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"His mind is absolutely clear," said Barbara shakenly. She herself was waiting for an important telephone call, and occasionally pressing a folded handkerchief to her eyes. The two women kissed, with sudden tears on both sides, before Julia went noiselessly upstairs. Constance and Theodora were in their mother's room, Mrs. Toland with them.
Evelyn crowded up beside him and whispered shakenly: "It it was so lonesome down there, so quiet." Tommy frowned unhappily in the darkness. If he sent her back, she would know it was because he knew danger lurked here. Then she would worry. If he did not send her back.... "I'll go back the minute you tell me," she insisted forlornly. "Honestly. But I was lonesome."
As Peter was about to pass through the door, the Captain was suddenly galvanized into action by the thought that this perhaps was the last time he would ever see him. He got up from his chair and called shakenly to Peter. The negro paused. The Captain moistened his lips and controlled his voice. "I want to have a word with you, Peter, about a a little matter. I I've mentioned it before."
Francisco saw his parents to the steamer in a carriage packed with luggage shiny new bags and grips which, he reflected, would one day return much buffeted and covered with foreign labels. He had seen such bags in local households. The owners were very proud of them. Shakenly he patted his mother's arm and told her how young she was looking, whereat, for some reason, she cried.
The operator was shocked out of his despair. He said shakenly: "What the devil " Then he stared at Calhoun. "Help you? How can I help anybody? I'm a para!" "Which," said Calhoun, "is just what I need. I'm Med Service, man! I've got a job to do with what they call an epidemic! I need a para who's willing to be cured! That's you! Let's get this grid fixed so it can't work and "
He climbed the steps into the Planter's Bank and opened the screen-door. The cashier glanced up briefly, but continued busily at his ledger. Peter walked shakenly to the barred window in the grill. "Mr. Hooker." "Very busy now, Peter," came the high voice. "I want to know about this deed." The banker was nimbly setting down long rows of figures. "No time to explain deeds, Peter."
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