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'Listen, he said; 'I've wanted someone like you for years, years, and years. I've got no one to look after 'Then why didn't you tell me at once who you were? she questioned with adorable pertness. 'Oh! he laughed; 'how could I plump like that? When I saw you first, in the bureau, the stricken image of your mother at your age, I was nearly down. But I came up all right, didn't I, my dear?
I want to show her the toughest patient I ever had to pull loose from his work." The two went out upon the porch. Tom gazed at young Haskins, as the latter looked at him with a smile. "Did he engineer this part of the thing, too, Boswell?" questioned the young man, interestedly. "Sure, he did. But who is he?" "Didn't you know who he was?
Accordingly, she came without waiting to change her dress, having only taken off her hat and arranged her hair. She felt guilty, and dreaded the being questioned, yet longed to make her avowal and have all explained. The usual greetings passed, and then Mr. Belamour said, "I heard your horse hoofs come in late. You were detained?"
Was it really true that there had been no change within him? He again questioned himself, and there came no clear answer; decidedly, he would find nothing. It was all but a delightful awakening, an overpowering desire for life, a longing to open his arms widely enough to embrace everyone and everything indeed, a breeze of joy seemed to raise him from the ground and carry him along.
"And what do you do all day, shut up by yourself?" questioned her visitor, with a sort of contemptuous surprise. "I think of him," returned Saidie, quite simply, with a sort of proud pleasure that made the Englishwoman stare incredulously. "Silly little fool!" she ejaculated, with a harsh, disdainful laugh.
"No?" she questioned. "I'll come to see Vera, the medium," he explained. Vera frowned, and then, in happy embarrassment, smiled wistfully. "Oh, well," she stammered; "of course, if you're coming to consult me professionally my hours are from four to six." "I'll be there," cried the District Attorney. Vera leaned forward eagerly. "What day will you come?" she demanded.
The contemporary influence of great Continental writers to whom reticence is unknown, combined with the influence of a contemporary opera and drama to which reticence would be unprofitable, are now assaulting this dominant convention. Very possibly it is doomed. But it is only within recent years that its rule has been questioned. One result of it may, I think, be fairly admitted.
"To know what?" questioned the girl breathlessly. "To know that I loved you, darling, better than all else save honor," he said, taking her into his arms. "See the token I left behind for you. It's an old, old family ring with the Seymour crest. You'll wear it, girl of mine, won't you, wear it always."
"I do not quite know of what I have been suspected, but I am sure Colonel Henderson would not have asked me these questions if it had not been his duty." "If you had not been a guest in this house, Miss Abbeway," the Colonel assured her, with some dignity, "I should have had you arrested first and questioned afterwards."
As soon as I could disengage myself I hunted up Jackson, the negro head-waiter and general house-man, who knows everything that happens at the club. He had just finished his dinner and I drew him into the cloak-room so that our talk might be uninterrupted. I took out a five dollar bill and held it up before his expectant eyes. "Do you see that, Jackson?" I questioned.
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