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It was a voice that matched with his well-acted surprise, when he appeared, confronting us, on the other side of the tree-trunk. The cure opened his arms. "Ah, mon enfant, viens, viens! how good it is to see thee once again!" They were in each other's arms. The cure was pressing his lips to Renard's cheek, in hearty French fashion.
Two girls were walking up and down with their arms around each. Jim knew in a moment who they were, but he loitered behind them until they turned. "Oh!" exclaimed Lily Ludlow in well-acted surprise. "Are you out taking a walk?" "Yes," answered Jim, quite as innocently as if the matter had not been arranged a few hours ago. "And this is my sister. And this is Lily Ludlow, and this Belle May."
The count concealed his exultation under an air of well-acted reluctance, and required much persuasion before he could be taught to look with favor upon this unexpected and sudden proposition. There was no simulation in the dismay, the horror with which Bertha's proposal was greeted by the countess.
Had it not been for Ithuel's very positive knowledge of the ship his entire certainty of her being his old prison, as he bitterly called her it is not improbable that the lugger's crew might have been the dupe of so much well-acted ingenuity; and as it was, opinions were greatly divided, Raoul himself being more than half disposed to fancy that his American ally, for once, was wrong, and that the ship in sight was actually what she professed to be a cruiser of the republic.
The huddle, the flutter, the bustle, the escape, the alarm, and the mock alarm; the prettinesses heightened by consternation; the courtier's fear which was flattery, and the lady's which was affectation; all that we may conceive to have taken place in a mob of Brighton courtiers, sympathising with the well-acted surprise of their sovereign; all this, and no more, is exhibited by the well-dressed lords and ladies in the Hall of Belus.
When he entered the room where the hapless victim of all these comic and tragic scenes was still weeping, Max asked the meaning of such distress; seemed surprised, pretended that he knew nothing, and heard, with well-acted amazement, of Flore's departure. He questioned Kouski, to obtain some light on the object of this inexplicable journey.
Having won temporary respite by his well-acted anguish, he was ready to proceed again on the national plan of avos which may be vulgarly rendered into English by "running for luck." But even more attractive than these house diversions and the village were the other external features of that sweet country life. The mushroom season was beginning.
Snowdon watched her, fancying it a well-acted ruse to disarm a dangerous rival; but in that sweet face there was no art; one glance showed her that. The words smote her to the heart and won her in spite of pride or passion, as she suddenly took the girl into her arms, weeping repentant tears.
Come, don't be a fool, Levinsky. Who ever took the words of a woman seriously? What did she say that you should take it so hard?" "You had better ask her," I replied, with a well-acted frown "Ask her! She gets wild when I do. I never saw her so wild. She thinks you insulted her first. Well, she is a woman, but you aren't one, are you? Come to the house this evening, will you?"
She saw the force of this, I must admit, with admirable readiness, and speedily yielded to the united invitations she received, though always with a well-acted reluctance, and saying that she did so merely "because the Count Oliva was such an old friend of the family and knew my poor dear husband as a child." On Ferrari I heaped all manner of benefits.
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