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She wanted help, sympathy, encouragement, suggestions, and instead of that you gave her the the marble heart, as they say. You made her feel so feeble and flimsy " "Did I?" asked Abner gropingly. Eudoxia loomed before him in all her largeness. "You did. She was disposed to be a noble, useful worker, but now it seems as if she might drop to the level of a mere social leader. Do, please, treat Mrs.
Each of the four watchful men in the narrow apartment breathed softly. Once more Lee lifted his gun above his head. As he held it thus, he put out his left hand gently, inch by inch, gropingly. Extended full length, it touched nothing. Slowly he moved it in a semi-circle, the gun in his right hand always ready to come crashing down.
She was swaying, her hands reaching out gropingly, her face the gray of ash that crumbles from an ember. Adare sprung to meet her, a strange cry on his lips, and Philip was a step behind her. He heard her moaning words, and as he rushed past them into the hall he knew that she had fallen fainting into her husband's arms. In the doorway to Josephine's room he paused.
She put her face out of the window, and on the instant a dark form seemed to loom up to meet her out of the shadow. She could not recognize that shape, yet she knew it belonged to Cleve. "Joan," he whispered. "Jim," she replied, just as low and gladly. He moved closer, so that the hand she had gropingly put out touched him, then seemed naturally to slip along his shoulder, round his neck.
Somebody brought him up to a meeting of the Redwood Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and I pounced on him like an owl on a mouse." John Cardigan's old hand came gropingly forth and rested affectionately upon his boy's. "What a wonderful scheme it would have been a year ago," he murmured sadly.
Gropingly backward into the past reached the fingers of memory, until at last they seized upon a faint picture, faded and yellow with the passing years.
Johnny did not answer for a moment. It was hard to put what he felt into words. "I dunno just how t' say it," he said, gropingly, at last, "but it makes me want t' go gunnin' fer them wolves b'fore they hamstring her. It well it don't seem t' me like it was a pitcher, somehow. It seems like the reel thing, kinda." Chip moved his head languidly upon the cushion. "I'm dead tired, kid.
As I did so Desiree threw her hands gropingly above her head and fell fainting to the ground. Harry sprang forward in time to keep her head from striking on the rock and knelt with his arms round her shoulders. We had nothing, not even water, with which to revive her; he called her name aloud appealingly. Soon her eyes opened; she raised her hand and passed it across her brow wonderingly.
"I have the camera," Skag chuckled. Cadman's thin hand came out gropingly. "The cigarettes are in the tea-pot," he said in a voice dulled with pain. "I have the pistol," Skag added dreamily. Something of the situation had touched him with joy. If he spoke at such times, it was very dryly. "Doubtless you have our bathing-suits," Cadman suggested.
Crossing this space, he saw the figure of Peter Creed, grotesquely stooped and old in the obscuring gloom, moving slowly, almost gropingly, and yet directly, as though impelled, toward the barn's overwhelming shadow. Slowly he unbarred the great door, swung it open, and entered the blacker shadows it concealed. The door closed after him. "Ike in his secure post of observation did not stir.
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