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Updated: June 24, 2025
Believe me, there is no occasion for this desperate manner " "I am desperate." "Perhaps. I understand your feelings; you and Mr. Maillot have my deepest sympa " She cut me short with a rap of the pistol upon the chair-back; I looked to see the thing go off. "We don't want sympathy," she said through her teeth. "We want justice. And justice we 'll have. Go over there and write!"
"Well, it wasn't your fault if you didn't," he replied, leaning his head against the chair-back and looking at her with his intimate and charming smile. "I had to fight hard enough to keep you out even of the stocks. Was I as much in your way, I wonder?" She shook her head. "In my way? I wouldn't allow it. Why should I?"
As civilly as he could, he declined an invitation to join the party, pleading fatigue from his long journey, and moved on to the end of the room, where his old waiter, Henri, stood, with hand on chair-back, ready to help him to a seat. "Deuced fine fellow, Verdayne," explained Barclay in parentheses to his friends. "A bit abstracted sometimes, as you see. But he'll be all right after tiffin.
I had thrown the coat across the chair-back in such a way that the inside pocket was exposed, leaving the ends of the notes plainly recognisable.
In the wooden rocker beside the warm stove she sat down quietly, lapping her hands over her waist-line. "Gott in Himmel," sitting well away from the chair-back and letting her eyes travel slowly about the room, "just like it was yesterday; just like yesterday." And fell to reciting the phrase softly. "Ja, ja," said Mrs.
Dill seated in a large, cane rocker which was unquestionably not big enough for his huge person his feet upon another chair and his hands folded inertly on his drawn-up knees. He was asleep, with his head lying against the chair-back and his face more melancholy than ever and more wistful. His eyes, Billy observed, were deep-sunk and dark-ringed.
It's well enough to say not to worry now, when my mind's got going on it," said the old maid, querulously; she flung her weak frame against the chair-back, and she began to wipe the gathering tears. "But if you'd agreed with me in the first place, it wouldn't have come to this. Now I'm all broken down, and I don't know when I shall be well again."
My visitors shot in like so many arrows, and "brought up" on their hands on the tablecloth, or lit on their feet on the top rail of a chair-back or on my shoulder, as the fancy took them. It would be tedious to go through all the congratulations and thanks which I offered, and indeed received, for it was important to them that the Jars should not get into wrong hands.
He stood before her, one hand on the chair-back on either side. She sat thus, caged between his arms, with drooping eyes and heightened color. "Not so close, David, please," she begged, fidgeting uneasily; but the request was unheeded. "Do'ee move away a wee," she implored. "Not till yo've showed me," he said, relentless. "I canna, Davie," she cried with laughing, petulance. "Yes, yo' can, lass."
A set of embroidered baby linen for Flurry's best doll, dainty enough for a fairy baby; a white fleecy shawl for mother, and another for Carrie, and a chair-back for Ruth; she was fond of pretty things, but I certainly did not look for much in return. Allan had brought me that pretty dress from London, and another for Carrie, and he had not Fortunatus' purse, poor fellow!
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