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His whole nature rebelled at it, and he grew savage as he thought that it was no business of his to put it right. Throwing his cigar away he went below and knocked very gently at the stateroom door. It was opened by Christine, who had, perhaps, bathed her face, for the traces of tears were almost gone, though enough remained to give her eyes an appealingness that went to his very heart.
"If I drove her away" he began, and then ended with an appealingness to be remembered of the Dick who had not been nettled by life, "Jack, I wish she wouldn't." "I'll ask Charlotte," said Raven. "Your mother out yet? No? Well, don't bring her into it." He went off to the kitchen where Charlotte was just setting little silver pots on a damask-covered tray.
Since the hour when he left the house at Chelsea in full-hearted silence under the effect of Mirah's farewell look and words their exquisite appealingness stirring in him that deep-laid care for womanhood which had begun when his own lip was like a girl's her hold on his feeling had helped him to be blameless in word and deed under the difficult circumstances we know of.
Such works of art, such artists of widest wholesome appealingness, there are in all periods of artistic development; more in certain fortunate moments, say the Periklean age and the early sixteenth century, than in others; and most perhaps in certain specially favoured regions in Attica during Antiquity, and during painting times, in the happy Venetian country.
It was not vanity it was ready sympathy that had made him alive to a certain appealingness in her behavior toward him; and the difficulty with which she had seemed to raise her eyes to bow to him, in the first instance, was to be interpreted now by that unmistakable look of involuntary confidence which she had afterward turned on him under the consciousness of his approach.
The attitude was rigidly erect; the very dark eyes, under the snowy and abundant hair, had a trick of absent staring; in certain aspects the whole figure had a tragic, nay, formidable dignity, from which one expected, and sometimes got, the tone and gesture of tragic acting. Yet at the same time, mixed in therewith, a curious strain of womanish, nay childish, weakness, appealingness.
The eyes, richly blue but darkened by the startled pupil, were bewildering in their soft yet steady appealingness. Her hair was parted and carried back in waves extraordinarily thick and probably knotted behind. That, of course, he could not see. But the little soft rings of it about her forehead he noted absently.
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