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As the idea of a spring came into his mind, he remembered Estelle's description of the deep-toned roar she had heard. He put his hand on the cold stone of the building. There was still a vibrant quivering of the rock. It was weaker than before, but was still noticeable. He drew back from the rock and looked up into the sky.
Then Nurse brought a big bowl filled with darting blue flames. The courageous shut one or both eyes, stuck in a fearful finger and extracted a fig or a fat raisin. Egg-nog and roasted Italian chestnuts completed Estelle's entertainment save for the holiday dinner of roast beef and plum pudding to follow on the morrow.
"Do!" he snorted, "Write and tell 'em when they've got any kind of job on the size of six-pence I'll be in it! And if not Tibet's about as useful to draw up a report on as ice in the hunting season and I'm off in March and that's that!" A tear rolled down Estelle's cheek and splashed on the tablecloth; she trembled harder until her teaspoon rattled. Winn looked at her.
"Have you made up your mind yet, Estelle?" "No, Ruth! I haven't. I don't know what to do." The two girls were in Estelle's room.
Estelle's shop became to him vastly different from a mere place for buying and selling; and presently he was looking on the other side, the human side, of all the shops and businesses and material activities, great and small.
Truest wisdom might hold a severe course of correction very desirable; but sentiment and public opinion would be likely to condemn him if he did nothing. People would say that he had taken a harsh revenge on his own, erring child. He fumed at a situation intolerable and was finally moved to accept Estelle's advice.
Arthur had lost his fear of what their fate would be in his absorbing interest in what he saw. He was staring out of the window, wide-eyed, lost in the sight before him. At Estelle's cry, however, he reluctantly left the window and patted her shoulder awkwardly. "I don't know how to explain it," he said uncomfortably, "but it's obvious that my first surmise was all wrong.
"No, I I'll be all right presently," said Estelle in a broken voice. "Just let me alone a little while I mean stay with me talk to me tell me something. I want to get control of my nerves." Ruth did not seem to know what to say, but Alice pulled a small bottle from her pocket, and held it under Estelle's nose. "It's the loveliest new scent," she said. "I bought a sample in town."
Murray's great chagrin and mortification her son had positively declined going to meet his cousin, had been absent since breakfast, and proved himself shamefully derelict in the courtesy demanded of him. It was almost dark when the quick gallop of his horse announced his return, and, as he passed the window on his way to the stables, Edna noticed a sudden change in Estelle's countenance.
Estelle's warm heart would fain have taken leave of the few who had been kind to her; but this was impossible, for the women were in hiding, and she could only leave one or two kerchiefs sent from Algiers, hoping Zuleika might have one of them. Ibrahim insisted on her being veiled as closely as a Mohammedan woman as she passed out.
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