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'Did you happen to glance at the address on the wrapper of the one that came to you? 'My valet opens all the papers and irons them. Mr. Van Torp looked very bored as he said this, and he stared stonily at the pink and green waistcoat which his visitor's unfastened coat exposed to view. Hundreds of little gold beads were sewn upon it at the intersections of the pattern.
But at the beginning she had not given much thought to her own personal feelings in the matter, and it was only after the ride with van Hert she found these suddenly confronting her in their full significance. And because the turn of events was becoming a little overwhelming, she spent the hours between parting with him and his coming interview with Meryl in a whirl of emotion wholly new to her.
"You think the Skimmer is not a man to receive such visiters with an old woman's welcome;" pithily observed Myndert. "I much mistake the man, if he yield so beautiful a vessel, peacefully. Duty is imperative on a seaman, Alderman Van Beverout; and, much as I lament the circumstance, it must be obeyed." "I understand you, Sir.
Powart made no comment upon this, which he read in privacy after carefully decoding it. Van Emmon had no idea what he was thinking, of course, but wondered mightily how the chairman was going to deal with the situation. He could scarcely read that aerogram to the commission.
Neither Van Horn nor Buller would admit that there was danger of this; but Grayson, who had seen the hand yesterday; Fields, who was making blood counts for the case; Lenhart and Stevenson, who had come to make friendly calls every few days and who knew from Fields how things were going all were shaking their heads and saying in worried tones that it looked pretty "owly" for the hand, and that Van Horn and Buller would do well if they pulled Burns through at all.
"Yes," said Ellen, "I suppose it does; but that's the very thing I want to know the reason why. And I noticed just now, it shone in my face before it touched my hands. Isn't it queer?" "Humph! there's a great many queer things, if you come to that," said Mr. Van Brunt, philosophically.
Back of everything, above all else loomed in black and gigantic proportions the fact that Van Lennop had gone away forever without a word to her, that he even had thought less of her when it came to leaving than of the woman whom he had seemed to avoid.
"Ah!" she cried, "you swore that you would not try to kill him for this offence." "Yes, Sweet, I swore, and I will keep my oath. This time I will not try to kill Swart Piet." Then they went into the house, and Ralph spoke to Jan about this matter, of which indeed I had already told him something. Jan also was very angry, and said that if he could meet Piet van Vooren it would go hard with him.
When she suddenly burst from the door into all the golden glory of the sunset, herself as glorious with color, warmth, and youth as the great day-orb in the west, Van felt his heart give one tumultuous heave in his breast, despite the resentment he harbored.
The company was in difficulties; Monsieur van Zant, the proprietor, could not make it pay, and it was upon the point of disbanding.
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