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And although he would fain have spoken further, he could not: for that brief moment in which her eyes held his half-commanding wholly trusting was like the sealing of a vow to do her bidding. Then as she turned away, the echo of a name floated towards him "Aluisi!" so spoken as no one had ever uttered it before.
Instead she had rested both elbows on the table and was looking at her companion with the half-pleading, half-commanding expression that both Mollie and Betty knew so well. "Promise not to say anything until I have finished?" she began coaxingly. "For you see it is to explain why I want to stay with you that made me write to ask you to make this engagement with me for this afternoon."
He spat contemptuously and began to cram a blackened pipe to overflowing. The boat had landed and already the crowd was moving up the apron. Fred and his companion felt themselves urged forward by the pressure of this human tide. "Come and have some coffee with me," Fred heard the man at his side say in a half-commanding tone. "My name is Storch. What shall I call you?" "Anything you like!"
I recognised their tender, half-entreating, half-commanding gaze, I knew the little fleeting, wistful smile which said so little and yet so much I felt that the striving, ambitious spirit of this man had sought mine as the help and completion of his own uplifting, and that I had misunderstood him and turned from him at the crucial moment when all might have been well.
What of her dreams and her hopes, her belief in justice and goodness and decency? If he takes those and destroys them, he'd better have had a mill-stone about his neck. But nobody has a word to say till he touches her dividends then he's a calculating brute who has married her for her fortune!" He had come close again, facing her with outstretched hands, half-commanding, half in appeal.
Perhaps he even believed he held a charmed life, for he boasted that he had been fired at thirty times and only his hair had been touched. In personal appearance he was tall and slender, with rather a military bearing. He had an impressive, half-persuasive, half-commanding manner.
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