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Closing the parlour door behind him, Will crossed the room and caught at the mantel for support. "I told you I'd do it some day I told you I'd do it," he said incoherently, in a frantic effort to shift the burden of responsibility upon stronger shoulders. "You might have known all along that I'd do it some day." "Do what?" demanded Christopher, while he felt the current of his blood grow weak.
I observed, however, with alarm, that he talked often and incoherently to himself constantly muttering the lines of the old prophecy constantly referring to the fatal place that was empty in Wincot vault constantly repeating in broken accents, which it affected me inexpressibly to hear, the name of the poor girl who was awaiting his return to England.
Oh!" she cried, her eyes flashing, "I could murder such a man cut him to pieces, inch by inch and gloat over the deed!" Rushford was very pale and his hands were trembling a little as he started for the door. "Yes, I'll order the trunks packed," he said, incoherently. "I'll have to hurry I'll try to " Something in his voice caught Susie's ear; she turned her head and looked at him.
Now and then a few words burst lamentably and incoherently from her lips.
"I went down to the six-o'clock train, and then I waited for the next, and then I came home, and I watched, and the telegraph-boy came to tell me there was no telegram, and I had the dinner keeping warm on the back of the range; it was beefsteak cooked that way in the cook-book, and there was a pudding," said Charlotte, incoherently, and she began to weep against her father's shoulder.
A strand of hair fell athwart her eyes and she brushed it aside. "But I? I, whom you have made dance so sorrily? but I?" "To-night I saw you . . . I could see you," incoherently, "alone, bereft of the friend you loved and who loved you. . . . I thought of you as you faced them all that day! . . . How calm and brave you were! . . . You said that some day you would force me to love you.
Oh, Peter, we never should have let it happen our caring for each other! we never should have allowed ourselves to think to dream of such a thing! Oh, Peter, I'm so sick about it," Cherry added, incoherently, with filling eyes. "I'm just sick about it! I know I know that Alix would never have permitted herself to I know she wouldn't!" He was close to her, and now he laid his hand over hers.
As she stood weakly, she apologized incoherently. "Captain, I appreciate your kindness you've always been a good customer one I liked to do for but I'm all upset I can't get my wits " "No hurry, madam," he said, with a generous intent. "To-morrow is coming. Don't hurry at all at all."
Frightened as Edith was at Dr. Griswold's manner she could not repress a smile at Nina's mistaken idea. Still she did NOT swear, and all that night he continued talking incoherently of Arthur, of Edith, of Nina, Geneva, Richard Harrington, and a thousand other matters, mingling them together in such a manner that nothing clear or connected could be made of what he said.
She had risen and was facing Constance, both hands pressed to her throbbing temples as if to keep her head from bursting. Constance had assisted her off with her coat and hat, and now the sartorial wreck of her masses of blonde hair was apparent. "I suppose," she cried incoherently, "I'm just one more of the thousands of girls who drop out of sight every year." Constance listened in amazement.
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