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The summer sun beat down on him, and set a-glitter the currents in the Rhone. The ceaseless, laughing stream of citizens passed him by. Presently youth's need of action brought him half-unconsciously to an erect position. He glanced dully this way and that, and then slowly moved along the bridge towards the Villeneuve bank.
"Ouf!" said Truesdale, as he descended the steps, undecided whether to laugh or to curse. "'When I was a student at Cadiz," he found himself humming, half-unconsciously. "H'm! one thing learned in the study of this peculiar civilization: general badness jollied up, specific badness frowned down. What other discoveries await me, I wonder?"
Beaudesart takes it for granted, and so does everybody else. She says she accepted you some time ago." "You lying dog!" I remarked wearily. "I hope I may never stir alive off this seat if I'm not telling you the exact truth. Ask Mooney or Butler." "If I do sleep, would all my wealth would wake me," I murmured, half-unconsciously. "You don't want to marry her, then, after all?"
Holding himself aloof, yet never giving utterance to any irritation, he seemed half-unconsciously to resent the claims of love and friendship, as if they irked him. There was a look in his eyes as if he measured us, weighed us, analysed us all as strangers. Yes, even Dorothy.
Never a day passed that she did not miss the dear companionship of John, did not listen half-unconsciously for his footsteps, never a night she did not remember with anguished heart the manner of his death. But a year had passed, helping to heal the wound, and Elizabeth had found happiness in service.
She made herself spokeswoman, because Miss Walton had half-unconsciously glanced at her at the mere mention of the word boys, fondly believing that the other well-brought-up pupils would prefer their room to their company, whereas Lorraine might think the party very tame. Her answer was a pleasant surprise.
Legard, astonished and abashed, sank once more into his seat, and stared sullenly and half-unconsciously at his countryman. "You have lost your money," said the Englishman, after calmly replacing the pistols in their case, which he locked, putting the key into his pocket; "and that is misfortune enough for one night. For my part, I think you ought to be very thankful that you are not the winner."
Legard, astonished and abashed, sank once more into his seat, and stared sullenly and half-unconsciously at his countryman. "You have lost your money," said the Englishman, after calmly replacing the pistols in their case, which he locked, putting the key into his pocket; "and that is misfortune enough for one night. For my part, I think you ought to be very thankful that you are not the winner."
It was all so peaceful, all so happy, in this soft mild evening of the late September all seemed so full of promise, so eloquent of future joy, to those who had just begun their new career. But Leam knew nothing of the poetry of the moment felt nothing of its pathetic irony in view of the deed she was half-unconsciously designing.
The clear head in the room Lyman's always took it all in; Frank made a step to come between the Junior and his victim. Then he turned, half-unconsciously, toward Mason. Jimmie was standing with his hands on the table, looking straight before him, and in that look Frank read the certainty that the case was out of his control.
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