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He's between twenty-five and thirty, for a guess; and, say, whatever he might have been once, he's a wreck now, long, thin face, with the cheekbones almost stickin' through, slumped in shoulders, bony hands, and a three months' crop of mud colored hair stringin' damp over his ears and brushin' his coat collar.
Mary leaned forward in her chair and looked at Sanderson with eager, questioning eyes. Sanderson stared vacantly back at her. She held the letter up to him. "This is father's answer, telling the man to come on. How on earth did you get hold of it?" Sanderson had slumped down in his chair. He saw discovery and disgrace in prospect.
The second period ended with the score unchanged. As he slumped to the ground for the rest period, Astro turned on Roger bitterly. "What's the idea, Manning? You're dogging it!" "You play your game, Astro," replied Roger calmly, "I'll play mine." "We're playing this game as a team, Roger," chimed in Tom heatedly. "You're kicking the ball all over the lot!" "Yeah," added Astro.
Ahem! says Marm Drivvle, and she began to clear her throat for action; she slumped down her nittin, and clawed off her spectacles, and looked right straight at me, so as to take good aim. I seed a regular norwester a bruin, I knew it would bust somewhere sartan, and make all smoke agin, so I cleared out and left old Drivvle to stand the squall.
Another and another explosion from the midst of the fire. He understood then. "The flames have reached his guns. That's all, Jack. Don't you see? We'd be throwing ourselves away to run into those flames." Realization came to her at last. A heavy weight slumped down suddenly over his arms. He held her easily, lightly.
Jerry smiled grimly to himself as he looked back perhaps five minutes later and saw how the two had slumped down in their seats. It did not need a throaty gurgle from Dave to convince him that the pair were sound asleep. "A fine pair of adventurers," he muttered to himself, not entirely without some feeling of resentment.
Something gathering in Jo's face should have warned her. But he was slumped down in his chair in such a huddle, and he looked so old and fat that she did not heed it. She went on. "You've got us to consider. Your sisters. And your nieces. Not to speak of your own " But he got to his feet then, shaking, and at what she saw in his face even Eva faltered and stopped.
Then, little by little, his great shoulders in the vividly checkered coat began to sag they slumped downward-until his head was bowed and his face lay hidden in the long arms crooked limply asprawl across the table-top. Once more he spoke aloud, hours later. "They didn't want me," he repeated dully. "Not even for the work I could do!"
I was too frightened even to open my mouth," said Dolly, honestly. "I couldn't have uttered a sound, no matter what depended on it, until I saw you were all right. And then I just slumped down and laughed as if there was something funny." "Well, we can all laugh at it now," said Eleanor. "Are you going back to the city to-night, Charlie?"
Shoulders slumped forward, head hanging low, he wheeled on heel and started for the gap in the hedge. Caleb could not move, nor did Allison, whose wits were quick enough in most things. But Garry Devereau followed and overtook his friend. He did not speak to him; he merely dropped one hand upon his drooping shoulders.
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