. "Your plans are in danger don't forget Felix Marchand," she said, and then turned from him again.
He looked at him lounging in his chair and calmly puffing the smoke from his half-smiling lips as though he hadn't a thought beyond the little blue rings that he was making. "That was a devilish thing to do, Phadrig!" he said, a little above a whisper. "Devilish, possibly, Highness, but necessary, of a certainty," was the quiet reply.
And when he slept his rest was troubled with dreams of an anxious search about the highways and byways of London for that half-sad, half-smiling face which had so wrought upon his imagination. Long before daylight he awoke at the sound of bells, and hootings, and whistlings, which summoned the Dudley workfolk to their labour.
"Of course he came the moment he knew." And after a moment of half-smiling meditation he pursued: "It was one May-day, and there was some sun; and there was a smell of spring in the air which we felt even in that dirty place. Ah, how I remember me of it all!
She attempted to withdraw it, but he held it firmly in his own strong clasp; and that expression of unrelenting determination was again in his face and eyes. "No, Patricia," he said calmly, but in a tone of finality which there was no denying, "I will not release your hand, just yet." He was half-smiling, but wholly insistent and determined.
But and he smiled down on his amused colleagues that lady member had lately shown such strong tendencies toward the new-woman movement that, one and all, the members hoped that she might be convinced of the fallacy of her really deplorable position. "Scamp!" Mostyn heard Dolly exclaim, and, glancing at her profile, he saw a half-smiling expression on her flushed face.
He nodded, without a word or any other movement, and continued to look at her, his face wearing a half-smiling expression of gentle gladness. I knew, from my old acquaintance with him, that he was under so great emotion that he dared not speak.
Morton; you have forgotten that I used the words, 'a willing party." She spoke calmly, half-smiling; but he was still insistent. "Did you mean by their use that I am to understand that the circumstance meets with your entire approval?" he asked, slowly and with distinctness. A heavy frown was gathering on his brows. "Yes; quite so."
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