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As he spoke she slipped suddenly to her knees and lay with her face hidden on the old log, while her smothered sobs ran in long shudders through her body. A murmur reached him presently, and it seemed to him that she was praying softly in her clasped hands; but when in a new horror of himself he made a movement to rise and slip away, she looked up and gently touched him detainingly on the arm.
Quickly recovering her serenity, however, she saluted him slightly, and, moving her oars in unison, was on the point of departure. Stirred by an impulse he could not resist, he laid one hand detainingly on the rim of her boat. "Are you going now?" he asked. She raised her eyebrows in some little surprise and smiled. "Going?" she repeated. "Why, yes. I shall be late in getting home as it is."
Alec, still watching, saw Ralph Bently make a move to rise, and Avery's hand was laid detainingly on his arm. She was whispering and shaking her head; but Ralph was not to be deterred by any remonstrance. He was on his feet, exclaiming: "Mr. President, pardon the interruption. There is some mistake in that report! The collection should amount to far more than four dollars and ninety-six cents.
Closing the door behind them, he went to the stove and began to stir the fire industriously. Elizabeth saw that she must have the difficulty over at once or her courage would wilt. Setting Jack on the floor, she went to Nathan and put her hand on his arm detainingly. "You have fire enough, Uncle Nate. Let me talk to you." "Well?" he said briefly.
As he did so, the hand which had lain upon the coverlet shifted to his arm detainingly. "How were you thinking of going, son?" A look of surprise crept into the boy's blue eyes. A question like this, with its obvious answer, was unusual from his matter-of-fact mother. He glanced at her gravely. "I'm going afoot, mamma." "It's ten miles to town, Benjamin." "But you and I walked it once together.
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