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Updated: September 14, 2025
For the hour the duller villain, the man who was wont to take orders and to refrain from overmuch thought or question, seemed to have become master. Sheer physical exhaustion and the constant maddening pain had had their will of Captain Stewart. A sudden shiver wrung him so that his dry fingers rattled against the wood of the chair-arms. "All the same," he cried, "I'm afraid.
Jasper Gaunt's head drooped, and he stared down at the papers on the desk before him, nor did he move, only his long, white fingers began to tap softly upon his chair-arms, one after the other. "I will pay you forty thousand pounds," said Barnabas. Then, all in one movement as it seemed, Gaunt had risen and turned to the window, and stood there awhile with his back to the room.
Laying her hands on the high chair-arms, leaning down so that she could look into his face, Flora made her thrust. "What do you think he wants?" she gently asked. It was as if she would coax it out of him. His answer was correspondingly low and soft. "It's that damned ring."
He turned and looked back anxiously at the man in the armchair. M. Gaston, twitching in a pitiful manner and still frightfully pale, was clutching the chair-arms and glaring straight in front of him. Sir Brian started slightly and advanced again to his visitor's side. The burning cigar lay upon the carpet beside the chair, and Sir Brian took it up and tossed it into the grate.
Even Miss Spinner stopped choking, and announced that she "declared." What she declared was not imparted, but as the general trend of exclamation was against the Professor I knew that did she continue her statement it must be aimed at him. My father leaned back and grasped the knobs of his chair-arms.
He had sat there only a few minutes, when, laying down his pen and pushing back his chair, he rested a hand uneasily on each of the chair-arms and looked on the floor. Soon he arose and left the room. His course was along a passage which ended in a central octagonal hall; crossing this he knocked at a door. A faint, though deep, voice told him to come in.
He slowly extended both arms and stood upright in gladiatorial strength and compelling erectness. "But now ye're a-comin' inter my arms of yore own accord because we was made fer one another." Again her lids came down over the girl's eyes and her fingers tightly gripped the chair-arms for support.
She was suddenly silent then, staring out ahead, her hands clutching the chair-arms. To her inflamed fancy, it was as if, beyond the hedge, the old disused hitching-post had become incarnate and, in the form of her naive and horned conception, was coming toward her with the whites of his eyes bloodshot.
Presently the blue of his eyes went all black, and with strange unwavering concentration he gazed straight before him. A light spread over his face, his hands felt for the chair-arms and held them firmly. He began: "I first remember swinging in a blanket from a pine-tree at a buffalo-hunt while my mother cooked the dinner.
Ruth noticed that the two men had taken the same position, vis vis to each other in their respective easy-chairs, their heads thrown back upon the cushions, their arms resting on the chair-arms. Something in Louis's veiled eyes caused her to interpose. "Will you play, Louis?" she asked. "Not to-night, ma cousine," he replied, glancing at her from lowered lids.
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