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Here at last was an outlet for that cash balance. He could adorn Maisie barbarically with jewelry, a thick gold necklace round that little neck, bracelets upon the rounded arms, and rings of price upon her hands, the cool, temperate, ringless hands that he had taken between his own.
The remembrance of this little episode flashed through my mind as I saw her hold out her ringless hand, begrimed now with dirt and smoke, with a purple mark like a bruise between the thumb and first finger, that showed me she had been one of the firing party.
Ravenslee, laying one white, ringless hand on Spike's shoulder and pointing toward the open door with the other, "lead on young Destiny!" It was past three o'clock and dawn was at hand as, by devious ways, Spike piloted his companion through that section of New York City which is known to the initiated as "Hell's Kitchen."
West looked across at the girl, who sat motionless, her eyes shaded by long lashes, and ringless fingers clasped in her lap. She appeared indifferent, uninterested, scarcely aware of his presence. He wondered if Hobart was listening at the door; what had become of Mike, and whether Sexton was alive or dead. For the moment he could scarcely make himself realize the true situation.
And that is not a high type of love I know it but oh, if I could only have his arms around me if I could rest there for a while and not feel so frightened, so utterly alone! I might win out; I might kill what is menacing me, with God's help and his!" She lay shivering on Kathleen's breast now, dry-eyed, twisting her ringless fingers in dumb anguish.
Hat and gloves she held in her slim white ringless hand. One thus saw her waving hair, framing her warm pale face in living ebony. "Padre!" said she. "Oh, dear, dear, Padre!" and down she dropped lightly beside me, and cradled her knees in her arms, and looked up, with an arch and tender friendliness. That childish action, that upward glance, brought back the darling child I had so greatly loved.
He stepped in and took his usual place without speaking again. The car drove off, Fenella holding his hand, the doctor sitting opposite. There was nothing about their attitude or appearance which indicated the change. Their chairs were so close together that they almost touched. Her white, ringless hand lay in his.
Landladies, whole black-bombazine generations of them oh, so long unheard! may rise in one Indictment of the Boarder: The scarred bureau-front and match-scratched wall-paper; the empty trunk nailed to the floor in security for the unpaid bill; cigarette-burnt sheets and the terror of sudden fire; the silent newcomer in the third floor back hustled out one night in handcuffs; the day-long sobs of the blond girl so suddenly terrified of life-about-to-be and wringing her ringless hands in the fourth-floor hall-room; the smell of escaping gas and the tightly packed keyhole; the unsuspected flutes that lurk in boarders' trunks; towels, that querulous and endless paean of the lodger; the high cost of liver and dried peaches, of canned corn and round steak!
"Why, you're not very fit for travelling," she said, glancing while she spoke at Hetty's ringless hand. "Have you come far?" "Yes," said Hetty, roused by this question to exert more self-command, and feeling the better for the food she had taken. "I've come a good long way, and it's very tiring. But I'm better now. Could you tell me which way to go to this place?"
His pulses were quickening, and a strange new delight stole through him. Surely this was the end. He could bear no more. And it seemed as though it were indeed so, for with a sudden impulse he caught hold of her white, ringless hand, and drew it gently toward him. There was a slight instinctive resistance which came and went in a space of time only a thought could measure.
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