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Tell her I said to, and come over to the office building. See?" He tried to tell her his gratitude, but instead he babbled again of how much she was like Tessie Kearns. They parted at the gate. With a last wondering scrutiny of him, a last reminder of her very minute directions, she suddenly illumined him with rays of a compassion that was somehow half-laughter.
As they stared with the fascination of horror, the partially open door was pushed farther open and a dim gray form glided around its edge. Joyce clutched Cynthia, gave one little shriek, half-relief and half-laughter, and gasped: "Oh, Cynthia! It's Goliath!" It was, indeed, Goliath. He was an enormous cat, and his purr was as oversized as his body.
Thornton saw her beautiful eyes lifted to her father, full of light, half-laughter and half-love, as this bit of pantomime went on between the two, unobserved, as they fancied, by any.
There was a little thrill of pathetic half-laughter in the instrument. "Bibbs I wanted to just to see if you " "Yes Mary?" "I was looking when you were so nearly run over. I saw it, Bibbs. They said you hadn't been hurt, they thought, but I wanted to know for myself." "No, no, I wasn't hurt at all Mary. It was father who came nearer it. He saved me." "Yes, I saw; but you had fallen.
The veins of his forehead swelled; he walked about the room with senseless violence, striking his fist against furniture and walls. It would have relieved him to sob and cry like a thwarted child, but only a harsh sound, half-groan, half-laughter, burst from his throat.
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