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Beside, you have leave to come again to-morrow, and if you go to Philadelphia there will, no doubt, be opportunity for conversation upon the road." But as Harriet passed through the door Clifford laid a detaining hand upon Peggy's arm. "My cousin," he said speaking rapidly, "you have always spoken truth to me, and I want you to do so now.
"Sleep is the best medicine in the world," she said. "Do you sleep better now?" Dinah asked, detaining her. Isabel hesitated for a second. "Oh yes, I sleep," she said then. "I am able to sleep now that you are safe, my darling." Dinah clung to her. "I can't think what I would do without you," she murmured. "No one was ever so good to me before." Isabel held her closely.
"Very well," she said, briefly. "I understand you. I turn in here. Good-night!" "Just a second!" he said, detaining her. "You won't hurt me with any of them, Ward or the girl, or the father?" The girl's lips curled with distaste. "No," she said, tonelessly. "The look implies that you despise me!" Royal said, smiling. "Oh, not YOU!" she said, in a tone of self-contempt.
"Mother," said the young man, detaining Mrs. Leslie, who wanted to set off in chase of Jenny, "Mother, you should not let Oliver associate with those village boors. It is time to think of a profession for him." "Oh, he eats us out of house and home such an appetite! But as to a profession, what is he fit for? He will never be a scholar."
That would be telling a lot of things." Any one seeing them might have thought that this middle-aged gentleman was taking advantage of an opportunity to bask in the smile of a pretty girl for the sheer pleasure of her company. He was purposely detaining her, but whether from a wish to amuse himself or to mark his indifference to what went on around him she did not fathom.
And with an astonished, frightened gurgle in his throat the negro involuntarily fell back. "Run!" Monny breathed, prisoning him where he stood, with the little bright eye of the Browning cocked up at his face. She had to be obeyed then, and they ran, the two of them, flashing past the black man, touching his clothes as they squeezed by, yet he dared not put out a detaining hand.
She could only writhe her hand from his grasp with childish contortions; she could only glare at him with eyes that were prettily and piquantly brilliant; she could only slap at his detaining hand with a plump and velvety palm, and when she found her voice it was high falsetto. And all she could say was, "Leave me be, looney, or I'll scream!"
The police are detaining him as a suspect. He gave your name as a reference. He is a Russian." "All right. I'll come at once." I hung up the receiver and told the servant to whistle for a taxi-cab. Ten minutes later I was picking my way through the crowds on the platform to the station-master's office. I entered, and found a strange scene being enacted.
He bowed low, and spoke through set teeth: "I regret the necessity of detaining you a moment longer, but I believe you have been anxiously expecting a letter for some time, as I hear that you every day anticipate my inquiries at the post- office. This afternoon the express agent gave me this package."
Again the woman said she could not tell. 'We must go back, said the old man, hurriedly. 'We must see what this is. 'No, no, cried the child, detaining him. 'Remember what you promised. Our way is to the old green lane, where she and I so often were, and where you found us, more than once, making those garlands for her garden. Do not turn back! 'Where is she now? said the old man.
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