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They had been brought together as if by a miracle; any haunting doubt and fear, too subtle and intangible to put into words or even concrete thought, would quickly pass away. She did not, however, go frequently into his arms. Someway, an embarrassment, a sense of inappropriateness and unrest always assailed her when he tried to claim the caresses that he felt were his due.
"How nice," cried Jean; then drew back a little, and looked at her sister, as though just aware that she was really present. "Why, Olive, you seems to me I don't know; but then, aren't you changed a good deal, someway?" "I don't know; do you think I am?" asked Olive feeling the color creep into her cheeks, at the honest childish question.
The thought of the convicts who had captured Bostwick aroused new apprehensions in her breast, though not for the man with the car. Someway Searle seemed strangely far away and dimmed in her regard. She was thinking of what she had overheard, back there at the Monte Cristo mine. "This has been a trying day," she said, apparently ignoring Van's last observation.
"Ma'am," he went on, "I knowed you come from Georgy onct, the same as me. And I knowed that a Georgy girl, someway, somewhere, somehow, would have a soft spot in her heart. I come to hear you sing. There's things that us fellers want, sometimes." The woman before him drew a deep, long breath. "I reckon you'll have to sing again," the man went on.
"Queenie!" he said. "Queenie!" Perhaps she heard. After an ordeal that seemed interminable her face was calm and still, a faint smile frozen on her marble features. Van waited there a long time. Someway it seemed as if this thing could be undone. The place was terribly still. The doctor sat there as if in response to a duty. He was dumb. When Van went out, the man on the doorstep staggered in.
Lots of worse things are printed and sold by thousands, but, someway, I can't seem to reconcile you and your glorious voice with a cook-book." "Allan Conrad," said Miss Wynne, with affected sternness, "if you hadn't studied medicine, would you be practising it now?" "No," admitted Allan; "not with the laws as they are in this State."
I can't face my friends just now. Someway I am making an awful fist of things. Everything I do is wrong. She no more trusts me than you would a rattlesnake, Belshazzar; and from all appearance she takes me to be almost as deadly. What must have been her experiences in life to ingrain fear and distrust in her soul at that rate?
"I don't suppose it does," Caroline mused, "but someway I'd feel easier about a perfect stranger investing her last cent in such a venture. I don't see how she can possibly make it pay, and I don't feel as if I could ever have a comfortable moment again until I knew whether she could or not. What are you looking so guilty about, Billy?"
Your romanticists claim that the realistic story has no charm, nor excitement, nor psychical thrill. This'll show them!" So he hurried to deliver it to Brown. Then he posed industriously to himself, and tried hard to do some more glooming, but it was difficult work. Someway he felt his cause not hopeless. This masterpiece would go far to convince her that he was right after all.
"No, sir, I want you to take him; it'd be the best thing fer him, an' I kin stan' it someway. A feller has ter stan' a lot o' things he don't like in this world, but I hope," feelingly, "all of 'em ain't as hard as givin' up his best friend." As if to avoid the sympathy he felt was forthcoming, he plunged hastily into the details that had led to the unexpected offer. "I'm Ben Edwards.
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