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He seemed to detect in Dick some watchful kindness toward himself, the responsible care attendants manifest toward the incapable. Dick was, he concluded, bent on therapeutic measures. Tira, from the forenoon of Tenney's accident, entered on uneventful days. He lowered over his helplessness; he was angry with it. But the anger was not against her, and she could bear it.
She dripped, in the process, as if, Tenney used to tell her in the first days of their marriage, she got in all over. In her bedroom, with the sweet air on her bare arms and the robins calling and the general tumult and busy ecstasy outside, she stopped to wonder. Could she take the baby and slip out by the side door, and come back in time to fry Tenney's ham for dinner? No, it wouldn't do.
Breath came faster and eyes shone. The likelihood of a hysterical giggle was imminent, and some couples, safely out of range of Tenney's gaze, were "holding hands" and mentally shuddering at their own temerity. Now he was telling his own religious experience, with a mounting fervor ready to froth over into frenzy. Raven, turning slightly, regarded him with a cold dislike.
You go to-night an' put the railroad betwixt you an' me." "Don't be foolish, Tira," said Raven again. "I've been in more dangerous places than this, and run bigger risks than Tenney's old musket. That's all talk, what he says to you, all bluff. I begin to think he isn't equal to anything but scaring a woman to death. But" now he saw his argument "I will go.
The old fears were on in full force, and though it had not looked as if they could be much augmented, now they piled up mountain high. And she presently found out they were not the old fears at all. There was a fresh menace, ingeniously new. She had studied the weather of Tenney's mind and knew the signs of it. She could even anticipate them. But this new menace she could never have foreseen.
And here are Bryan Tenney's rabbits. He has given them to us for keeps." "Well, you can march them straight back," declared Faith, with energy. "Where do you expect to keep rabbits on this place?" "In a box of hay in the barn. We may keep them, mayn't we, Gail?" "They will die of cold," protested Faith. "We won't let them.
Raven hated it all, out of his element as he was, going to spy on Tenney and hear him pray. What other reason was there? He and Nan simply wanted to search out the reactions in Tenney's spiritual insides in order to defeat him the more neatly. The house was brightly lighted downstairs. Six or eight sleighs stood in the shelter of the long open shed at right angles to the barn.
Charlotte, standing above him, put her hand on his shoulder. "Johnnie," she said, "Isr'el Tenney's been here. He wants you to give him back his gun." "Oh," said Raven, taking his head out of his hands and sitting up. "His gun?" "He says," Charlotte continued, her voice shaking, "Tira's run away.
Sometimes he came to the house to ask how Tenney was getting on, but to-day he had to get back to his own work. This was perhaps a week after Tenney's accident, when he was getting impatient over inaction, and next day the doctor came and pronounced the wound healing well.
There was a voice outside Tenney's voice, only not Tenney's as he had known it whimpering, begging in a wild humility: "You there? You let me in. You there? For God's sake let me in." Raven was at once clearly awake. His mind was, after its interlude of darkness, ready. He got up, and opened the door. "Come in," he said. "Yes, leave the door open. I've been asleep. It's close in here."
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