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Half-consciously, he saw the girl's sudden start, and the look of alarm upon her face as she drew back from the glare of his hate-flashing eyes and the bestial snarl of his lips. With an effort he composed himself: "Pardon, Miss Elliston, I have frightened you with an uncouth show of savagery. It is a rough, hard country this land of the wolf and the caribou.
My hand, guided by I know not what machinery, is at this moment adding syllable to syllable upon this paper, to the general fulfilment, perhaps, of my felt intent, yet giving that intent an articulation wholly unforeseen, and often disappointing. The thoughts to be expressed simmer half-consciously in my brain.
When she smiled up at him he turned his face away that she might not see what he knew was written on it. And then he realized how much that smile had come to mean to him how all unawares he had come to covet and to prize it how he had half-consciously of late resorted to unexpected words and gestures to coax it to her lips. There was no sleep for either of them that night.
Also, although half-consciously, the señora's inner memory dwelt upon that corner of her back yard which it had been Jane's sad fortune to take away. The señora was not unkind or vindictive, but she had a mouse-trap sort of mind which only occasionally was open to the admittance of ideas, but which snapped fast forever upon such few notions as wandered into it.
"Stop, Robert!" she cried. "You're making it harder for both of us." "Harder for both of us?" he repeated slowly. "Yes." There was a moment's silence. Hillyer, while he spoke, had half-consciously stopped the automobile, which stood now, humming softly, in the middle of the road that stretched white and empty ahead of them and behind them.
But often there is a mind well polished, married to a conscience and natural impulses left as they were in childhood, except that they have sprouted up into evil and poisonous weeds, richly blossoming with strong-smelling flowers, or seeds which the plant scatters by a sort of impulse; even as the Doctor was now half-consciously throwing seeds of his evil passions into the minds of these children.
Thrilled by keen excitement and half-consciously acting, she had told him that poverty did not daunt her, but when she came to think, it would be hard to go without the expensive refinements she enjoyed. With something of an effort, she banished her disturbing thoughts. She was going to marry Jim. Perhaps she could mold him a little.
"Forgive me! Oh, do forgive me!" During her outburst he had risen, and was now leaning against a young tree beside her, looking down upon her white and motionless. He had made no effort to take her hands, and they dropped upon her knee. "This is terrible!" he said, as though to himself, and half-consciously "terrible!" "But indeed indeed it's best."
Her assumption of equality with him was disconcerting, and at times he half-consciously resented the impudence and bizarreness of her intrusion upon him rising out of the sea in a howling nor'wester, fresh from poking her revolver under Ericson's nose, protected by her gang of huge Polynesian sailors, and settling down in Berande like any shipwrecked sailor.
But, while apparently amusing themselves in the most careless fashion, they were half-consciously making discoveries and forming opinions about each other. Amy rose daily in the estimation of her friend, but he sank in hers, and each felt the truth before a word was spoken.
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