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Of course anybody could see he was unusually attractive that he had that indefinable something about him which is seldom, if ever, seen outside of fiction or of Mr. Gibson's drawings perhaps it is entirely confined to them except in this one very rare case. Sacharissa's eyes fell.
I don't know why you and I shouldn't be enthusiastic optimists concerning wedded life; I can't see why we shouldn't pray for Sacharissa's early marriage." "William!" "Yes, darling." "You are considering money before my sister's happiness!" "But in her case I don't see why we can't conscientiously consider both."
Sacharissa's expression became skeptical; Linda watched her husband in unfeigned admiration. "These new and hitherto unsuspected currents," continued Destyn modestly, "are not electrical but psychical. Yet, like wireless currents, their flow eternally encircles the earth.
If he hunts hard enough and long enough he'll find some plumber or locksmith or somebody who'll come." She rang for Ferdinand; together they instructed him, and he went away, promising to bring salvation in some shape. Which promise made the young man more cheerful and smoothed out the worried pucker between Sacharissa's straight brows.
"Come along, precious!" she murmured, and thinned the frail top from the other side. A pale, damp, creased thing hoisted itself feebly on to the comb. Sacharissa's note changed at once. "No time to waste! Go up the frame and preen yourself!" she said. "Report for nursing-duty in my ward to-morrow evening at six. Stop a minute. What's the matter with your third right leg?"
As Killian Van K. Vanderdynk crept forth from the elevator, Sacharissa's nerves gave way; his, also, seemed to disintegrate; and they stood for some moments mutually supporting each other, during which interval unaccustomed tears fell from the gray eyes, and unaccustomed words, breathed brokenly, reassured her; and, altogether unaccustomed to such things, they presently found themselves seated in a distant corner of the drawing-room, still endeavoring to reassure each other with interclasped hands.
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