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But all his plan of proffering assistance vanished as he saw her impatient eyes and her splendors of dress another tight-fitting gown, of smoky gray, with faint silvery lights gliding along the fabric. She sat on the rail above him, immediately, unhesitatingly, and answered his "Evenin'" cheerfully. He wanted so much to sit beside her, to be friends with her.
In her other hand she held a golden goblet, proffering the fatal draught, and her tilted face with its strange, enigmatic smile and narrowed lids held all the seductive entreaty and beguilement, and the deep, cynical knowledge of mankind, which are the garnerings of the Circes of this world. At length Quarrington laid down his charcoal. "It's a splendid pose," he said enthusiastically.
"How couldst thou think to do me benefit by proffering such poison to my lips? nay, wherefore dost thou thyself carry it with thee, and why dost thou drink of it, as if it were something not hurtful as well to the body as the soul? Take my counsel, I pray thee, Alfred Stevens, and cast it behind thee for ever.
Meantime, he came daily to inquire for Kalliope, and lavished on her all that could be an alleviation, greatly offending Mrs. Halfpenny by continually proffering the services of a hospital nurse. 'A silly tawpie that would be mair trouble than half a dozen sick, as she chose to declare.
Messieurs Sharpe and Fowler had left the night before in the persuasion that I was a liar of the first magnitude; the genial belief brought them aboard again with the earliest opportunity, proffering help to one who had proved how little he required it, and hospitality to so respectable a character.
"Good-night," she said, without proffering her hand. He followed her out into the hall. "Betty," he said in a low voice, "won't you ever forgive me?" "I have no feelings towards you either of forgiveness or resentment," she replied. They did not mean to be overheard, but my hearing is unusually acute, and I could not help catching their conversation. "I know I seem to have behaved badly to you."
He was looking at me with a strange gaze of mingled curiosity and imbecile good-nature, and his hands, white as milk, trembled in the air before him, as if he could scarcely restrain himself from snatching out of my grasp the superb flower I seemed so willing to throw away. A happy impulse seized me. "Here," said I, proffering him the blossom. "This will give you more pleasure than it will me."
"To Congress Square," said Edward Billings Henry, impatiently. "It's business, and if I don't get there I'm out of a job, that's all." The boy mounted the step and clung to the seat, proffering his nickel. "I'll pay just what I'd pay on the car," he argued, "so you'd be making some money as well as giving me a lift."
That's as conscience bids ye. . . . But one warnin' I'll give A bad friend don't us'ally make a good husband." He motioned to Dinah to lead the way to the parlour, and so, with a jerk of the head, took his leave, not without dignity. Mrs Bosenna promptly burst into tears. Maybe he had, to begin with, some intention of proffering it.
And there were times when she disappeared for an hour or two in the afternoons, proffering no excuses, and came back flushed, and perhaps a little frightened. On the evenings that followed those small excursions she was particularly gentle to her mother. Mademoiselle watched and waited for the blow she feared was about to fall.
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