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Once more he was in the land of the Blue-grass, his journey was almost over, and in a few hours he would put his confident feet on a new level and march on upward. Gradually, as the lad paced the platform, the mist thinned and the outlines of things came out.
So we paced the platform at Modane trying to look unconcerned while the soldiers of France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, England and Rumania walked by us, clearly wondering what form of military freak we were.
"You find life pleasant?" "You do, I hope?" she answered, as they paced on. "Not unpleasant, at all events. I am no longer slaving under the iron gods. I like my work, and it promises to reward me." Eve made a remark about a flower-bed. Then her voice subdued again. "How do you look back on your great venture your attempt to make the most that could be made of a year in your life?"
The girls paced up and down together; but somehow the edge of the day's enjoyment seemed gone. They went in to their midday meal between twelve and one, and afterwards Kitty, who said she felt a little tired, went to lie down. Florence, however, was still restless and perturbed; she hated the thought of the vicinity of Bertha Keys, and yet she had a curious longing to know something about her.
The brute couched, choked, and fell, and before Chinn knew well what had happened Bukta bade him stay still while he paced the distance between his feet and the ringing jaws. "Fifteen," said Bukta. "Short paces. No need for a second shot, Sahib. He bleeds cleanly where he lies, and we need not spoil the skin. I said there would be no need of these, but they came in case."
A glorious morning; one of those rare days which go to make the magic of spring; a day when all the golden notes in the landscape become articulate as they vibrate to the caress of the soft, warm air. The rector was only dimly conscious of its rare beauty; for his face was troubled as he paced his study, with head bent and hands behind his back.
He covered his ears, and paced up and down the room as though racked with pain. "How can I tell them how can I tell them?" he sobbed. "Our poor boy our fine boy our little Dick, who had grown into such a fine, big chap. He died gloriously yes, there's some consolation in that. But it doesn't wipe out the horror of it, my poor lad. Shot as a spy! Executed!
More, he took Barry's admission of a cloud in the past as a father would take it from a son; he paced the floor minute after minute, head bowed, gray eyes half closed, only to turn at last with an expression which told Barry Houston that a friend was his for weal or woe, for fair weather or foul, good or evil. "Eet is enough!" came abruptly. "There is something you do not want to tell.
All time seemed before them, and how better could he fill it? He seemed himself to suffer in this hour a joyful transformation; to know better why men lived and loved to live, to reach out to the full strength and the full function of his being. The world changed for him as he changed it for her. Twice and thrice she had paced the gallery before she came and stood opposite to him.
Boleslas Gorka, who, when once his adversary had fallen, paced to and fro without seeming to care as to the gravity of the wound, suddenly approached the group formed by the four men, and in a tone of voice which did not predict the terrible aggression in which he was about to indulge, he said: "One moment, gentlemen. I desire to say a few words in your presence to Monsieur Dorsenne."
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