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Without a word she took down the sheathed goldhandled sword and laid it across the chair-arms. "I can't take the sword out, can I, maman?" he asked. She could not help smiling. "Not yet, my son, not yet." "I has to be growed up so the blade doesn't hurt me, hasn't I, maman?" She nodded and smiled again, and went about her work. He nodded sagely. "Maman " he said.
Again he frowned jocosely. His elbows on the chair-arms, he tapped together the points of his fingers, exhibiting nails which were all that they should have been. Out of regard for the Derwents' mourning, he wore a tie of black satin, and his clothes were of dark-grey, a rough material which combined the effects of finish and of carelessness note of the well-dressed Englishman.
I have hoped, and prayed, and striven to know God's will; and I have talked with my Lord Cromwell not once or twice, but often. And it is useless to resist any further." His voice cracked with misery; but Chris saw him grip the bosses of his chair-arms in an effort for self-control.
The latter, who remained as fixed in the arm-chair as if she had been melted into it when in a liquid state, and could not now be unstuck, looked the girl up and down inquiringly, with her hands on the chair-arms. Such arrangements as the one Elizabeth proposed were not uncommon in country villages; but, though Casterbridge was old-fashioned, the custom was well-nigh obsolete here.
It brings us to the end, Will. God knows where it will come from next time." "It it you mean " An indefinable horror ran though the minister's voice, and I could see the cords shining on the hands which gripped the chair-arms. "Next time next year " His eyes were fixed on the child at his feet. "God knows where it will come from. Perhaps before another time something will happen.
Alexander P. Dill sat up straight, his long, bony fingers which Billy could still mentally see gripping the necks of those two in the saloon lying loosely upon the chair-arms. "I hope you will not mention the matter again," he said. "I realize that this is not Michigan, and that the temptations are But we will not discuss it. I shall be very grateful for your friendship, and "
For she discovered at once to her dismay that the chair was bottomless, and that only by hanging on for her life could she keep from dropping through. She thought hard for a moment, but thinking did not interfere with her grasp on the chair-arms, and then she realized that the wisest thing would be to discuss it publicly.
Every detail of her surroundings pressed upon her: the tick of the clock, the slant of sunlight on the wall, the hardness of the chair-arms that she grasped, were a separate wound to each sense. "My promise " she faltered. "Your part of our mutual agreement to set each other free if one or the other should wish to be released." She was silent again.
He had told the little incident brightly; but as he came to the end, his voice gradually lowered, and as he pronounced the last word, his eyes sought hers. Her eyelids fluttered; her breath seemed suspended. "I said you were my wife," he repeated softly, leaning forward, his hands grasping the chair-arms. "And what," asked Ruth, a little excited ring in her voice, "what did Will say?"
Thereupon the unhappy woman acted; the long suppressed outburst came at last. Stepping rapidly to the green transparent veil behind which Kazmah was seated, she wrenched it asunder and leapt toward the figure in the black chair. "You shall not trick me!" she panted. "Hear me out or I go straight to the police now now!" She grasped the hands of Kazmah as they rested motionless, on the chair-arms.
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