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Then he dropped down at her side, looked at his watch in the light of a flaring match carefully cupped in his hand, and lighted his pipe. "Nearly midnight," he told her. Without replying she lay back against the slope of the mountain, closed her eyes and relaxed, breathing deeply. Her chest expanded deeply to the long indrawn breath which filled her lungs with the rare air.
"Yes, Jack," she said tremulously. For a moment he stood in silence, his face half-turned, his teeth hard on his indrawn lip thinking. There was nothing of the mountaineer about him now. He was clean-shaven and dressed with care June saw that but he looked quite old, his face seemed harried with worries and ravaged by suffering, and June had suddenly to swallow a quick surging of pity for him.
It was delightful after all to be young and strong, to be stripped for the race in the morning of life, when every indrawn breath seems sweet with the perfume of beautiful things, and the heart is tuned to music. The fatigue of the day was wholly forgotten. He was surprised indeed when he found himself in the little street where his rooms were.
"I don't know," she murmured "I don't know. I I felt that I must. I didn't think it was going to break so soon, and then the first flash of lightning and the voice of the thunder! It was like judgment day." "It is all passed and over," I remarked, with a man's clumsy attempt at consolation. "I wish it were I wish it were," she repeated, with an indrawn sigh. "It is all over hours ago," I said.
"Well, Jack," he answered with an indrawn sigh, "if you must know, I'm on the wrong side of the market." "Stocks?" "Not exactly. The bottom's fallen out of the Warehouse Company." Jack's heart gave a rebound. After all, it was only a question of money and this could be straightened out. He had begun to fear that it might be something worse; what, he dared not conjecture.
For just one instant Lionel was carried off his feet by the luxury of his genuine indignation, and in that one instant he was lost. "As God's my witness, that is false!" he cried wildly. "And you know it. I fought him fair...." He checked on a long, shuddering, indrawn breath that was horrible to hear.
She realized at a glance the awful trap that this silent, deadly place could be turned into; for one rushing moment her widening eyes could almost see blue masses of men in disorder, crushed into that horrible defile; her ears seemed to ring with their death cries, the rippling roar of rifle fire. Then, with a sharp, indrawn breath, she hastened forward, taking the descent at a run.
"Why don't 'ee stir theeself and hunt for un, Jarge?" panted one that stood near me, twisting hysterically upon a slow youth at her side. "Shut up, 'Liza!" he answered gruffly; then, with a sort of indrawn gasp "Look art the wall, lass look art the wall!" It was obvious to the least knowing what he meant.
Thank you for coming to say good-bye, Miss Lorne. It was kind of you. Now I must emulate Poor Jo, and 'move on' again." "And without any reward!" said Ailsa with a smile and a sigh. "Without expecting any; without asking any; without wanting any!" He stood a moment, twisting his heel round and round in the gravel of the pathway, and breathing hard, his eyes on the ground, and his lips indrawn.
"Oh!" she said, and though the little exclamation was scarcely more than an indrawn breath, Denis heard it, and came out of his corner to take a seat at her side, and lean over the box-edge also. "What is it, Theodora?" he asked, in a low, clear voice. "Is it Marguerite?" She looked at him in a little fright at herself.
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