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He did not stare again into the fire, however; he folded his arms upon the high chairback and laid his face down upon them, like a woman who is hurt to the point of tears and yet will not weep. His booted feet were thrust toward the dying coals, his whole attitude spoke of utter desolation of a loneliness beyond words. Billy Louise set her teeth hard together to keep back the tears of sympathy.
Weldon smiled contentedly, as he drew out a frock-coat and inspected its satin-faced lapels. "Not for you, perhaps," he observed quietly. "Oh, I see." Carew puffed vigorously. "So you have a bidding to call upon Miss Dent." Weldon dislodged Carew's feet from the extra chair and utilized the chairback as a temporary coat-rack. "No; quite the contrary," he replied.
It was all sort of jerky-like. "'I'm sailin' through starry fields, he says, 'explorin' the wonders of the universe. Why am I called back to earth this way? Doth somebody want to question me about something? "Doc was all worked up. He held onto a chairback, an' he was so shakin' I could hear the loose chair rungs rattle. "'Is this Bacon? he says.
"And then he got up to go away, and stood with his hands resting on the chairback, and spoke to me in a low, queer voice. He said, 'Don't try to play any tricks on me, my good girl and don't let your sister try to play any. You would both have reason to regret it." She was a half-hypnotised thing, and Betty, watching her with curious but tender eyes, recognised the abnormality.
You ain't broke it off at the last moment, same as before? You ain't had a letter from Jake?" He looked at the white petticoat on the chairback, and shook his head in bewilderment. "I've had no letter," she answered. "I've had no letter from Selby for a month. It was all settled then, and there was no good writing, when he was coming to-morrow with the minister and the licence.
This is a matter of difficulty when one is still very weak, and is achieved by rising first into a sitting posture by pulling oneself up by the bars of the bed, and then by slipping first one leg, then the other, over the side. Properly done, even the weakest thus find themselves in a position that by the aid of a chairback may become, however shaky, a standing one.
I hung a bag of vials, notebook, and lens on the chairback, and, with a final rush, climbed on the seat and curled up as comfortably as possible. All around the tins, swarming to the very edge of the liquid, were the angry hosts.
He's going to say that the traitor is some one inside our circle." Byng started, and his hands clutched at the chairback, then he became quiet and watchful. "And whom does Fleming or you suspect?" he asked, with lowering eyelids and a slumbering malice in his eyes.
Then he looked up, with the ghost of his accustomed smile. "Well, what do you make out of it all, Whittenden? You've heard and seen the worst of me. Now what next? Is this losing my grip the final stage of the whole bad matter?" Whittenden flung up one lean hand to grasp the chairback above his head. Then he smoked in silence for a time, his clear eyes fixed on Opdyke's face. At last, he spoke.
The person of Fulkerson had got into the room long before he reached this question, and had planted itself astride a chair. Fulkerson looked over the chairback, now at March, and now at the elder Dryfoos as he spoke. March answered him. "I guess we must have been waiting for you, Fulkerson. At any rate, we hadn't got to the scolding yet." "Why, I didn't suppose Mr.
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