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"No, you need not come," Beatrice said as Richford lounged heavily to his feet. "I do not feel the least in the mood to talk to anybody, not even you." The listener's sullen features flushed, and he clenched his hands. Beatrice had never taken the slightest trouble to disguise her dislike for the man she had promised to marry.
At every turn his keen eyes took in the aspect of the little group, and particularly the meaning of his wife's face, as it turned to Mr. Hendrickson, either in the play of expression or warm with the listener's interest. The sight half maddened him. Three times, in the next half hour, he said to his wife, as he paused in his restless promenade before her "Come, Jessie."
How can I divorce you?" "Can't you now I have told you? I thought my confession would give you grounds for that." "O Tess you are too, too childish unformed crude, I suppose! I don't know what you are. You don't understand the law you don't understand!" "What you cannot?" "Indeed I cannot." A quick shame mixed with the misery upon his listener's face. "I thought I thought," she whispered.
A young April wind, as fresh and sweet as if it had been blowing over the fields of memory instead of through dingy streets, was purring in the tree-tops and whipping the loose tendrils of the ivy network which covered the front of the main building. It was a wind that sang of many things, but what it sang to each listener was only what was in that listener's heart.
The fine white fingers of the priest were rising and falling ever so slightly on the velvet arm of the chair on which his hand rested, a compound gesture showing that both his brain and his hand were at his listener's service. "Go on," he said gently and firmly. "As priest or man, Mr. O'Day, I am ready." Felix paused; the priest bent his head in closer attention.
During these restless movements, alternated by abrupt pauses, equally inharmonious to the supreme quiet which characterised his listener's tastes and habits, the haughty gentleman disburdened himself of at least one of the secrets which he had hitherto guarded from his early friend.
Or if ever I know him more, it will be as Count Corti, Christian, stranger, and enemy." "Enemy my Lord's enemy? Never!" The Count protested with extended arms. "Yes, circumstances will govern. And now the Princess Irene." Mahommed paused; then, summoning his might of will, and giving it expression in a look, he laid a forcible hand on the listener's shoulder.
Occasionally stentorian lungs roar unmelodious music-hall choruses that jar by contrast with sweeter strains, but sentiment prevails, and who can wonder if there are sometimes tears in the voices that sing "Swanee River" and "Home, Sweet Home," or if a listener's heart is deeply moved as he hears the words, "Mother come back from the Echoless Shore," sung amid such surroundings in the still nights of days that are hoarse with the booming of guns.
Nancy gazed at him in consternation. "Why, Doctor, you have always said that when the Cause needed your services you would not fail...." "Nor will I, when the Cause really needs me. But at present you are better equipped to carry these messages through the lines than I." Nancy fingered the table ornaments for a moment in silence; then raised her troubled eyes to her listener's face.
The song of the brain-fever demon starts on a low but steadily rising key, and is a spiral twist which augments in intensity and severity with each added spiral, growing sharper and sharper, and more and more painful, more and more agonizing, more and more maddening, intolerable, unendurable, as it bores deeper and deeper and deeper into the listener's brain, until at last the brain fever comes as a relief and the man dies.
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