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A moment he stood there, holding the light so the girl could see; then, impassive as before, he extinguished the blaze and returned the lantern to its place. They were half way back to the house before the girl spoke; then, detainingly, she laid her hand upon his arm. "You mean you've let him go already, How?" she asked. "Yes. I didn't fasten him this evening." They walked on so.
He stood motionless, waiting until they drew nearer, and then he lifted his head, which he had bent sidewise the better to hear their almost soundless footsteps. Pearl, seeing that her interview with Flick was soon to be interrupted, stopped short in the path and laid one hand detainingly upon his arm.
Once in that tormented journey there was a sudden jingle of metal, like rattling handcuffs, in the man's ear and a heavy hand fell detainingly on his shoulder and he squeaked like a caught shore-bird and shrunk away from under the rough grips of a truckman who had yanked him clear of a lurching truck horse tangled in its own traces.
But the man on his right removed his cigar from his lips and said in an undertone, "No, sit down, stay where you are;" and the elderly gentleman at Arkwright's side laid his hand detainingly on his arm. "Oh, you won't take Mr. Arkwright away from us, Stanton?" he asked, smiling. Stanton shrugged his shoulders and sat down again, and there was a moment's pause.
Uncle William glanced down on them from his height. "Mebbe not," he said gently, "but I reckon she'd hate to see ye lookin' like that. It's about all I can stan' to see ye, myself." The girl looked up from her copying. Uncle William stood in the doorway, beaming on her. She got up quickly. "You are early." Uncle William held out a hand detainingly. "You set right down and go to work.
A dozen steps more and they came to a stair down which a light shone. The Frenchman's hand fell detainingly on Howland's arm, and when a moment later they reached the top of the stairs all had disappeared but Jean and the bearded man. Dawn was breaking, and a pale light fell through the two windows of the room they had entered. On a table burned a lamp, and near the table were several chairs.
"It's ten miles off," said Dick shortly, taking the steps at a jump. "I don't care if it's twenty I'm going. Sir Redmond, wait for me!" "Be-atrice!" cried her mother detainingly; but Beatrice was gone to get ready.
And what makes it worse is, that it is the massacre of the innocents. That is what I liked best of what you said in that great speech, the part about the women and children." He reached out his hands detainingly, and then drew back as though in apology for having already kept the great man so long waiting in the cold.
She spoke almost imploringly, and in an excited tone, which the mere trying on of a dress did not warrant. "Oh, you dear despot! I suppose you must be obeyed." Bertha snatched the ivy-garlanded dress, and bounded away. Madeleine would have followed, but Maurice seized her hand detainingly. "One moment, Madeleine, grant me one moment!" "Not now. Bertha will be waiting for me!"
As the girl came up, with her face pale and grief-stricken, they drew back on either side opening passageway for her, and Dorothy went directly to the bed. Caleb, though, halted at the threshold in response to a hand laid detainingly on his fringed sleeve.
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