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"He wants to speak to you," she said, indicating Wollaston with a turn of her hand. Miss Slome looked inquiringly at Wollaston, who stood before her like a culprit, blushing and shuffling, and yet with a sort of doggedness. "Well, what is it, Wollaston?" she asked, patronizingly. "I came back to ask you if you would have me?" said Wollaston, and his voice was hardly audible.
She did not seem to notice the boyish doggedness of his speech, except so far as it might have increased her inconsequent and nervously pitched levity. "Then suppose we speak of the Misses Hernandez, with whom you scarcely exchanged a word at dinner, and whom I invited for you and your fluent Spanish. They are charming girls, even if they are a little stupid. But what can I do?
"Higginson, is that his name?" Louise asked. "Well, he is a good man. When he started the engineer using the chloroform and me arranging things, he was swallowing hard. I saw he was terribly nervous and keyed up. But he went right at the operation without faltering and with a sort of doggedness. As if nothing should stop him. I myself was doing rather mistily what he wanted.
And, eating out his own heart, on that bitter march back from Kumassi to Cape Coast Castle, he had eyes for the splendid doggedness of the British soldier: "In truth, that march down was in its way as fine an exhibition of British stamina and pluck as any that has been seen of late years.
He wondered if he was doing all right; he wondered if Shorty was pleased with him. The funk seemed to have gone: in its place had come a kind of dazed doggedness, while a fury of impatience to justify himself and his powers of leadership shook him at times. Surely to God they could go faster than this cursed crawl. Why was the barrage lifting so slowly?
This family connection, whom he both hated and trusted, was a rather thickset, very neatly dressed man of twenty-three, who had been mature, serious, and responsible for eight years. His fair, grave face, with its short thin beard, showed plainly his leading qualities of industry, order, conscientiousness, and doggedness. It showed, too, his mild benevolence.
Burton, marvelling at the change in her manner. "Didn't you say once that he was uncle to Lord Buckfast?" inquired Mrs. Dutton, casually. "Yes," said Mr. Burton, with unnecessary doggedness; "I did." "The idea of an admiral staying with you!" said Mrs. Dutton. "Reg'lar old sea-dog," said Mr. Burton again; "and, besides, he don't want it known. It's a secret between us three, Mrs. Dutton."
She did not know how to break the silence. The heart within her was leaping like a wild thing in captivity. "Why are you here?" she said at last, and she knew that her voice shook. He answered her instantly, with a certain doggedness. "I want to know what Capper has been saying to you." She started almost guiltily. Her nerves were on edge that night. "You may as well tell me," he said coolly.
But with British doggedness they went on trying, and at length succeeded. Raleigh lay in the Tower of London, a prisoner accused of treason. All his lands were taken from him. Virginia, which had been granted to him by Queen Elizabeth was the King's once more to give to whom he would.
So Duchemin did nothing to discourage his voluntary shadow; but looking back from time to time, never failed to see that squat, round-shouldered figure in the middle distance of the landscape, following him with the doggedness of Fate. Toward evening, however, of a sudden between two glances the fellow disappeared as completely and mysteriously as if he had fallen or dived into an aven.
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