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During this interchange of compliments, the woman I had decided was the maid had sat down, as though her legs were unable to sustain her, and was nervously clasping and unclasping her hands; even her mistress showed signs of impatience. "The cabinet is in here," I said, and led the way into the inner room, the two men and the veiled lady at my heels.
My back was to the door, and so careful were the footsteps crossing the room that I could not tell who the newcomer was until I felt a firm hand gently unclasping my nervous fingers from Dicky's. Then I looked up into the solicitous face of Dr. Pettit.
Smoking a short black pipe, he trudged along, keeping his eyes fixed on the ground with steady and almost surly persistence, till arriving at the tree where Helmsley lay, he paused, and lifting his head stared long and curiously at the sleeping man. Then, unclasping his hands, he lowered his basket to the ground and set it down.
"Who said that?" cried Mrs Frog, turning round with a sharp look, as if prepared to retort "you're another" on the shortest notice. "Mother!" again said Bob, unclasping his hands and holding them out. Mrs Frog had hitherto, regardless of the well-known effect of time, kept staring at heads on the level which Bobby's had reached when he left home. She now looked up with a startled expression.
Unclasping the armlets, one after another, she delivers them to Shebotha. But the avaricious beldame is not yet satisfied. With her eyes upon the chain necklet and its glittering attachments, she nods towards it, as much as to say, "That too." And it, also, is detached; and handed over to her.
She could see in the air, before her eyes in clear, sharp lettering "Brent died at half past two this afternoon. Garvey." The sensation of cold faded into a sensation of approaching numbness. She went into the hall to her own rooms. In the dressing-room her maid, Clemence, was putting away the afternoon things she had taken off. She stood at the dressing table, unclasping the string of pearls.
One could well believe such a being might pass in his serene poised majesty of motion through the walls of a gross material dwelling without deranging one graceful fold of his swaying robe or unclasping the hands folded quietly on his bosom.
She found herself now walking swiftly up and down the room, clasping and unclasping her hands. To think that James the last man in the world had kept this up his coat-sleeve for years and at last ! And how like the dear thing to turn the light out! To save his own face, of course, for he must have known, even he must have known, that she wouldn't have cared.
He recalled everything, her hysterical behaviour, her laughter, her tears. "It was you who drove that child back to this." He glanced at Polly. The narrow shoulders were bent forward. The nervous little fingers were clasping and unclasping each other. Never before had she seemed so small and helpless. "Oh, please, Mr. John, please! Don't make him any worse!" "Why didn't you tell me?" he demanded.
And Mary Ann looked at her white hands admiringly, and shot a glance, which Marjory felt rather than saw, at the brown ones nervously clasping and unclasping themselves. "I wonder," continued her tormentor, "that you don't insist on being sent to school, so that you could learn to earn your own living.
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