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His face held so frank a kindliness, especially the eyes which looked tired and a little sad, that David felt its expression like a friendly greeting or a strong handclasp. The lady did not have this, perhaps because she was a great deal younger. She was yet in the bud, far from the tempering touch of experience, still in the state of looking forward and anticipating things.
They had loved him well and he them, but there was something floating overhead, from the white staff at the stern, he held still dearer. One officer, who was most urgent in his pleadings, was her bonny "Uncle Barney," mother's own brother, and when he left, without kiss for her or handclasp for the sad-faced soldier in the worn uniform of blue, mother's heart seemed almost breaking.
"You can't stop me if I choose to visit Graustark." "Does your father know that you contemplate such a trip?" asked Lorry, returning her handclasp and looking doubtfully into the swimming blue eyes of his wife. "No, he doesn't," admitted Beverly, a trifle aggressively. "He could stop you, you know," he suggested. Yetive was discreetly silent.
Then all at once Willa was aware of a handclasp more vitalizing, and looked up into a pair of familiar laughing eyes. She smiled infectiously. "How do you do, Mr. North?" "By Jove!" Winnie beamed at her. "How do you girls manage it? to change your type, I mean. I thought you were wonderful that night, but now you've eclipsed the memory of it, and I didn't believe anything could ever do that.
If you are mercifully permitted to make good this wicked crime, arouse yourself, Anderson, and resolve to be a different boy." He turned as though he could say no more, and with a warm handclasp for each of the others, closed the door. "I bet he has been up all night," whispered Ernest.
His handclasp tightened and hers responded, and then he dropped her hand and turned away. The woman felt a desire to scream; she never knew how she choked her desire. But she rushed after him and caught him tightly and sobbed, "Oh, Watts Watts Watts McHurdie are you never going to have any more snap in you than that?"
She rose abruptly, thrust her hand out to Jim and said: "Good night, old man. I've got to begin packing." "Packing for where? New York?" "Yes, and then France." "I've told you before, I won't let you go." And then it came over him that he had no right even to be dejected and alarmed at Charity's departure. Charity felt in the sudden relaxing of his handclasp some such sudden check.
Nugget's face assumed a mollified expression, and he accepted a hearty handclasp from Ned and Randy. Then he began to brush the dust from his neat gray suit and patent leather shoes. Meanwhile Clayton Halsey had been fairly choking with stifled mirth in a dark corner of the room. He now came forward, trying hard to assume an expression of gravity.
And then, though by dozens now officers, agent, interpreter and territorial officials they were swarming about the impassive central figure, they gave way right and left that the two friends might meet, and 'Tonio, turning from Archer's handclasp, saw his young champion and leader, and the stern, dark features melted, the bold, fearless, challenging eyes softened on the instant.
He shook hands and hurried away, but to the girl who was earning her college education there was something in his handclasp, denied before. The next day there was a settling of affairs at Sunrise, and the character-building put into Lloyd Fenneben's hand, as clay for the potter's wheel, seemed to him to be shaping somewhat to its destined uses.
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