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"Even now," went on the professor haltingly, "I can-not believe ... it doesn't seem possible ... me? ... John, does the letter mean that Desire loves me?" John Rogers nodded, turning away. Silence fell between them. "What will you do about the other?" asked the doctor presently. "What other? There is no other. I loved Desire from the very first night I saw her. I didn't know it, then.

He did not even tell the Little Doctor good-by, though it was fifteen minutes before John Wedum, the ranchhand, had the team ready to drive Andy to town, and he was one of the Little Doctor's most loyal subjects. Andy walked haltingly down a palm-shaded street in San Jose and wondered just what would be the best and quickest way in which to find Mary Edith Johnson.

"Wanting the hat," continues my author, Kirstie, whom I but haltingly follow, for she told this tale like one inspired, "wanting guns, for there wasna twa grains o' pouder in the house, wi' nae mair weepons than their sticks into their hands, the fower o' them took the road.

Old Parlay groaned, moved one arm impotently, and opened his eyes. In them was the light of recognition. "My brave gentlemen," he whispered haltingly. "Don't forget... the auction... at ten o'clock... in hell." His eyes dropped shut and the lower jaw threatened to drop, but he mastered the qualms of dissolution long enough to omit one final, loud, derisive cackle.

"Good-bye, mademoiselle," said Lory, with a sudden cheerfulness; "we shall meet in France next time." Mademoiselle Brun held out her shrinking little hand. "Yes, in France," she answered. To Denise, Lory said nothing. He merely shook hands with her. Then he walked towards the door, haltingly. He used his sword like a walking stick, with his one able hand. Denise had to open the door for him.

Ernest reddened and fidgeted, and said haltingly "You know if you had been ill I would have been the first to go to you, but I knew you were quite well, and I've been so busy," he finished lamely. "Now, you know that I know that you have been idle quite unendurably idle," I retorted, a remark he received in embarrassed silence, which endured till I broke it with

Our idealization goes forward haltingly and hypocritically because we try to build from the stars down, instead of from the ground up. The place to seek the ideal is in the homely, the commonplace, and the necessary. An ideal that does not spring deep-rooted from the soil of practical life may be a topic for a sermon or a novel or for idle conversation among silly and pretentious people.

This, from Jeffrey, the heart of kindness, of consideration this instinctively brutal gesture. The gasp became a silence. A dozen eyes were turned on Jeffrey, who looked up as though seeing Roxanne for the first time. An expression of bewilderment settled on his face. "Why Roxanne " he said haltingly. Into a dozen minds entered a quick suspicion, a rumor of scandal.

"Well, of course, if a fellow doesn't have to bother too much about studies," said Paul haltingly, "he can do better work on the team; there can't be any question about that, I guess." "None at all," responded the coach. Neil stared at his chum indignantly. "You're talking rot," he growled. Paul flushed and returned his look angrily.

He took a cheque-book from his pocket and walked to a writing-table. "How much do you want?" he asked. She hesitated, and he looked round at her. "I I only want to borrow it," she said haltingly. "It is rather a big sum." "How much?" he repeated. "Five thousand pounds," she answered, in a low voice. He continued to look at her for several seconds.