Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 1, 2025
He could have groaned aloud to think on the sums he wasted nightly on gaming one half of which would have adorned these beauties and set them free to flutter their wings in the sunshine of fashion. Later Maria, half-smiling, half-sad, told how they were promised luck by the old witch of Dublin, though she gave not all the particulars.
And when her light foot was on it and her half-smiling, half-timid face looked back upon us, he leaped out beside her, when instantly came the sound of a great crack, and I heard his laugh and her cry go up together, and and everything has been midnight in my soul ever since, till suddenly through the blank and horror surrounding me I caught the words, 'They will lie together in one tomb! Then then I awoke and my voice came back to me and my memory, and hither I hastened to stop this unhallowed work; for to lay the victim beside her murderer is a sacrilege which I for one would come back even from the grave to prevent."
"I'm awfully sorry for him," Sally went on, a little uncertainly. "But what can you do? He must realize " "He realizes nothing!" Martie said, half-smiling, half-sighing. "He's not a Catholic, then?" "No. He's nothing." "But you explained to him? And you told him about Cliff?" "Yes; he knew about Cliff."
"I don't think he means to run away," said that gentleman. "I begin to think his story is correct. And hark you, my young friend, if you ever get locked up in a hotel room again, just see if there is a bell before you make such a confounded racket." "Yes, sir, I will," said Paul, half-smiling; "but I'll take care not to get locked up again.
"I could worry along without 'em," the Demon replied, half-smiling. "You see," he added, with the blend of irony and pathos which always captivated his friend, "you see, my dear old chap, I'm the first of my family at Harrow, and the sight of all your brothers and uncles and fathers makes me feel like Mark Twain's good man, rather lonesome." At once Desmond responded, clutching Scaife's arm.
The colonel is an old fogy and pompous but a gentleman as good as they make them!" A slightly jealous uneasiness and a greater sense of shame came over Blair. "I seem to have been the only one who suspected and did not aid you," he said sadly, "and yet God knows" The widow had put up her slim hand in half-smiling, half-pathetic interruption. "Wait! I have not told you everything.
'That's all right, he said, 'well, I wish you the best of luck. There was an amused twinkle in his kind sympathetic face, as I was still half-smiling over his little controversy with Gregson. After this we moved off to another rest camp not far away, for a few days. On March 24 we were due to take over the trenches at Hill 60 again for three days.
Carr-Boldt daily to hope they could match, then Margaret was transformed within a few hours from a merely pretty, very dignified, perfectly contented secretary, entirely satisfied with what she wore as long as it was suitable and fresh, into a living woman, whose cheeks paled and flushed at nothing but her thoughts, who laughed at herself in her mirror, loitered over her toilet trying one gown after another, and walked half-smiling through a succession of rosy dreams.
Mamma and Annette like Mr. Hunt very much. They say there is such a straightforward goodness about him, that they are sure dear Olivia will be happy. 'Was there any difficulty about it! 'Why Matilda and Albert seemed to think we should not think it grand enough, said Violet, half-smiling. 'He is a sort of great farmer on his own estate, a most beautiful place.
This reminds me of my Uncle Maurice! Whenever I have need to strengthen myself in all that is good, I turn my thoughts to him; I see again the gentle expression of his half-smiling, half-mournful face; I hear his voice, always soft and soothing as a breath of summer! The remembrance of him protects my life, and gives it light. He, too, was a saint and martyr here below.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking