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Irene, still nervous, let her eyes wander about the book-covered walls; a flush was on her cheeks, and with one of her hands she grasped the other wrist, as if to restrain herself from involuntary movement. "The nurse came," she said at length, unable to keep silence longer. "That's right. An excellent woman; I can trust her." "Aunt seemed better when I came away." "I'm glad."
"Yes, for the game. You're going, of course, McTurkle?" He shook his head, beaming affably through his glasses. "No, no, I'm not going to attend the ah game." He waved a hand toward the book-covered table. "I shall be quite busy this afternoon, quite busy. But you have my my best wishes. May the ah the mantle of victory fall upon the shoulders " Well, we got licked that day.
But the feeling was too vague to put into words; and after Syndey had left her, in obedience to a call from his father, she sat on in the long, low room with its cushioned window-seats and book-covered walls the dear old room in which she had spent so many happy hours with her teacher and her fellow-pupil and wondered what would become of her when Sydney was really gone; whether all those happy days were over, and she must henceforth content herself with a life at Mrs.
I thoroughly like him." Meantime Brigit had sat down in a tall-backed carved chair, and, her hands on its arms, waited for Joyselle to speak. He walked about the room for a few moments, looking up at the book-covered walls, opening one of the windows, examining an ivory dragon that grinned on the chimney-piece. Then he burst out, "Eh, bien, my dearest, and when is it to be?" "When is what to be?"
She recoiled in dismay, also, from the sight of two yellow, paper-covered books on the table, flaunting shamelessly the titles: "Jack; the Pirate of Red Island," and "Haunted by a Headless Ghost." She made the bed as rapidly as possible, with many a backward glance at the book-covered washbowl, then she went downstairs and shook and brushed herself with little nervous shudders.
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