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And as she looked her eyes met his. A smile that was extraordinarily sweet and half-sad lit up his face. "Is it permitted to admire Madame's horsemanship?" he asked, with a little bow. Diana coloured faintly and twisted the jade necklace round her fingers nervously. "It is nothing," she said, with a shy smile that his sympathetic personality evoked in spite of herself.
This roof, which is in itself a sort of castle in the air, has an extravagant, fabulous quality, and with its profuse ornamentation the salamander of Francis I. is a constant motive its lonely pavements, its sunny niches, the balcony that looks down over the closed and grass-grown main entrance, a strange, half-sad, half-brilliant charm. The stonework is covered with fine mould.
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.
"I wish I knew why God made such ugly creatures," said Saffy to Mark. The boy gave a curious half-sad smile, without turning his eyes from the thornback, and said nothing. "Do you know why God made any creatures, pet?" said Hester. "No, I don't. Why did he, Hessy?" "I am almost afraid to guess. But if you don't know why he made any, why should you wonder that he made those?"
He had met the cure, first accidentally on the shore, and afterwards in the cure's house, finding much in common he had known many priests in the North, known much good of them. The cure glanced up at him now as they passed, and a half-sad smile crossed his face. Gaston caught it as it passed. The cure read his case truly enough and gently enough too.
It was bitterly cold and though I begged him to be selfish for once and take a cab, he wouldn't you remember his Spartan contempt of costly comforts and I can see him now, going down the steps, smiling, shaking his head, waving his hand, and saying with that half-sad, half-quizzical, smile of his, 'Plenty of people who need bread a good deal more than I need cabs, little daughter. So, in the icy wind, he walked to the cable-car, with its over-heated atmosphere.
She lifted her face and threw out her hands, a lovely young half-sad smile curling the deep corners of her mouth. "Sometimes one feels so disdained," she said "so disdained with all one's power. Perhaps I am an unwanted thing." But even in this case there were aids one might make an effort to give. She went to her writing-table and sat thinking for some time. Afterwards she began to write letters.
'That's news to me intirely, mother, said Lanty; 'bad luck to it! Honor laughed that half-proud, half-sad laugh of mothers when their sons outgrow them. 'Fine talking! Much he cares for the old mother if he can see the young girl go with him.
Mother was on his arm and she walked clear to the gate with him. "LADDIE, ARE YOU SURE ENOUGH TO GO?" I heard her ask him whisper-like. "SURE AS DEATH!" Laddie answered. Mother looked, and she had to see how it was with him; no doubt she saw more than I did from having been through it herself, so she smiled kind of a half-sad, half-glad smile.
The keen, irregular face, the grey restless eye, the thin mobile lips, the tumbled brown hair, the careless gait and dress, as they remain stamped on the canvas of Holbein, picture the inner soul of the man, his vivacity, his restless, all-devouring intellect, his keen and even reckless wit, the kindly, half-sad humour that drew its strange veil of laughter and tears over the deep, tender reverence of the soul within.
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