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"I guess I've known it for quite a while," he said at last. "I didn't want to believe it, so I wouldn't. Are you engaged to him?" "Yes. It's not to be known just yet, Wallie." "He's a good fellow," he said, after rather a long silence. "Not that that makes it easier," he added with a twisted smile. Then, boyishly and unexpectedly he said, "Oh, my God!"
How was it Dwight never mixed the two? He began to feel that keen, observing eyes were pretty good things to have. He should certainly cultivate his own, in future! As this undercurrent of musings reached definite conclusion, he broke out, boyishly, "I'll know you apart after this, or know the reason why!" "And how?" asked Dwight. "Well, how do you, my boy?" was the quick counter-question.
In consequence, he felt quite boyishly eager for the hours to pass on Wednesday, and when at last it was time to start, dismissed his chauffeur with a curt sentence, and started off alone. The chauffeur, it may be mentioned, merely glanced after him, and with a shrug of his shoulders wondered "what the master was up to now."
"Well, you're a man and can do things." "Can't you do things?" "You know I can't. What do you suppose they'd say if I were to ride out just that way for two miles? They'd have a fit." "Who'd have a fit? Nobody but Alfred, and I didn't know you'd gotten afraid of him yet! I say, just let's! We'll have a race, and then come right back." The young man looked boyishly eager.
How hard and clear cut his profile was his nose was rather large! And how man-sure, and boyishly diffident. She'd be secure, her whole life through and she hated men who boasted. She suffered some for her snobbish wonder; but she was conscious of a new, great joy. "My lad!" she tried it aloud. "My lad!" She laid her fingers to her throat. A pulse throbbed there.
And though Jack was almost boyishly penitent, in the manner of one who comes before parental authority after he has been in mischief, still John Wingfield, Sr. could not escape the dead weight of an impression that he was speaking to a stranger and not to his own flesh and blood. He wished now that he had shown affection on Jack's entrance.
"Could it be," she reflected aloud, "that the person who had the tablet put up associated this place with some one who was English maybe a woman, if he was a man and so he wanted to use her language, not his own?" "You have guessed right!" exclaimed Vanno, boyishly delighted with her intuition. "He was an Italian. He loved an English girl."
The other was Miss Elliston herself. She was kind, she was friendly, she was boyishly frank. But occasionally she would withdraw into herself, and sometimes would disappear altogether into her cabin, to be found again, after long search, telling stories to some of the children.
She glanced often at Marion sprawled gracefully and unconventionally in the hammock with one cinder-blackened boot sticking boyishly out over the edge. Kate's eyes held an expression of baffled curiosity. They often held that expression when she looked at Marion. But presently the professor came, dragging his feet wearily and mopping his soot-blackened face with a handkerchief as black.
Ay, and in the presence of Colney Durance, Victor would not have been so encouraging, half boyishly caressing, with Dudley Sowerby! It was the very manner to sow seed of imitativeness in the girl, devoted as she was to her father. Nataly sighed, foreseeing evil, owning it a superstition, feeling it a certainty.
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