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Then suddenly her mystification was complete. Their eyes met, not as before, but very near, so close had he come to her, still smiling. And instantly, instinctively, she lowered hers; for she felt as if she had been caught peering through a window at something she had no right to see. Yet the next instant she was looking again, half-guiltily, but irresistibly drawn.
"Why, to drop in on a lone woman unexpected, an' find her sittin' down to roast suckin' pig . . . it's it's like Solomon an' the lilies." Captain Cai flushed half-guiltily. "I didn't say I called quite unexpectedly, did I?" "To break the ice, was your words." "You see, I'd happened to meet Mrs Bosenna the evenin' before, an' hullo!"
And when she found, of all people, Rudolph Musgrave standing by her husband's grave, as in a sort of puzzled and yet reverent meditation, she was, and somehow as half-guiltily, assuring herself there was no possible reason for the repugnance nay, the rage, which a mere glimpse of trudging, painted and flamboyant Clarice Pendomer had kindled.
"I promised Mary never to " Griggs broke in on him. "But a chance like this! Anyhow, come around to the back room at Blinkey's to-night, and we'll have a talk. Will you?" "What time?" Garson asked hesitatingly, tempted. "Make it early, say nine," was the answer. "Will you?" "I'll come," Garson replied, half-guiltily. And in the same moment Mary reentered.
I had started, half-guiltily, I suppose, when the door opened; and Runnels, who had known me and my people ever since my father had moved in from the farm to give us children the advantage of the town school, shook his grizzled head sorrowfully.
When she thought of Osborn's return, as she did now and then with a curious mixture of feelings, she knew, half-guiltily, that somehow she would grudge him a share in those pleasant evenings by the fire.
She had already entered upon the maiden's land of dreams of romance. The men who had hitherto courted her, half-laughingly, half-guiltily, knowing that she was a child, had at last dropped all subterfuge. To them she was a "girl," with all that this word means to males not too scrupulous of the rights of women. "I oughtn't to quit now when business is so good," Mrs.
They both started, half-guiltily. It was midnight. He at once arose to go, apologizing for the lateness of his visit. "I would like to see you again, Miss Braxton, before I go North," he said, as he prepared to leave. She had risen with him, and they were both standing beside the mantel. Her face paled.
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