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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Only I wonder I mean I can't see " and she paused, staring at the bottle with a thoughtful sort of frown. "I believe I'll hold it on my lap." I was looking at the bottle too, where she held it with both fur-gloved hands; and I forgot to wonder if she were lying about it or not.
The front door, opening directly into the living-room, with its long table, and its flashing fire lighting the eager faces round it nobody had thought of or bothered to make any other light in that room was flung open by a fur-gloved hand, and a large figure appeared in the doorway. A ruddy face looked in upon the scene.
It was Livingstone himself who met the guests at the door, and the driver, in his shaggy coat, must have been an old friend from the smiling way in which he nodded and waved his fur-gloved hands to him, as he helped Mrs. Clark out tenderly and took Kitty into his arms.
There was nothing to distract attention from what might be going on within, and all eyes were on the two burly captains who entered at 8.30, fur-capped, fur-gloved, in huge overcoats and arctics. The wind had begun, even earlier than usual, to whine and stir as it swept down from the bleak northwest, and the mercury had dropped some ten degrees since the previous evening.
Rosalie was enchanted, Delancy mildly so, but when a deeper trail ploughed the snow, running parallel to their progress, he regarded it with more animation. "Pig," said Geraldine briefly. "Wild?" he inquired. "Of course," she smiled; "and probably a good big boar." Rosalie thrilled and unconsciously rested her fur-gloved hand on Delancy's sleeve.
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