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The frenzied despair in the dark flashing eyes that met his struck an answering chord in his own heart and the silent handclasp that passed between them seemed to ratify a common desire. Here, too, was a man who for love of a woman sought death that he might escape a life of terrible memory.
For seven years he had been hugging the hope that when he and his father met blood would tell, and that their differences would vanish in a strong handclasp; and here he lay, trussed hand and foot, in his old cabin, not a crack in that granite lump his father called a heart! A childish thought!
Everard spoke with his usual brevity, but his handclasp was remembered by Tommy for a very long time after. "And to Stella?" he said, pushing his horse a little nearer till it muzzled against its fellow. Everard's eyes, grave and dark, looked out to the low horizon. "I think not," he said. "She has no further use for it." "She will have," said Tommy quickly.
Since that night when he had kneeled with her at her father's lifeless body, she was bound to him by a nameless bond of gratitude, of mutual feeling, and by an inner apprehension that their fate was interwoven. Still no consciousness of love colored Gro's attitude. She longed for Soelver's strong handclasp because it made her will strong to withstand her sorrow.
Then with Osritha's handclasp still warm on mine I went out and followed him, and she sought the maiden who waited beside the door, and was gone. When we came to the great gates, they were shut. The sounds of feasting went on in the hall, and the red light glared from the high windows. Forgotten was all but revelling and the guard who kept the gate was Raud the forester, my friend.
At the close he shook hands with every happy youngster who sought him and few failed to do it gave each a cheery word and hearty handclasp, and then the little ones scattered, swarming along the wide pavements of Broad Street till the Thanksgiving promenaders wondered what had broken loose and whence the swarms of merry children came."
Virginia remembered afterward the doctor's strong handclasp and the steady gaze of his dark eyes and the pathos of his voice as he bade her good-by. But she did not note these then, for at that moment Thaine came down the walk with his father, and in the sorrow of parting with her son she had no mind for other things. Dreary rains filled up the first days of May.
"Oh, I guess we've clipped his claws for a while," he said lightly, unwilling that she should be anxious for his safety, sweet though he found her sympathy to be. "Hello, Lem!" "Hello, yourself!" They shook hands, the firm handclasp of strong men, and then all three rode on together to the house.
The spot stirred ghosts, and the governor turned to the murmuring shore with its gentle mimicry of ocean. Half sheltered by a clump of sumach sat a woman upon a bit of driftwood and flung pebbles in the lake. He stared, and then went slowly down to her. "Ruth," he said, "you here!" "Your Excellency startled me." Her banter puzzled him, but the handclasp was warm.
This physical beauty had as an aureole to illuminate it and to set it off a manner that was wholly devoid of mannerisms of those that men and women think out and exhibit to give added charm to themselves tricks of cuteness, as lisp and baby stare; tricks of dignity, as grave brow and body always carried rigidly erect; tricks of sweetness and kindliness, as the ever ready smile and the warm handclasp.
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