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Not until she came to bid him good-night, with a lingering handclasp, her palm cleaving to his like the reluctant severance of lips, did she tell him that she was going away almost immediately. "But I had to make sure first that you were really alive, and still Ban," she said. It was many months before he saw her again.
Sincerity rang in his voice and his face was full of contrition. Tabitha's resentment was wholly conquered and her last fear vanished. She gravely extended her hand to meet his and the hatchet was buried in that handclasp. "Come now and see Mamma. She's lying down because she has been awfully sick. That's what we came here for, and she is anxious to see you."
He rose, and she rose with him. The others came around and he took leave of them. His handclasp was all that Georgiana had for farewell, for when she lifted her eyes she let them rest on his finely moulded chin.
The silence was so intense that they heard each other breathing, and the expression on James' face was so rapt and noble that even Donald's stately beauty was for the moment less attractive. Then he walked towards Donald and said, "Now give me your hand, McFarlane, and I'll take it gladly." And that was a handclasp that meant to both men what no words could have expressed.
Unfortunately, though, the other five began to grow very jealous, and they kept such a watch on Anne and her friend, that the poor lovers had no chance to get away and talk by themselves, or exchange even a look, or a kiss, or a handclasp. However, when people are determined they usually succeed in the end, and one day Anne and her handsome lover managed to slip away unobserved.
Another handclasp and Lord Mortimer was walking away with the principal at his side, who was saying, "Your Excellency, you have greatly encouraged that boy; I think he always felt terribly that he was a half-bree half-blood. He would have loved to claim either all Cree or all French ancestry."
"Will you do me a favor, sir?" inquired Dave. "A dozen," agreed Henley instantly. "Then, sir, cut the apology and confine it to the hand-shake." In another moment they were ready for hasty departure. But Dave had to wait for a quick, hearty handclasp from each of the upper class men.
In fact, his desire for Rachel seemed at an end, now that he had mentioned it to her. A handclasp, a silence trembling with emotion, a sudden light in the heart properly speaking, this was all there was to love. The rest was undoubtedly a make-believe. As he walked out to post the letter he tried to recall the emotions or ideas that had inspired him to marry Anna.
Her beauty her mere presence swept him past the preliminary fears and doubts. His handclasp tightened and his face drew resistlessly to hers. Then their hands went suddenly cold. "You know, don't you, Jane, darling?" he murmured. "Yes," she answered after a moment, softly, securely. He crushed her in his strong arms; all the world seemed to have closed in about her.
Colonel Kenton carefully closed and fastened the window and door again and the two mounted their horses, which they led into the road. "Dick," said the colonel, "you and I are on opposing sides, but we can never be enemies." Then, after a strong handclasp, they rode away by different roads, each riding with a lighter heart.
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