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Frederick stepped over the threshold, and Tess shut the door behind him. Tess stood with swift-coming breath, her back to the door, waiting. Frederick must leave before she dared speak to Andy. It seemed an eternity ere the sound of the retreating footsteps died away, and she knew he was gone. Then she started across the room, haltingly.
Seeking Nippers, I came upon him haltingly reading my diary aloud to an amused circle of cattlemen, in his quarters aft. "Give me that book back!" I demanded. He ignored me. "Give him a rap in the kisser, Skinny!" I drew back, aiming a blow at Nippers.
No thought came to her of appealing to this man, of suing for pity and charity, but she began to speak, the words coming from a full heart that gave her pain were spoken in low tones, nearly as if she had been talking to herself. "I I'm thinking of the boys who were stoning the frog," she began, haltingly. "You remember. It was fun for them but death to the frog.
Bergmann left the place on her right vacant; she did not dare fill it up, because in her heart of hearts she felt certain Shakespeare would arrive, and she looked forward to a coup de theatre, which would be quite spoilt if his place was occupied. On her left sat Count Sciarra; the unknown friend of Angela Lockton sat at the end of the table next to Willmott. The luncheon started haltingly.
Some perversity kept her eyes upon her work, her hands occupied. "Good-by, Thomas." The door creaked ajar. There was a pause. It closed reluctantly. She heard him stumble at the steps, go haltingly down the path. She stabbed the fabric in her hand with her needle as if that minute tool had been a weapon. "Men are all alike," repeated Persis, the tears running down her cheeks.
That, at least, I grasped: the pitifulness of words before that love by which self goes wholly lost in the being of another, adrift yet cared for, gathered all wonderfully in. "And your Russian friend your leader?" I ventured, haltingly. His reply was curiously illuminating:
"I didn't know . . . ." she began haltingly, only to be cut short by Mrs. Wouldn't you have known her anywhere?" John Engle, courteous, urbane, a pleasant-featured man with grave, kindly eyes and a rather large, firm-lipped mouth nodded to Norton and gave Virginia his hand cordially.
Some new puzzle confronted her, and she repeated, haltingly: "By ... my ... husband!" Then quite suddenly, struck by a new idea: "But was it? How could she know?" "My dear, she showed it to her father, the Earl, and they were of one mind. His lordship read the letter. Dr. Nash told me. But it was Thornton's own letter to me that said you were dead. I have got it still."
Besides that, there are other striking differences in noses and ears that make his work much easier than you would imagine, once he has been trained to observe such things quickly." "It sounds all right," I agreed haltingly. "It is all right, too," he argued warmly.
Apparently satisfied, she smiled slightly and replied: "But certainly, monsieur. Come to the mill and my father will get you some. He is the manager." She spoke even more haltingly than he had, and with no semblance of a French accent the French rather of an English school. He stared at her. "But you're English!" he cried in surprise. She laughed lightly. "Of course I'm English," she answered.
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