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She did not even answer this with her usual headshake, but began walking resolutely back over the way we had come. Bewildered, I watched her a moment and then got into the car and turned it around, trying to keep her in sight in the rearview mirror as I did so. It was an awkward procedure on a highway heavy with traffic. By the time I had reversed my direction she was gone.
And I've no idea where he's to be found now," and the old man turned his back on the man in the gray coat and went into his office. The stranger climbed back into his buggy and took up the lines again with a preoccupied headshake. "Now, I promised Lettie," he muttered, "that I'd find out all about that boy and maybe bring him home with me. Funny that man gave his such a bad character.
Well, she looked, before him there, at the condition then, abruptly, with a gesture, she gave it up. She had a headshake of disenchantment so far as the idea had appealed to her. It all appeared too difficult. "Oh, my 'condition' I don't hold to it. You may cry it on the housetops anything I ever do." "Ah well, then !" This made, he laughed, all the difference. But it was too late.
She had to take from him again, on this, one of his long looks, and she took it to its deepest, its headiest dregs. "I shall ask you, for the great thing in your life," he said, "to depend on me a little more." After which, just hesitating, "Doesn't he belong to some club?" he inquired. She had a grave headshake. "He used to to many." "But he has dropped them?" "They've dropped him.
It was a relief to us all when Doctor Winchester came in, breathless with running. He only asked one question: "Can anyone tell me anything of how this wound was gotten?" On seeing the headshake which went round us under his glance, he said no more, but applied himself to his surgical work.
He found a wash-bowl and soap and a towel, three things he rarely sought for any purposes of his own. Then, after looking into the cupboard, he shook his head. It was deplorably bare of all but uncleanliness. And it was the former that caused his headshake, not the latter. With some pride he re-stocked the shelves with the liberal purchases he had made at Bill's expense.
"Ah," laughed the subject of Vanderbank's information, "I'm afraid 'pursuit, with me, is over." "Why, you're at the age," Mitchy returned, "of the most exquisite form of it. Observation." "Yet it's a form, I seem to see, that you've not waited for my age to cultivate." This was followed by a decisive headshake. "I'm not an observer. I'm a hater."
She tried not to let Susan see that she believed the worst. But her melancholy headshake and murmured "Poor David and him such a kind, whole-hearted man" was as an obituary on the dead. "Well," she said in pensive comment when Susan had got to the end of her history, "you can't get through a journey like that without some one coming to grief. It's not in human nature.
Longdon said nothing for a moment and when he at last spoke it was almost with an air of contradiction. "She's your mother to the life." His hostess, for three seconds, looked at him hard. "Ah but with such differences! You'll lose it," she added with a headshake of pity. He had his eyes only on Vanderbank. "Well, my losses are my own affair." Then his face came back.
It doesn't seem long ago," he pursued to his young friend, "that I used to feel I was in it; but the way you bring home to me, dreadful youth, that I'm already NOT !" Harold looked earnest to understand. "The hungry generations tread you down is that it?" Vanderbank gave a pleasant tragic headshake. "We speak a different language." "Ah but I think I perfectly understand yours!"
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