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"I do not know," she said, putting her palms to her head. "Perhaps I shall remember then. But you you must stay with me, Paul." Her lips quivered slightly. She turned her head away and looked out of the window at the horrible maze of houses in the Bronx and the disfiguring sign-boards. New York was slipping away. All my old life was slipping away like this and evil following us.
After encouraging the idea of the play, they declined the personal sacrifice of acting in it or, they accepted characters, and then broke down in the effort to study them or they volunteered to take the parts which they knew were already engaged, and declined the parts which were waiting to be acted or they were afflicted with weak constitutions, and mischievously fell ill when they were wanted at rehearsal or they had Puritan relatives in the background, and, after slipping into their parts cheerfully at the week's beginning, oozed out of them penitently, under serious family pressure, at the week's end.
He fancied she was not quite at ease. "Well," he said, "what's this surprise." She motioned him into the drawing-room. The surprise was a wonderful woman, brilliant in black not black silk, but a softer, delicate stuff. She reclined in an easy-chair with surpassing grace and self-possession. A black Egyptian shawl, spangled with silver, was slipping off her shoulders.
The church, the service, the minister, the external routine of a nominally Christian life, all was slipping away into a mist of past that could not be retained. And now the soul stood, a terror-stricken stranger, before the things not known. "I am afraid," repeated the faint voice. Winifred longed for words of comfort, but they did not seem at hand.
Jack called, in a tone which indicated that something had recurred to him. Then a half laugh from him fell on the brilliant, shining, hard silence with something of the sound of a pebble slipping over glare ice. "Leddy, it has just occurred to me that we are both foolish honestly, we are!" he said.
He turned abruptly round and touched the bell. I bethought me of Mrs. Flaxman and looked just in time to see her slipping off an elegant sealskin dolman, while her eyes looked very dewy and tender. "Mr. Winthrop, you are making this Christmas-tide positively regal with your gifts.
The men were beating their hands to keep them warm; and when they moved about the deck they had to keep close to the bulwarks, and catch hold of belaying-pins, ropes, or stanchions, to prevent themselves from slipping away to leeward. The sea, as it broke on board, froze on the deck, till it became one mass of ice.
The rapid motion through the air blew out his red shirt like a balloon on his back and made his new hat with a peacock's feather in it, like a coachman's, keep slipping on to the back of his head. He felt himself an intensely unfortunate person, and had an inclination to cry.
The others, farther to the east, were slipping back as fast as they could, but studiously keeping out of sight of those death-dealing loopholes. Presently it was apparent to the corporal that a number of them had got together far down the hill and were holding excited controversy, probably as to the best means of getting possession of their dead friends and then, their living enemies.
In the midst of the clapping that followed came a loud rap-tap-tap at the door, which immediately opened to admit much to the astonishment of the Fifth two of the prefects, and a consignment of Sixth form girls. "Whatever have we been and gone and done now?" murmured Verity. "Is music taboo?" asked Ingred guiltily, slipping away from the piano.
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