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My wildest dissipation was the Neighborhood Club. I could not recall an evening away from home in years, except on business. Yet now I must have a free evening, possibly an entire night. In planning for this, I forgot my nervousness for a time.
One could see the same type of girl any time, standing behind a counter in a shop, or dancing at a party of young people. Polly's grace and her ardent, unconventional temperament made it easy to understand why the attention should be focused upon her during this single scene. Besides, she had one long speech to deliver. This was the moment when the girl felt her only real nervousness.
Brownlow beguiled her nervousness by opening it, and distributing the letters. The first she opened was such a startling one, that her head seemed to reel, and she doubted whether the shock of last night was confusing her senses. "MY DEAR MRS. BROWNLOW, -What will you think of us now that the full truth has burst on you? Of me especially, to whom you entrusted your dear daughter.
Quietly he began making preparations for breakfast, and fed the dogs. At half-past one o'clock he shook Wabigoon by the shoulder. "Get up!" he cried, as the Indian youth sat erect. "It's time to go!" He tried to suppress his nervousness when Mukoki and Wabi joined him beside the fire. He determined not to let them know of his visions, for there was gloom enough among them as it was.
But I forgot my nervousness; I forgot my audience; I forgot myself, as I always do when once my soul, as it were, finds wing in music, and buoys itself in the air, relieved from the sense of earth. I knew not that I had succeeded till I came to a close, and then my eyes resting on the face of the grand prima donna, I was seized with an indescribable sadness, with a keen pang of remorse.
His head was massive, his hair thick and very fair; his form lithe, tall, full of muscular elasticity. He stood so, silent, for a full minute, till I began to catch my breath from nervousness. Then he opened the Bible, and: "May I just read you a few verses from the Bible?" he said.
Hen noted her cousin's unexplained nervousness, and it may be she divined a little further. She answered no, not a bit of it. She said she meant to speak to him, not as a business expert, but only as his daughter. It was always a mistake to have secrets in a family, said Hen. Good advice, undoubtedly. Only Hen didn't happen to know the most peculiar circumstances....
Perhaps if no tragedy had taken place in the house on Street these various persons would not have been so ready to interpret thus unfavorably a nervousness excusable enough in one so cut off from all communication with his kind. But with the violent end of his master in view, and his own unexplained connection with it, who could help recalling that his glance had frequently shown malevolence?
The letter was in Frank's neat hand, a little shaken, perhaps, by nervousness. "DEAR BROTHER," it ran, "I know you will grieve at receiving this, and I wish that I might bear your grief for you, but I cannot, though I have as heavy a burden as this can bring to you. Mine would have been lighter to-day, perhaps, had you been more straightforward with me.
Peter was now wild with nervousness; he was afraid somebody in the grocery store would notice him, and he made desperate efforts to eat the crackers and cheese, and scattered the crumbs all over himself and over the floor. Should he wait for Jerry Rudd, or should he take those he had already? He had got up and started for the door, when he saw the last of his victims coming down the street.