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She could not quite fathom his look, but it was undoubtedly stern. "Mr. Mercer," she said at last, rather piteously, "I indeed I am grateful to you, much more than grateful. But I can't!" "Rubbish!" said Mercer curtly. "If you weren't a girl, I should tell you not to be a fool!" She was clasping and unclasping her hands. It was to be a battle of wills. His rough speech revealed this to her.
Miss Lou listened with hands nervously clasping and unclasping, utterly at a loss to know how to tell the man, dreaming of home and planning for the future, that he must soon sleep beside poor Yarry. She had already taken to herself the mournful comfort that his grave also should be where she could care for it and keep it green. "I wish to tell you more about my little Sadie and my wife.
Standing with hands shoved under the frock-coat and one resting on each hip as though squeezing in the waist line; when seated, resting the elbows on the arms of the chair and nervously locking and unclasping fingers, are tricks common to both.
Both nodded, far too eager to waste time in words, and as rapidly as possible I described those incidents already narrated. At the close Eloise simply thanked me in silence with an appreciative glance, but the priest proved more demonstrative. "Thou hast, indeed, accomplished much, my son," he exclaimed impulsively, clasping and unclasping the slender fingers of his white hands nervously.
"Then, you were not at sea, Captain?" observed Burrell, seating himself, and unclasping his cloak. "I did not say so," replied the other, bringing his bushy brows more closely over his eyes, and glancing suspiciously upon the questioner. "Oh, no; I only imagined it." "Well, sir, I was not at sea, and I care not who knows it."
I was goin' to wait 'bout yere a week longer, but am gitting skeered they might quit runnin' their coaches. To tell the truth, miss, it looks some to me like thar wus a big Injun war comin', and I 'd like ter git home whar I belong afore it breaks loose." "Will will you take me with you?" He moistened his lips, his hands clasping and unclasping on the table. "Sure, if yer bound ter go.
"At all events, here you are," he said. "That's all that's necessary." A minute previously he had bowed to Helene without speaking. His glance for a moment fell on Jeanne, but feeling embarrassed he turned away his head. Jeanne bore his look with a serious face, and unclasping her hands instinctively grasped her mother's gown and drew closer to her side.
The cover is lifted, the wooden spoon plunges in; one shuts one's eyes to feel it, silently scrunching. "Let these little birds tell you your future!" She stands beside the cage, a shrivelled ageless Italian, clasping and unclasping her dark claws. Her face, a treasure of delicate carving, is tied in a green-and-gold scarf.
She fled to the trembling arms held out towards her, and the embrace of the two lovers frightened those who beheld it. Stephanie burst into tears. Suddenly the tears ceased to flow; she lay in his arms a dead weight, as if stricken by a thunderbolt, and said faintly: "Farewell, Philip!... I love you.... farewell!" "She is dead!" cried the colonel, unclasping his arms.
"If this were China," she told him, in a cold fury, "you'd be cut up with knives, in the court-yard where I could look on. But even here I can ring for a servant; and when Captain Ammidon comes back he'll know what to say to you." She could see that the last affected him; he hesitated, drew back, his hanging fingers clasping and unclasping. That, she thought, relieved, would dispose of him.
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