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Down went Denys on his knees, and drew off her shoe, and tried the new ones on the white skin devoutly. Finding she had a willing victim, she abused the opportunity, tried first one pair, then another, then the first again, and so on, balancing and hesitating for about half an hour, to Gerard's disgust, and Denys's weak delight.
From my own experience of her I am convinced that she would very soon presume upon it." He paused. Mrs. Lorimer said nothing. She was sitting motionless with her soft eyes on the fire. Mr. Lorimer looked down at the brown head at his knee with growing severity. "You will, therefore, Adelaide, in deference to my wish if for no other reason discontinue this use of Mrs. Denys's Christian name." Mrs.
The officers, on reaching "The Silver Lion", found the birds were flown. They went down to the river, and from intelligence they received there, started up the bank in hot pursuit. This temporary escape the friends owed to Denys's good sense and observation.
Is that Gracie's frock you're mending? What an awful tear!" She came and stood by Mrs. Denys's side, speaking in a low, rather monotonous voice. A heavy strand of her hair fell over the work as she bent to look; she tossed it back with another sigh. "Gracie is such a tomboy," she said. "It's a pity, isn't it?" "My dear, you're tired," said Mrs. Denys gently.
A stalwart confidence in God, and faith in the happy outcome of life, will do more to lubricate the creaking machinery of our daily affairs than anything else. "Courage, ami, le diable est mort!" "Courage, friend, the devil is dead!" was Denys's constant countersign, which he would give to everybody. "They don't understand it," he would say, "but it wakes them up.
"Ah!" said Denys, "above all, pray them to forgive me for bringing you into this guet-apens!" And now they grasped hands and looked in one another's eyes oh, such a look! Denys's hand was cold, and Gerard's warm. They took their posts. Denys blew out the candle. "We must keep silence now."
They drank the new bottle, shook hands, adhered to custom, and parted on opposite routes. This delay, however, somewhat put out Denys's calculations, and evening surprised them ere they reached a little town he was making for, where was a famous hotel.
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