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"I'm all right," he insisted; "I can manage now," but Victoria seized his arm with a firm, detaining hand. "Please wait, Mr. Vane," she pleaded. But the feeling of shame at his helplessness was strong. "It's over now. I I can walk. I'm much obliged to you, Victoria much obliged." Fortunately Hilary's horse showed no inclination to go any farther even to the stable. And Victoria held on to his arm.
Hilary, stiffly. "I suppose it's something silly or worse." I looked at her in some puzzle. "Have you no longing for the House Opposite?" I asked. Mrs. Hilary looked at me. Her eyes ceased to be absolutely blank. She put her arm through Hilary's and answered gently "I don't want the House Opposite." "Ah," said I, giving my hat a brush, "but maybe you remember the House when it was Opposite?" Mrs.
"Come in and set down," she said; and seeing Victoria glance at Hilary's horse, she added, "Oh, he'll stand there till doomsday." Victoria, thinking that the situation would be less awkward, accepted the invitation, and Euphrasia shut the door. The hall, owing to the fact that the shutters of the windows by the stairs were always closed, was in semidarkness.
For two or three steps he managed to support himself on his crutches with marvellous agility; on the fourth they slipped, and if he had not been seized from behind by Mr Bertrand and pulled forward by Hilary's outstretched hand, he must have had a serious fall.
Marionetta listened in silent submission, for she knew that her inheritance was passive obedience; but, when Scythrop, who had watched the opportunity of Mrs Hilary's departure, entered, and, without speaking a word, threw himself at her feet in a paroxysm of grief, the young lady, in equal silence and sorrow, threw her arms round his neck and burst into tears.
"Anna she don't give any reason" she exclaimed. "Ask her, you, the reason!" "'Tain't reason at all," he softly responded, "it's superstition. But hold on. Watch me." He gestured for the lover's attention and their eyes met. It made a number laugh, to see Hilary's stare gradually go senseless and then blaze with intelligence.
No sooner had she said this, however, than she saw, from a little smile devoid of merriment and quickly extinguished, that Mrs. Hughs did not believe she would do anything of the kind; from which she concluded that the seamstress was convinced of Hilary's interest in the little model. She said hastily: "You can go now, Mrs. Hughs." Mrs. Hughs went, making no noise or sign of any sort.
I can go into business of sorts. Hilary can't; he'd hate it so. Hilary's not business-like, you know. Nor is Peggy. I couldn't trust them by themselves; they'd tumble into something and get broken. They need my common sense to sustain them." Leslie said, "What's the matter with your own line of life, that you want to chuck it?" Peter looked at him in surprise. "It's chucked me," he said.
In the absence of Luke, the hired man, the chief counsel for the railroad was wont to put up the horse himself, and he already had the reins festooned from the bit rings when he felt a heavy, hand on his shoulder and heard a voice say: "How are you, Judge?" If the truth be told, that voice and that touch threw the Honourable Hilary's heart out of beat.
Hilary rolled the cigar he was about to light between his lips. "We see the average man," said Maxwell, not at all flattered from his poise by Hilary's apologies. "It's a bore to be interviewed; I know that from the bore it is to interview." "I dare say that's often the worst part of it," said Hilary, lighting his cigar, and puffing out the first great clouds.
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