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He tried at once to get in his sails, but the surf was running very strong, and presently a heavy sea broke clean over her. Then came confusion and dismay: the flapping of the wet, half-lowered sails, and the whipping of the slack ropes, making all effort useless. There was no chance of her-holding. Foot by foot she was being driven towards the rocks. Sailors stood motionless on the shore.
Several uniformed officials now invaded the box, but Hamar who, as well as Kelson, was with Curtis fixing them with his big dark eyes that gleamed eerily in the half-lowered lights of the house for the stage only at that moment was fully illuminated held them in check, and they hung back not knowing what to do.
As she spoke she watched Virginia's face through half-lowered lashes, and was certain that it changed. There could no longer be any doubt on that subject. For some reason Virginia did not want her on the yacht. "I should hate you to be a martyr," said the girl uncomfortably. I would keep on your room and the sitting-room, and the victoria, and you should have my maid and your own horse.
He glanced at Stafford and knit his brows, but dropped heavily into a chair, and sat with stony face and half-lowered lids. He had scarcely taken his seat when Howard entered in his quiet fashion, and he went and stood just behind Stafford. "I was just telling the meeting, Lord Highcliffe, that I was afraid we were in a bad way." said Griffenberg.
"Who would marry me?" she said, under her breath, with a scornful look, under half-lowered lids, into space. For answer he gave her an odd glance one that lived in her memory for many and many a day. "Ah, Norma Norma Norma!" he said quickly, half laughingly. Then his expression changed, and his smile died away. "I have something to bear," he said, with a glance upward toward Alice's windows.
Falconer, who stood a little apart, apparently drinking with the others, but really with care and moderation, watched him under half-lowered lids; and presently he moved round to where Stafford leant against the table with his champagne-glass in his hand, and touching him on the arm, said: "I hear them enquiring for you in the ball-room, Stafford."
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