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Liaison!... Liaison!... The foreign term beat again and again against Bonbright's consciousness before it gained admission. Used in connection with Ruth Frazer, with his relations with Ruth Frazer, it was dead, devoid of meaning, conveyed no meaning to his brain. "Liaison, sir!... Liaison?" he said, fumblingly. "I can find a plainer term if you insist."
And I can tell from your manner that I've done the right thing." "Well, I don't know. I can't tell." I crossed the room to her. "Who is it?" "Oh, God, no; let's drop it. I can't bear any more now. Good night." She stretched her hand out fumblingly, but since she was looking at the floor, she could not find mine, and both our hands circled helplessly round each other for a moment.
From it he took a bottle of whisky. Pretending that the cork was stuck he worked with it fumblingly to get time in which to think. He would take a drink, feign that it choked him, stagger to the head of the bed, stumble on to the pillow and then come up with the revolver in his hand. Then he would have them! He lifted the bottle to his mouth and gulped.
An unreasoning haste had possession of me, and I worked fumblingly and badly, like a man with fear behind him. Yet I was not afraid. I was consumed by the feeling that I must get back to camp and to the woman without delay. Kneeling to my work with my back to the forest, strange noises came behind and begged attention. But I would not look up.
Assuredly Allah hath spread the cloak of stupidity and sloth over this fellow," he said to himself, as his janitor rolled over, and lazily muttering "Oh very well, anything for a little peace," to the sepoy's intense delight fumblingly untied one of his hands. What followed was like a streak of lightning from heaven.
"Don't you want to smell them?" He moved his lips without replying, and she leaned down, her eyes full of the utmost compassionate tenderness and held the violets to him. He raised a hand with evident effort and fumblingly took her wrist. He pressed the wet flowers against his face. "It's a shame to bring them here, Lady Carfax," he said, letting her go. "Take them wear them!
The 'scrap of writin'' fumblingly inserted into the packet of cakes was no writing of Ted's, but a crumpled, greasy one-pound Bank of New South Wales note; one of his little store, useless to me at St. Peter's yes; but, even as my eyes pricked to the emotion of gratitude, some inner consciousness told me my friend's gift would yet prove of very real use to me outside the Orphanage, one day.
I am not subtle enough to describe it, but in the steadily cumulating satisfaction of first-class prose there seems to be something that speaks direct to the brain, unmarred by the claims of the senses, the emotions. I meditate much, ignorantly and fumblingly, on the modes and purposes of writing.
"Do I look ill?" querulously. "You are burning with fever." She drew the cool palm of her hand across his heated forehead. "Jehan!" called the marquis. The touch of that hand had caused him an indescribable sensation. "I am here, Monsieur," replied Jehan. Sister Benie leaned back out of the sunlight. "A pitcher of water; I am thirsty." Jehan took the pitcher fumblingly.
Fanny, huddled in a chair in her bedroom, looked up into the plump, kindly face of the woman who was bending over her. Then she stood up, docilely, and walked toward the stairs with a heavy, stumbling step. "I'd put down my veil if I were you," said the neighbor woman. And reached up for the black folds that draped Fanny's hat. Fanny's fingers reached for them too, fumblingly.
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