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But if you don't, leave her alone. She shall be no man's second best. That I swear." He ceased abruptly. His yellow face was full of passion. His hand was clenched upon the sofa-cushion. The whole body of the man seemed to thrill and quiver with electric force. And then in a moment it all passed. As at the touching of a spring his muscles relaxed.
"Oh, don't!" said Chris, and snatched it from him. When Max came back she was standing by the window, still fumbling at her glove, with her back turned, while her fiancé leaned against the mantelpiece, finishing his cigarette. Wearily Bertrand de Montville turned his head upon the sofa-cushion, and opened his heavy eyes.
There were four of us squatters myself and my wife, the King and Queen of Silverado; Sam, the Crown Prince; and Chuchu, the Grand Duke. Chuchu, a setter crossed with spaniel, was the most unsuited for a rough life. He had been nurtured tenderly in the society of ladies; his heart was large and soft; he regarded the sofa-cushion as a bed-rook necessary of existence.
The Thing was the Half Moon Trust Company. Geraldine glanced back at the portrait over the divan: "Do you know," she ventured, "that I believe mother would have let us have fun." "I'll bet father would, too," said Scott. "Sometimes I feel like kicking over everything in the house." "So do I and I generally do it," observed Geraldine, lifting a slim, graceful leg and sending a sofa-cushion flying.
What's that you're making, a young sofa-cushion?" "Don't speak so loud, Father. It's a Christmas present I'm making for Mother, and it won't go right. If you can't help me, I don't know what I'll do. I've tried every way, but it's always wrong side out!" "What a hateful disposition it must have! But what is it?"
"We'll just rifle your chest, Cato, and stow you away in the bath-tub with a sofa-cushion under your head to make you comfortable, and bid you farewell not au revoir, Cato, but just plain farewell forever." The words were hardly spoken before the deed was accomplished.
History spoke up, as usual, with one of his eternal school-book memories, and piped out: "You remind me, Quiz, of the day when Archimeter jumped out of his bath-tub and ran around yelling, 'Euraker! Euraker!" But Heady shouted: "Somebody stuff a sofa-cushion down History's mouth until we learn what it is that Quiz has got." "Or what it is that's got Quiz," added Jumbo.
I did, and so did he, though he finished his lecture without a sign. "When it was over he came into my room and lit a cigarette. "'Just run over my reflexes, Smith, said he. "There was hardly a trace of them left. I tapped away at his knee-tendon and might as well have tried to get a jerk out of that sofa-cushion. He stood with his eyes shut again, and he swayed like a bush in the wind.
Then he went to the bell and touched it, and, having done so, strode out into the narrow hall, opened the front door and was gone; and when, a few minutes later, Aimée came running down to answer the strange summons, she found only the silent room, Dolly's white, piteous face upon the sofa-cushion, and the great package of those old, sweet, foolish letters upon the table.
That she should sit calmly embroidering a sofa-cushion, with this knowledge in her heart, with this possibility hanging over her, seemed to him to pass the limits of the human. He knew there were heroic women; but he had not supposed that with all their heroism they carried themselves with such sang-froid. Before replying she took time to search in her work-basket for another skein of silk.
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