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Hender was attracted by her employer's kindness and softness of manner, and Kate by her assistant's strength of will. For some months past a friendship had been growing up between the two women, but if Kate had known for certain that Hender was living a life of sin with the stage carpenter she might not have allowed her into the house.
This preliminary fooling brought a cloud to the master's brow, and he even made such a point of decorum that he desired Augustine to take the assistant's arm on their way to Saint-Leu. Madame Guillaume, surprised at this manly delicacy, honored her husband with a nod of approval. So the procession left the house in such order as to suggest no suspicious meaning to the neighbors.
I thought of the assistant's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clew. Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant, and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London. He was doing something in the cellar something which took many hours a day for months on end.
From the expression of his face Yakov saw that it was a bad case, and that no sort of powders would be any help; it was clear to him that Marfa would die very soon, if not to-day, to-morrow. He nudged the assistant's elbow, winked at him, and said in a low voice: "If you would just cup her, Maxim Nikolaitch." "I have no time, I have no time, my good fellow.
Assistant is more highly born than Mrs. Principal and gives herself airs; and the men are drawn in and the servants presently follow. 'Church privileges have been denied the keeper's and the assistant's servants, I read in one case, and the eminently Scots periphrasis means neither more nor less than excommunication, 'on account of the discordant and quarrelsome state of the families.
This attitude, as Hodder analyzed it from the expressions he occasionally surprised on his assistant's face, was one of tolerance and experience, contemplating, with a faint amusement and a certain regret, the wasteful expenditure of youthful vitality. Yet it involved more. McCrae looked as if he knew knew many things that he deemed it necessary for the new rector to find out by experience.
Of course, I'm happy to have a hand, even though it's only an assistant's hand, in saving life. But the life isn't always saved. I suppose, the real secret of it is one likes to be doing the thing one can do best." "That's it!" He drew a heavy breath. "The thing one can do best. And when that thing is the setting poor, disabled human machinery straight making it run smoothly again!
Hodder, with unconscious fixity, looked into his assistant's honest face. He had an exasperating notion that McCrae might have said more, if he would. "Haven't you a theory?" "Try yourself," said McCrae. His manner was abrupt, yet oddly enough, not ungracious. "Don't think I'm criticizing," said the rector, quickly. "I know well ye're not." "I've been trying to learn.
He wished to have it a fruition for McCrae as well as for himself; since theoretically, at least, he had pierced the hard crust of his assistant's exterior, and conceived him beneath to be all suppressed fire. In short, Hodder wished to go into battle side by side with McCrae. Therein lay his anxiety. Another consideration troubled him McCrae's family, dependent on a rather meagre salary.
It was the assistant's turn to frown, but the brow-wrinkling was of puzzlement. "There's something a bit curious about that you don't mind our talking shop like a pair of floor-walkers, do you, Miss Adair? You know we expected the MacMorroghs would kick on the change of route and the loss of the big rock-cut in the canyon. There wasn't a word of protest.
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