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You don't mean to say you had put it in your pocket beforehand!" she cried. Razumov gave a start. It might have been a sign of impatience. "I went home. Straight home to my rooms," he said distinctly. "The coolness of the man! You dared?" "Why not? I assure you I was perfectly calm. Ha! Calmer than I am now perhaps."
They took up a position in the lower yard, and hung over the fence, looking at the girls, every now and then bursting into a laugh and stopping suddenly, with a frightened glance at the bailiff. The bailiff was walking up and down by the steps. He had laid aside his pipe and become calmer; and when the men came out, he was cracking a whip and exercising himself in self-restraint.
It was too soon. Later later, perhaps, when I was calmer, when some of the injury had been repaired, when a spark of hope had been rekindled; then, if he asked, but now The days before me stretched such a bitter, hopeless blank! And how did I know that his act could ever be nullified! It might so turn out that now I never should accomplish my end.
No, she said to herself, I will win them, I do not want hateful strife. Who knows what is in a woman? how many moods in a quarter of an hour, and which is the characteristic one? Was this the Margaret who had walked with Lyon that Sunday afternoon of the baptism, and had a heart full of pain for the pitiful suffering of the world? As she sat there she grew calmer.
No doubt everything would be for the best; at least, for Philip, and yet how much how much I love him!" Frances buried her head in the bed-clothes, and sobbed, long and sadly. After this fit of crying she fell asleep. It was early morning, and the summer light was filling the room when she woke. She felt calmer now, and she resolutely determined to turn her thoughts in practical directions.
"Innocence is a poor shield from death. It was either father or Ralph," replied Willy, "and for myself I care not which." Then at a calmer moment he repeated to her afresh the evidence of the young woman Rushton, whom she and her father had housed at Fornside. "You are sure she said 'fifty yards to the north of the bridge'?" interrupted Rotha.
Finally, the irate duke lost all control of himself, ordered a horse, and rode out alone into the forest of Soignies. When he became calmer it was dark and he found himself far from the beaten tracks, in the midst of underbrush through which he could not ride.
The marquis was the calmer of the two. A strange and springing new life seemed to have entered his watery veins. A flare of the old-time fire rose up within him: he was again the prince of a hundred duels. On reaching the room, he lit all the candles and arranged them so as to leave no shadows. Next he poured out a glass of wine and drank it, drew his rapier, and bared his arm.
Lady Helena, Mary, Robert, and Glenarvan gazed at him in astonishment, at a loss to understand this unaccountable agitation. Paganel looked as if a sudden fit of insanity had come over him. But his excitement did not last. He became by degrees calmer. The gleam of joy that shone in his eyes died away. He sat down again, and said quietly: "When you please, my Lord, I am ready."
She took the vase of roses and left the room. Soames remained seated. Was it for this that he had signed that contract? Was it for this that he was going to spend some ten thousand pounds? Bosinney's phrase came back to him: "Women are the devil!" But presently he grew calmer. It might have, been worse. She might have flared up. He had expected something more than this.
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