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Stone was dabbing at his mouth with a handkerchief, a task which precluded anything in the shape of conversation; so Robinson replied that Mike's study was the first you came to on the right of the corridor at the top of the stairs. "Thanks," said Adair. "You don't happen to know if he's in, I suppose?" "He went up with Smith a quarter of an hour ago. I don't know if he's still there."
She sat a long time in the attic, looking at it, just as if she was trying to imagine what living in it was like, and she kept dabbing her eyes with a little lace handkerchief, and then she got up and sighed and said, 'Poor Beth! poor Beth! several times. She talked to me a lot about Mrs. Maclure. She seemed to know all about me, and treated me as if we'd been old friends.
"I can't bear to think of poor Miss Mary," she sobbed, late on Saturday morning, when Judy found her crouched up in the window-seat overlooking the garden. "What?" "I can't bear to think about poor Miss Mary," repeated Anne, dabbing her eyes with her wet handkerchief. "What's the matter?" asked Launcelot, as Judy stood speechless.
She was more than ever like a little girl as she looked up at him, her eyes worshiping him, her lips trying to smile, and one little hand dabbing her eyes with a tiny handkerchief that was already wet and crushed. "You you don't seem very glad to see me, Derry." "I I'm just stunned," he managed to say. "You see " "It IS a shocking surprise, Derry. I meant it to be.
He comforted her as one comforts a child, stroking clumsily her hair, murmuring trivialities without meaning, letting her emotion relieve itself. After awhile she recovered somewhat her control of herself and sat up away from him, dabbing at her eyes with a handkerchief dampened into a tiny wad.
"Why did I lie to save him?" she breathed, as she flung herself down on her knees by the bedside and buried her face. "Why?" She did not need to ask the question. Her heart had given her the answer. She knew she had lied to save the man she loved. There came a knock at the door, and she started up, hastily dabbing her eyes and trying to control herself.
There, you little thing, I was only in fun, dabbing her sister's forehead; 'but don't you be a silly puss, and don't you think flightily and eloquently about degenerate impossibilities. There! Now, I'll go back to myself. 'Dear Fanny, let me say first, that I would far rather we worked for a scanty living again than I would see you rich and married to Mr Sparkler.
"Devil take those friends who think they have a right to preach to you," said Lousteau, opening the door of the bedroom, where he found Madame de la Baudraye sunk in an armchair and dabbing her eyes with an embroidered handkerchief. "Oh, why did I come here?" sobbed she. "Good Heavens, why indeed? Etienne, I am not so provincial as you think me. You are making a fool of me."
He stopped dead in his tracks when he came unexpectedly upon her, become suddenly awkward, embarrassed, a moment uncertain, but yielding swiftly to an impulse to run for it. "Come here, Bud Lee!" commanded Judith sharply, dabbing at her eyes. "I want to talk with you."
Archer released her spasmodic grip on Stratton's flannel shirt and fumbled for her handkerchief. "I'm a fool to to waste time like this," she faltered, dabbing her eyes with the crumpled square of cambric. "I think you're rather wonderful," returned Buck gently. He helped her to a chair. "Sit down here, and when you're able, tell us just what happened."
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