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Rolfe, as he led Janet to a table in a corner of the room, greeted his associates with easy camaraderie. From Miss Bond he received an illuminating smile. Janet wondered at her striking good looks, at the boldness and abandon with which she talked to Jastro or exchanged sallies across the room.
"You may be right; but if you tell me to go I shall try and obey you. But think what it means before you tell me to leave you forever." She did think what it meant. She looked at him, and she thought of his passing away from her forever more. She wondered what her life would be when he should have passed out of it. A blank?
"As she stood there between the corn-rows holding up her skirt she said she was going over to the lumber-camp again with Martha Sims to another big all-day blow-out. She said she was to start early and had so much fixing to do that she wondered if I'd spare the time to wash and iron a muslin dress for her. She said she'd pay well for it, because my things always looked so nice." "Impudent thing!"
I have often wondered what the answer would be from one of these chaps, and what he would actually say, if you held a loaded pistol to his head I mean the man who says he doesn't think life worth living. 'What do you think he would say? asked Coniston. 'He would scream: "Good heavens! What are you doing? Put that down!" said Edith. 'She's right, said Aylmer. 'She always is.
But after all it was a difficult situation when she got close to him, for she did not know what to say, although she felt an increasing desire to give him comfort. At any rate it was useless to stand there in silence looking at that little bowed head; would it be better to sit down by him, perhaps? she wondered, casting a doubtful eye on the decidedly dirty plank.
Acutely aware as she was of her youth, her beauty, and her charm, she wondered at her refusal. She did not regret her refusal. She placidly observed it as the result of some tremendously powerful motive in herself, which could not be questioned or reasoned with which was, in fact, the essential HER.
I was much distressed, and taxed my memory for a long time. At last a text did flash into my mind, and I wondered much that I had not thought of it before. "Bill," said I, in a low voice, "'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." "Ay, Ralph, I've heard the missionaries say that before now, but what good can it do me? It's not for me that. It's not for the likes o' me."
Allardyce, and told him that having now enough money for my needs I wished to leave his service and set forth on my way. He laughed and said: "I wondered how long 'twould go on. You are still bent upon your travels, then?" I assured him that such was the case, thanked him for his kindness, and asked to be allowed to go on the following Monday: it was then Friday.
"She may be persuasive and caressing with him; she may be eloquent beyond words. She may get hold of him," she wound up "well, as neither you nor I have." "Yes, she MAY" and now Strether smiled. "But he has spent all his time each day with Jim. He's still showing Jim round." She visibly wondered. "Then how about Jim?" Strether took a turn before he answered. "Hasn't he given you Jim?
Now and then he wondered vaguely about his boy and asked himself what he should feel when he went and stood by the carved four-posted bed again and looked down at the sharply chiseled ivory-white face while it slept and, the black lashes rimmed so startlingly the close-shut eyes. He shrank from it.
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