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His voice trailed away into silence, his eyelids drooped and fell into a sound slumber, the first refreshing sleep he had enjoyed for many weary nights and days. Mary Deane stood looking at him thoughtfully. The turn had come for the better, and she silently thanked God.
He was carrying, he knew it well, a letter from the Princess, enclosing and doubtless supporting a demand for the hand of Patsy Ferris. Whitefoot slunk along at his master's side, his tail and ears eloquently drooped, and his doleful aspect reflecting admirably the mood of his master. But Stair set his teeth and went forward.
They were much older, but they invited me to the houses of their friends, and showed me a respect which affected me this respect having more reference, apparently, to the firmness I had exhibited, than to any splendor in my verses. And, indeed, these had rather drooped from a natural accident; several persons of my own class had formed the practice of asking me to write verses for them.
A gleam not unlike the lightning's quick flash shot from the eyes she drooped before him. "Is it Holman Blake I am listening to," said she; "I do not recognize my old friend in the cool and sarcastic man of the world now before me." "We often fail to recognize the work of our hands, madame, after it has fallen from our grasp." "What," she cried, "do you mean would you say that "
For a few moments he fumbled aimlessly over the papers and documents, then from his pocket took a flat leather case and, opening it, held in his hand a portrait of the engineer's mother. As he looked at the face of the woman who had never ceased to hold the first place in his heart, his lips framed words he could not speak aloud. Slowly his form drooped, his head bowed.
"I have a place near by where I can stay very well." Her face had drooped. "Oh!" she murmured, as she saw the dilemma. "What have I done!" There was a smell of something burning within, and he looked through the window. The rabbit that he had been cooking to coax a weak appetite was beginning to char. "Please go in and attend to it," he said. "Do what you like. Now I leave.
The ship answered quickly and rounded to while her weather fore and mizzen yards flew forward until they touched the starboard backstays and the men hauled in the slack of the braces. With the main yard square to check her way the jibs drooped down along the stays. "Mr. Broadrick, you may let go the starboard anchor and furl sails."
If he caught an occasional glimpse of dainty blue and white fabrics, he made no demonstration of interest or acknowledgment. It was quite apparent that he was lazily surveying the château, puffing with consistent ease at the cigarette which drooped from his lips.
She held out her hand to him an indifferent hand that drooped limply in his and he took his leave of them in the middle of the room. He went home with terror in his heart. Of the Minna of two months before, of his beloved Minna, nothing was left. What had happened? What had become of her?
Then her eyelashes drooped long and black on her cheek, and her face was all aflame with color. He stood still a second, breathing hard. Then from the shadow he hurled himself into that zone of glowing firelight where she stood. A white flame passed over his face and lighted his eyes with that burning, incandescent glow that only those cold, blue eyes can show.
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