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O'Halloran was a chivalrous Irishman, a daredevil of an adventurer, with a pure love of freedom that might very likely in the end bring him to face a row of loaded carbines with his back to a wall, but Bucky had his reticencies that even loyal friendship could not break down. This girl's secret he meant to guard until such time as she chose of her own free will to tell it.
And then very tenderly, he would lift them to his lips, one by one, laying them down on her lap again where he could see them. And they would smile at one another a faint smile hers would be, seen as it were, through the veils of her exquisite reticencies.
And this attraction affected her morally, producing in her modesties, reticencies of speech, even of thought, and prickings of unflattering self-criticism unknown to her heretofore. Her ultimate purpose might not be virtuous. But undeniably, such is the complexity not to say hypocrisy of the human heart, the prosecution of that purpose developed in her a surprising sensibility of conscience.
She always gave you a feeling of delicately intertwined reticencies and avowals, a faint New England flavouring which she had never lost. "I do hope they'll like me," she murmured. Dinner was a great success. After dinner a few guests trickled in for the tiny dance that was to follow.
I remembered the reticencies of her statement at the Hanyards, and began to see dimly some of the connecting links in her story. My Lord Brocton's character was well enough known to be the subject of common talk at our market ordinaries.
'WIE ALT? he repeated. And he hesitated. It was evidently one of his reticencies. 'How old are YOU? he replied, without answering. 'I am twenty-six, she answered. 'Twenty-six, he repeated, looking into her eyes. He paused. Then he said: 'UND IHR HERR GEMAHL, WIE ALT IS ER? 'Who? asked Gudrun. 'Your husband, said Ursula, with a certain irony.
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