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Perhaps she was also worrying over his resentment, as if she did not know him! He would go to her at once at Boomville. Then he remembered that she was coming with Mrs. Horncastle, and might be already on her way here by rail or coach, and he would miss her. Demorest in the meantime had seized a paper, and was intently reading it.
And, Lord, dear!" he added, with a quick brightening at the fancy, "if you could only just rig yourself up in that pretty lilac gown you used to wear at Boomville it would be too killing, and just like old times. I put it away myself in one of our trunks I couldn't bear to leave it behind; I know just where it is. I'll" But Mrs. Barker's restraining scorn withheld him.
Demorest did not reply. Reaching out his hand abstractedly, he wrenched off a small slip from a sapling near him, and began slowly to pull the leaves off, one by one, until they were all gone. Then he switched it in the air, struck his bootleg smartly with it, said roughly: "Come, let's get to work!" and strode away. Meantime Barker on his way to Boomville was no less singular in his manner.
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