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She glanced up in quiet pleasure at her Success, and, with a charming affectation of seriousness, marked the engagement with a big cross. At the same moment the car slackened speed, as the chauffeur waited for further orders. Lillian shut the engagement-book and handed it back. "Where can I drop you?" she asked. "At the club?" The question recalled him to a sense of present things.
He greeted her in silence, but she said in a glad voice: "Oh, is it you, Wolfgang?" and held out her hand to him. He strolled along beside her as he had done before; she had slackened her pace involuntarily. She did not know exactly on what footing they were with each other, but still she thought she could feel that he was no longer angry. "We are going away to-morrow," he said. "Well, I never!
Thus, of the two nets in which it has enveloped all human activity, one is rent asunder and the other has slackened its meshes.
And for a while out of that mist the arrows hissed, shot by unseen hands, and darts, hurled by whom one might not know, smote friend and foe alike, while if one slew his man, out of the fog came another to take his place, seeming endless foes. And as in a dream the noise of battle sounded, and the fight never slackened.
Yet, certainly, those fierce demonstrations which had formerly surrounded his person with such an atmosphere of terror had not slackened or become less frequent than heretofore. He continued to prove that he could be barbarous, both on a grand and a minute scale. Even as in preceding years, he could ordain wholesale massacres with a breath, and superintend in person the executions of individuals.
One night on returning home from a party at Lady Westborough's in Hanover Square, Clarence observed a man before him walking with an uneven and agitated step. His right hand was clenched, and he frequently raised it as with a sudden impulse, and struck fiercely as if at some imagined enemy. The stranger slackened his pace.
Everything real, substantial, comforting, seemed to have slipped away. Among these flying dark ghosts of pine-trees as it were the unfrequented borderland between two worlds the feeling of a cheek against her breast alone could help muffle the deep disquiet in her, lost like a child in a wood. The cab slackened speed, the driver was lighting his lamps; and his red face appeared at the window.
From Ellis's desk trickled a little stream. Dr. Elliot was already bending over the slackened form. "So it wasn't ink," said Hal slowly. "Is he dead, Dr. Elliot?" "No," snapped the other. "Esmé, bandages! Quick! Your petticoat! That'll do. Get another candle. Dr. Surtaine, help me lift him. There! Surtaine, bring water. Do you hear? Hurry!"
She sat looking back at the cutter half a cable astern. The westerly had failed them. The spreading canvas of the yacht was already blanketing the little sloop, stealing what little wind filled her sail. And as the sloop's way slackened the other slid down upon her, a purl of water at her forefoot, her wide mainsail bellying out in a snowy curve. There were three men in her.
But he checked the first eagerness of his repentant haste, when he reflected on the scorn and contempt with which the family were likely to see the return of the fugitive, humbled, as they must necessarily suppose him, into a supplicant, who requested pardon for his fault, and permission to return to his service. He slackened his pace, but he stood not still.
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