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Lois stood quite erect in the midst of the children. "I don't think I need any vacation," said she, smiling constrainedly. She pushed gently past Mrs. Babcock, with the children at her heels. "You'd better take a little one," Mrs. Babcock called after her. Lois kept on as if she did not hear. Her face was flushed, and her head seemed full of beating pulses.
At the banks and trust companies there were hurriedly-called directors' meetings, where men sat about long mahogany tables, and talked constrainedly about the immediate future and the vast changes which the death of this great man would necessarily bring. In the political clubs, his passing was discussed with bated breath.
But no one in the village or from any of the camps ever admitted having seen this Kells. Had fear kept them silent? Joan was amazed that Roberts evidently knew this man. Kells dismounted and offered his hand. Roberts took it and shook it constrainedly. "Where did we meet last?" asked Kells.
'I think ye both look better, Mrs. Curtiss said. She glanced at Siegmund. He smiled constrainedly. 'I thought ye looked so worn when you came, she said sympathetically. 'He had been working hard, said Helena, also glancing at him. He bent his head, and was whistling without making any sound. 'Ay, sympathized the little woman. 'And it's a very short time for you.
"Real pleasant." The young man looked kindly, although a little constrainedly, down into his companion's face. "I hear you haven't been very well," said he. "I hope you feel better since you came to Elliot?" "Yes, thank you; I guess I do," replied Lois. Francis still looked at her. Her little face bent, faintly rosy, under her hat.
Varney, though he had grounds for animosity which Peter never even guessed, laughed aloud. But it was a brief laugh, which quickly faded. "And he's never been seen or heard of from that day to this? Well, for my part," he went on, rather constrainedly, "I'm almost ready to believe the man's a myth a mere personification of evil an allegorical name for the powers of darkness " "Myth!" cried Peter.
There was the briefest of hesitations; then, a little constrainedly, Bertram asked: "And you said you you never had cared for Arkwright, didn't you?" For the second time in her life Billy was thankful that Bertram's question had turned upon her love for Arkwright, not Arkwright's love for her.
She was up and out in the cook-shed, half-frightened of their friendly eyes, before they could say any more. That is, to her. "Gosh, that's some wife of yours!" said one of them to Francis, who was a little in the rear of the others. "But ain't she a little thing?" Francis simply said "Yes" constrainedly. He had heard all that before.
'I won't bandy words, he said constrainedly in his coldest tone, 'with this infamous woman whom you have brought here on purpose to insult me; but I must request you to ask her to leave the house immediately. Your mother's home is no place to which to bring people of such a character.
"What! to be turned out of it again by the advent of a young wife? No, never, Lionel." Lionel laughed constrainedly this time. "I may not be bringing home a young wife for this many and many a year to come." "If you never brought one, I would not make my home at Verner's Pride," she resumed, in the same impulsive voice. "Live in the house by favour, that ought to have been mine by right?
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