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I cannot!" cried Beulah firmly, though tears gushed over her cheeks. "Cannot? cannot?" repeated the doctor, pressing heavily upon her shoulders. "Will not, then!" said she proudly. They looked at each other steadily.
Then the procession set forward through the archway; the crowd pressing back before them, like the recoil of a wave, and surging after them again in the wake.
When she returned to the room she found him pressing Sasha's hand and saying: "Admirable! I'm convinced of it. It's very good for him and for you. A little personal happiness does not do any harm; but a little, you know, so as not to make him lose his value. Are you ready, Nilovna?" He walked up to her, smiling and adjusting his glasses. "Well, good-by.
Paralysed with fear, the poor girl neither spoke nor moved; she uttered no cry; but pressing her hands tightly across her breast, as if to still the loud beating of her heart, she sat gazing upon that fearful appearance, while, with stealthy step, the savage advanced from his lurking-place, keeping, as he did so, his eyes riveted upon hers, with such a gaze as the wily serpent is said to fascinate his prey.
"I understand perfectly what you want to say. It was like being lost and thinking that nothing could save you; a feeling that is piercing and dull at the same time, like a heavy weight pressing on you with sharp stabs in it. It was what they call shellshock, a terrible thing. Sometimes it drives men crazy for a while. But the doctors know what to do for that malady. It passes. You got over it."
She brought the cup to him, investigated a dish of bacon, and slipped into her place behind the tall silver coffee pot. "What are we going to do to-day, Dad?" "I really don't quite know," Mr. Linton said, smiling at her. "There aren't any very pressing jobs on hand we must cut out cattle to-morrow for trucking, but to-day seems fairly free.
He asserted the right to relieve pressing bodily wants, and to administer to the necessities of others on the Sabbath, but beyond that he allowed himself in no deviation from established custom." Mr. James looked thoughtful. "I have not reflected on the subject in this view," he replied.
And, in order that she might at least know how he felt, he took their son in his arms, and, pressing him to his breast, said: "If you see your mother before I do, you will tell her that we spent a very lonesome evening without her, will you not?" "Why, what ails you?" exclaimed the child. "You have wet my cheeks with tears you are sweeping!"
He took the young man's hand and held it a moment, pressing it kindly. "It was not I who made the law against strangers, and it was not meant for men like you," he added. Zorzi knew how much this meant from such a master and he would have found words for thanks, had he been able; but when he tried, they would not come. "You may trust me," was all he could say.
She stood quite still, her heart beating to suffocation; then she raised her hand and pushed the hair from her forehead. "I feel just as though the roof was pressing down upon me," she whispered to herself. "As though, through me, something awful was going to happen.
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