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That's where they got the fever which finished Hank. So you can understand," concluded the third officer, "that Mr. Winfield isn't in what you can call a sunny mood. If I were you, I'd go and talk to someone else, if conversation's what you need." Kirk stood motionless at the rail, thinking. It was not what was past that occupied his thoughts, as the third officer had supposed; it was the future.
She answered all the questions that the aunts kindly asked her for conversation's sake, and she tried to think of ways of seeming interested in return. "Can I climb the cherry-tree this summer, Aunt Barbara?" she asked once.
He knew Lin at once, and held out his hand, and his greeting was hearty. "It took a week for my robes to catch up with me," he said, laughing. Then, in a little while, "How was the East?" "First-rate," said Lin, not looking at him. He was shy of the conversation's taking a moral turn.
"There, it does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out." Mrs. Todd gave a funny little laugh.
'Pray, Mr Brick, said Martin, turning to him, and asking a question more for conversation's sake than from any feeling of interest in its subject, 'who is that; he was going to say 'young' but thought it prudent to eschew the word 'that very short gentleman yonder, with the red nose? 'That is Pro fessor Mullit, sir, replied Jefferson. 'May I ask what he is professor of? asked Martin.
A clerk was sent out for a parcel of pastries and returned with an enormous bag, and there was no tablecloth, nor no proper tea-table, and the children, much excited, were immensely entertained. Easy, while they were there, to make them the conversation's centre. But the meal ended and then became most evident her anxiety to keep the chatter on the children.
If she thought of him as a preacher at all it was a preacher whose conception was rather that of a knight serving a divinely royal master than a prosecutor thinking in terms of dogma. As an experiment in psychology, the luncheon was interesting because of the riffles and undercurrents that passed below the conversation's even tenor.
"He bade me go to Sikaram where my village is and bring him a hundred men for his lashkar. He says he has her special favor. Wait and watch, I say! "Has he money?" asked King, apparently drawing a bow at a venture for conversation's sake. But there is an art in asking artless questions. "Aye! The liar says the Germans gave it to him! He swears they will send more. Who are the Germans?
He says good-by to his cottage, and goes off to camp with a small army of Mexicans, who, proof against the toils of the day, make night crazy with singing, dancing, and uncontrollable hilarity. He is as much concerned about the weather as a sailor or one in conversation's straits. His terror is the long, cold storm which covers the grass with a hopeless coating of ice.
It was a sharp snap of the conversation's thread, and at the same time our three friends realized that they had been careless in not keeping a better look-out. They let fall the meat they had not yet finished eating and seized their guns. Five or six dark forms were moving toward them across a little point of the prairie that cut into the wood a quarter of a mile distant.
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