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"Forgot where the door was, and went out of office by the window." "Was it a war?" "Oh, no," said Dick. "Only Mexico." The parlour-maid returned with a sealed letter. Until she was gone, Amaryllis eyed the writing on the envelope with reluctant displeasure; then looked at Dick. "Please do," he said. When she had glanced at the letter. "I wish you'd said don't," she complained.
They dreaded the mysterious power of spells and incantations, of potent herbs, and execrable rites; which could extinguish or recall life, inflame the passions of the soul, blast the works of creation, and extort from the reluctant dæmons the secrets of futurity.
There are many who never have a whole hour alone. They live in reluctant or indifferent companionship, as people may in a boarding-house, by paradoxical choice, familiar with one another and not intimate. They live under careless observation and subject to a vagabond curiosity. Theirs is the involuntary and perhaps the unconscious loss which is futile and barren.
After a tacit exchange of forgiveness, he said, "I am afraid I startled you. I was just coming for a book to read myself asleep with. "Not at all," she returned. "I was just " Then she did not say what, and he asked: "Making some studies?" "Yes," she owned, with reluctant promptness.
His shadow across the threshold heralded his reluctant coming, and Dryad turned from the half-filled box upon the table over which she had been bending and nodded to him almost before he caught sight of her. That little, intimately brief inclination of the head was her only greeting. With hands grasping each side of the door-frame Old Jerry stood there and gazed about the room.
Pearson was much embarrassed. "I should like to come, immensely," he said, with an earnestness unmistakable; "but but, to be honest, Captain Warren, there is a reason, one which I may tell you sometime, but can't now neither Miss Warren nor her brother have any part in it which makes me reluctant to visit you here. Won't you come and see me at the boarding house? Here's the address.
Scarcely less reluctant to repeat the scolding she felt so acutely than to employ the methods of rebuke she deemed less severe, I had no little difficulty in evading her entreaties. Only a very decided request to drop the subject at once and for ever, enforced on her conscience by reminding her that it would be enforced no otherwise, at last obtained me peace without the sacrifice of liberty.
"Durward!" said the querist; "is it a gentleman's name?" "By fifteen descents in our family," said the young man; "and that makes me reluctant to follow any other trade than arms." "A true Scot! Plenty of blood, plenty of pride, and right great scarcity of ducats, I warrant thee.
Only half audible was the reluctant answer, yet he heard it, smiled at what he fancied a shy falsehood, and said tenderly "Will you let me love you, dear?" "No." Fainter than before was the one word, but it reached and startled him. Hurriedly he asked "Am I nothing to you but a friend?" "No." With a quick gesture he put down her hands and looked at her.
Jim listened for a time, then he raised his arm for silence. "It was booze did it! Booze and nothing else! Am I right?" Reluctant nods went around the crowd. "And yet," Jim went on, "there's hardly a white man in the camp who hasn't fought me on my ruling that liquor must not come within the government lines. You all know what booze means in a place like this.
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