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As Frank Merriwell watched the game, a peculiar light stole into his eyes, and he was swayed by ill-repressed excitement. He was tempted to get up and go away for all that anybody might say, but he did not go; he lingered, and he was overcome by an irresistible longing a desire he could not govern. Finally, he exclaimed: "What's the use for me to sit humped up here! Give me a hand, and let me in."
For the first time, looking round the ill-lit room on the women's terrified faces, and the king's masked figure instinct with ill-repressed nervousness, I recognised how hopelessly we were enmeshed.
"And then she did refuse him," said I, with ill-repressed exultation. "Of that there can be no doubt; for independently of all the gossip and quizzing upon the subject, to which Guy was exposed in the coteries, he made little secret of it himself openly avowing that he did not consider a repulse a defeat, and that he resolved to sustain the siege as vigorously as ever."
"Ha, my old comrade!" he exclaimed, "thou art like King Dagobert wearing thy breeches inside out." In spite of discipline, this joke of the captain's was received with peals of ill-repressed laughter.
He saw, he read my difficulty at a glance, and with a smile of most supercilious expression, repeated coolly his former question. In an instant all thought of Hammersley was forgotten. I remembered no more. I saw him before me, he who had, since my first meeting, continually contrived to pass some inappreciable slight upon me. My eyes flashed, my hands tingled with ill-repressed rage, as I said,
The little room was foul with tobacco smoke and electric with ill-repressed excitement, yet he played on imperturbably, apparently hearing nothing, seeing nothing, his entire personality concentrated on his play. Suddenly he forced the fight to a finish. The opportunity came in a jack-pot which Hawes had opened. The betting began with a cool thousand. Then Hampton's turn came.
"And then she did refuse him," said I, with ill-repressed exultation. "Of that there can be no doubt; for independently of all the gossip and quizzing upon the subject, to which Guy was exposed in the coteries, he made little secret of it himself openly avowing that he did not consider a repulse a defeat, and that he resolved to sustain the siege as vigorously as ever."
They all sat down, and amid the commodore's growls at Grim's irregular hours, and Jacquelina's shrugs and smiles and sidelong glances and ill-repressed laughter, the meal passed. And when it was over, the commodore, leaning on Mrs. Waugh's arm, went to his own particular sofa in the back parlor; Mrs.
Hur gazed gloomily after him in silence until the footsteps of the belated guest had died away in the sleeping camp; then the ill-repressed wrath of the grave man, who had hitherto regarded his young wife with tender admiration, knew no bounds. With two long strides he stood directly before her as she gazed with a troubled look into the fire, her face even paler than his own.
The tenor of what he had said to the poor woman could only be judged by her answers, as, half-stifled by sobs ill-repressed, and by the covering which she still kept over her countenance, she faintly answered at each pause in his speech "Yes, sir, yes! Ye're very gude ye're very gude! Nae doubt, nae doubt! It's our duty to submit! But, oh dear! my poor Steenie! the pride o' my very heart, that was sae handsome and comely, and a help to his family, and a comfort to us a', and a pleasure to a' that lookit on him! Oh, my bairn! my bairn! my bairn! what for is thou lying there! and eh! what for am I left to greet for ye!"
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