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She laughed, and immediately her speaking voice was high and sweet in his hearing. "Really, you know, Mr. Kirkwood, I simply couldn't contain my impatience another instant." Kirkwood gasped and tried to re-collect his wits. "Beg pardon I've been asleep," he said stupidly. "Yes. I'm sorry to have disturbed you, but, you know, you must make allowances for a woman's nerves."
A superstitious dread stole over her; she stood listening, for some moments, in trembling expectation, and then endeavoured to re-collect her thoughts, and to reason herself into composure; but human reason cannot establish her laws on subjects, lost in the obscurity of imagination, any more than the eye can ascertain the form of objects, that only glimmer through the dimness of night.
Better die of the sweet poison than of the desolate exile! I rose, I opened the windows; I walked to and fro the room; I could decide nothing, think of nothing; all my mind was in an uproar. With a violent effort at self-mastery, I approached the table again. I resolved to force myself to my task, if it were only to re-collect my faculties and enable them to bear my own torture.
He was glad of an opportunity to be alone with his own thoughts, for he was at one of those periodical epochs of life when we like to pause and breathe a while, in brief respite from that methodical race in which we run to the grave. He wished to re-collect the stores of his past experience, and repose on his own mind, before he started afresh upon the active world.
He, Maitland, was well rid of the whole damnable business.... Yes, jewels and all! What were the jewels to him?... Beyond their sentimental associations, he did not hold them greatly in prize. Of course, since they had been worn by his mother, he would spare no expense or effort to trace and re-collect them, for that dim sainted memory's sake.
The still room, the dumb pictures even the heavy sideboard seemed to gain voice, and speak to him audibly. He thrust his hand into the folds of his waistcoat, and griped his own flesh convulsively; then, striding to and fro the apartment, he endeavoured to re-collect his thoughts. "I dare not consult Mrs. Beaufort," he muttered; "no no, she is a fool! Besides, she's not in the way.
One uv the brothahs I can't re-collect his fust name wuzn't married; but the otheh hed a wife an' a four-year-old boy when they come, an' anotheh child wuz borned to 'em 'bout two weeks befoh thet last Injun raid.
They rose between him and his sober sense, whenever he sought to re-collect his thoughts, now to madden him with the sense of his folly in belief, now to divert his mind from the perilous present to the triumphant future they foretold; and of all the varying chaunts of the Vala, ever two lines seemed to burn into his memory, and to knell upon his ear, as if they contained the counsel they ordained him to pursue: "GUILE BY GUILE OPPOSE, and never Crown and brow shall Force dissever!"
He wuz a reckless, drinkin', high-tempered, rough feller; but, Lordee! how brave, when it come to fightin'! He wuzn't feared o' old Nick hisse'f or eny uv his imps." "What was his wife's name?" "Blest ef I kin re-collect, stranger. It's twenty-odd year ago, an' you see, I " "Was it Mary?" "No, I don't think thet wuz it." "Was it Sarah?" "Yes, thet's it. Sarah Sarah Jane, thet's it.
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