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She was interested in her case; these people had been kind to her, and then perhaps it was the real reason there was Roger.... When at last the man paused for breath, she bowed her head slightly. "I can only say again that I am sorry," she replied, and left the room. Trembling with anger, she went straight to her room and stood by the window, clutching the curtain and staring out unseeingly.
He urged her no more, but stared almost unseeingly out of the window at the roofed farmhouses, and the yellow hills, like reclaimed desert, with bright patches of cultivation, and a far, floating background of the blue Thesala mountains.
She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me." "No. I forgot. You never did ask each other anything, did you?
But, say, honest now, it wasn't McTurkle's fault, was it? "Curly" sat with head in hands, elbows on desk, and eyes fixed unseeingly on the half-opened door. The afternoon sunlight made golden shafts across the rows of empty seats. The windows were open, and with the sunlight came the songs of birds, the incessant hum of insects, and occasionally a quick, rattling cheer.
"At what point then in your intimate relations with a man with the co-respondent in particular would you have considered that wrong began and right ended?" The wretched woman had looked pitiably at the judge. The judge looked unseeingly before him into the well of the court. "At what point?" Traill had insisted. "I don't know how to say it," she pleaded feebly. "Then can I assist you?
They said he'd bring them over to-night." "He will," Cap'n Abe assured her. But he stopped a moment, stock-still in the middle of the room, and stared at her unseeingly. Evidently his mind was fixed upon an idea suddenly suggested by her speech. "He will," he repeated. Then: "I'll get the fat kettle over an' the fry-cage ready. Amiel brought me a likely cod.
I looked him unseeingly in the face, struck my mare a blow with my whip, and dashed past him. I even felt angry, I think, that a Fraser should have the power to make me feel so badly in doing my duty. After that I had forgotten. There was nothing to make me remember, for I never met Alan Fraser again.
I'm awfully sorry!" exclaimed Leslie, reeling backward from the shock of collision with some one she had unseeingly bumped into as she plowed her way along, her head bent to the wind, her eyes only on the beach at her feet. The person with whom she had collided also recovered a lost balance and turned to looked at her.
Silence fell, broken only by the thud of hoofs and the heavy breathing of the two horses. Bud's slim, lithe figure had slumped a little in the saddle, and his eyes were fixed unseeingly on the wide, flat sweep of prairie unfolding before them, dim and mysterious under the brilliant stars.
With that he put out his hand to her, and when she unseeingly accorded him hers gave it what he thought an awkward, cowardly pressure and left her. There are no graceful ways for leaving Circe's isle, Alston thought, as he hurried away, unless you have at least worn the hog's skin briefly and given her a showing of legitimate triumph.
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