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Bean, taking off her green glasses, polished them and held them up to the light, explaining, "This here sea air makes 'em all of a muck." Suddenly she leaned over to Mrs. Tuttle with an air of sympathetic interest. "I suppose er your sister Hetty'll be comin' on board when we get to Chadwick's Landing her and her husband?" Mrs. Tuttle fidgeted.

Pryor's back had opened while she was talking, and Miss Gibbie Gault, listening with her hand on the knob, tilted her chin and screwed up her left eye so tightly that it seemed but a little round hole, and at sight of it some of the ladies brightened visibly, while others fidgeted in nervous apprehension of what might come.

She fidgeted, moved the furniture about and felt a little unstrung. So that was what being married meant! One was torn from one's early surroundings, and shut up in three solitary rooms to wait until one's husband came home, half intoxicated. Nonsense! he loved her, and he was out on business. She was a fool to forget that. But did he love her still?

When persuasion failed to convince Miss Briskett that an elephant grey exactly matched her silvery fragment "I'll see if we have it in stock!" cried the damsel, hopefully, and promptly disappeared into space. The minutes passed by; Cornelia frowned and fidgeted, was introduced to a fourth dame, and declared that England was "'cute."

"Professor," continued Robert Canler, with great deliberation, as though carefully weighing his words, "I have come this evening to speak with you about Jane." "You know my aspirations, and you have been generous enough to approve my suit." Professor Archimedes Q. Porter fidgeted in his armchair. The subject always made him uncomfortable. He could not understand why. Canler was a splendid match.

"Well, I don't want to pry into your business in any way," said Wilson, "but I go into a good many ports in the course of the year, and if you think it would be any use my looking about I'll be pleased and proud to do so, if you'll give me some idea of who to look for." The old lady fidgeted with all the manner of one half desiring and half fearing to divulge a secret.

The man leaned back in his chair, and gradually seemed to enter a hypnotic state. His muscles relaxed, his face became still and set, and his breathing was slow and a little labored. Fibsy retained his vacuous look he even fidgeted a little, in a bored way and rarely glanced toward the man of "clear sight." Miss Ames, though anxious for results, was alert and quite on her guard against fraud.

From the moment Maurice entered the room, she did not take her eyes off him; and, under her scrutiny, the young man soon grew nervous. He sat and fidgeted, and found nothing to say. Ephie was wayward: she did not think she wanted to go out; it looked like rain.

Dorn waited until the young woman had shifted her hips into a more protesting outline. "I agree," the red face chimed in. "It's nonsense. Dorn's full of clever nonsense. I quite agree with you, Miss Dillingham." Miss Dillingham was the lavender stocking. The wife of the red face fidgeted, politely ominous. She announced pertly: "I agree with what Mr. Dorn says."

Indeed as the short night waned and, threshing about in my emotion, I fidgeted to my high-perched window for a glimpse of the summer dawn, I became at last aware that I was staring at it out of eyes that had compassionately and admiringly filled. The eastern sky, over the London housetops, had a wonderful tragic crimson. That was the colour of his magnificent mistake.