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She told him, haltingly, of the Kashmir plan; and he listened, half incredulous, leaning back again; thinking: "She's plucky; but still, all she troubled about really was to save her face." And she, noting his impatient frown, was thinking: "He's like a sensitive plant charged with gunpowder. Is it the touchiness of ?" "I'm afraid I'd have kicked at that." His voice broke in upon her thought.
She repeated herself haltingly because, as Ford held back from approaching her, a sudden spasm passed over his face, while he hung his head, and compressed his lips in a way that made him seem surprisingly boyish all at once, and touched that maternal tenderness in her that had always formed such a large part of her yearning over him.
The invalid shivered, then said more haltingly than before: "I don't like to think of England, it makes me sad; but Selincourt is a pretty name a very pretty name indeed!" Mr. Selincourt is Indiscreet When Katherine reached home that night after doing the "backache portage" it seemed to be the last straw to her burden of endurance to be told that Mr. Selincourt had arrived.
With you footloose, and all the world before you it'll die out presently." "No," he flared. "I deny that. I'm not an impressionable boy. I know myself." He paused, and the grip of his hands on hers tightened till the pain of it ran to her elbows. Then his fingers relaxed a little. "Oh, I know," he said haltingly. "I know it's got to be that way. I have to go my road and leave you to yours.
The basket was full of fruit by now; Margot lifted it by one handle; George Elgood lifted it by the other. They walked down the sunlit garden into the house. "Er " he began haltingly at last. "How do you think it has gone?" "You mean the " "Picnic! Yes. My first entertainment. I feel responsible. Think they enjoyed it at all?" "I'm sure of it. Immensely! They thawed wonderfully. Think of the duet!
Out in the path, under the oldest tree of all, she dropped his hand and faced him. "Jethro," she said, "we can't do it. We can't get married." He looked at her amazed. She seemed to be telling good news instead of bad. She gazed up at him smilingly. He could not understand. "Don't you care about me?" he asked at length, haltingly; and again Dilly smiled at him in the same warm confidence.
The tortured look in her blue eyes aroused all Kathleen's sympathy. Haltingly, tremblingly, bit by bit, Evelyn told of the temptation to use her sister's hard-earned money for fine clothes, and the gulf of deception and dishonesty into which she had plunged by yielding to it. Kathleen listened without comment.
As they scurried off through the tall wet grass to a less exposed station, a solitary figure came haltingly through the little gate. It was the head-waiter, and, as he carried no lantern, he was compelled to light matches now and then; after getting his bearings he would dart resolutely on for a dozen paces before lighting another.
It was slowly and almost haltingly. "I have done amiss," he said. "None can better know than I how much amiss I have done. I repent me from the bottom of my heart. But I repent not of those things for which I suffered in prison, for which I thought I might be called upon to lay down my life. I repent me that I, having put mine hand to the plough, did look back.
"Muriel," came haltingly from the parched lips, "there's something I want to say to you about Nick." Muriel felt the blood surging at her temples as the faint words reached her. She would have given anything to know that he was out of earshot. "Won't you say it in the morning, darling?" she said, almost with pleading in her voice. "It's so late now." It was not late.
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