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Ask him," he said, pointing to the doctor, who mechanically took a fine Havana from the case and half-grudgingly handed it to the lady, who hurried back with it to Irving Stanley. To break it up and place it in Willie's ear was the work of a moment, and ere long the fierce outcries ceased as Willie grew easier and lay quietly in Irving Stanley's arms.
Though," she added with wistfulness, twisting her soft mouth, "though I can't ever quite see why God should care much for a Sylvie Doone." She touched the lids of her closed eyes. "I wonder why it doesn't worry me more not to be able to see. Now that the pain's gone, I don't seem to care much." "Thank God. Perhaps, though," he added half-grudgingly, "in a few days you'll see again." She smiled.
"You're worth a good many," he said to Merryon, half-grudgingly, "but you can't work miracles. Besides, you've got " He broke off abruptly. "How's your wife?" "That's what I don't know, sir." Feverishly Merryon made answer. "I left her last night. She was well then. But since I sent down an orderly over an hour ago. He's not come back." "Confound it!" said the colonel, testily.
"Do you own it?" She hesitated. "Do you own it?" he insisted sternly. And, yielding to a sudden impulse that overwhelmed all reason, she threw herself unreservedly upon his mercy. "Yes, I own it." He stood silent for several seconds after the admission, while she waited with a thumping heart. At last, half-grudgingly it seemed to her, he spoke.
Johnson, holding the page to his eyes, growls over this stanza, and half-grudgingly praises that. I had spent perhaps the pleasantest day which the fates vouchsafed me during my sojourn in England; and here I was back again in Slough Station, ready to return to the noisy haunts of men. The train came rattling up, and the day with Gray was over.
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