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Dade picked the thimble out of a matted corner of a violet bed, and returned it to her unsmilingly; got a flash of her eyes and a little nod for his reward, and stood back, waiting her further pleasure. "You have had adventures, Señor, since yesterday morning," she said to him lightly. "Truly, you Americanos do very wonderful things!
We arose as she approached, but she motioned us back to our chairs. "Don't get up. I guess I'll join you." We drew up a chair and she seated herself between us. Then she looked steadily and unsmilingly from one to the other. "I want to thank you two. I've been a damn fool." "Well, old girl," said Jaffery kindly, "I must own you've been rather indiscreet." "I've been a damn fool," she repeated.
He took her hands, and unsmilingly he scanned her, from her smooth hair to her mouth, from her hands to her feet. "What is it?" he asked. She gave him her clear regard. "All the things that have mattered most to me have been comings and goings through this gate and the garden door." "Well, dearest one " "You've come again." "And I shall come tomorrow." "Will you?"
One never knows, though, how long that time being will last." "What shall you do, when the war ends?" "Go home, take up a share in the pater's business, and grow stout and lazy," he answered her unsmilingly. "An alluring prospect." "Yes; but there will be other things: an occasional dinner, and even a tea now and then."
At his unexpected appearance, the blood fled from her face, leaving her quite pale and trembling. This was the man who was seeking Andy Bishop as at one time Dominie Graves had sought her father. How lordly he seemed, looking down upon her unsmilingly from his great height. Arrogantly he surveyed her from head to foot. "You're the little church singer, aren't you?" he questioned after a while.
She looks up at him, too, as though desirous of his forgiveness, and Fabian, taking her slim little baby hand in his, assures her with a glance that she is forgiven; and then she smiles at him, and nestles a degree closer, and then Fabian, though always unsmilingly, passes his arm round the child, and draws her into a more comfortable position.
Hesitating a moment, she stared up utterly unsmilingly into the Salesman's beaming face, ignored the Youngish Girl's inviting hand, and with a sudden little chuckling sigh of contentment, climbed up clumsily into the empty place beside the Young Electrician, rummaged bustlingly around with its hands and feet for an instant, in a petulant effort to make a comfortable nest for itself, and then snuggled down at last, lolling half-way across the Young Electrician's perfectly strange knees, and drowsed off to sleep with all the delicious, friendly, unconcerned sang-froid of a tired puppy.
Then he dropped into the chair set for him, while his eyes responded unsmilingly to the measuring gaze of the other. "It's queer we've never met before," Bull said, leaning back in his chair. Peterman laughed. He pushed a large box of cigars close to the visitor's hand. "It's mostly that way with the high command in war," he said easily. "The opposing generals don't meet except at the peace table.
"And what are your own plans, Sue?" he presently asked, unsmilingly. Susan was chilled by the half-weary tone. "Well, I'm really just resting and helping Auntie, now," Susan said cheerfully. "But in the fall " she made a bold appeal to his interest, " in the fall I think I shall go to New York?" "New York?" he echoed, aroused. "What for?" "Oh, anything!" Susan answered confidently.
"Sit down," said Sprouse quietly. Something in the man's voice and manner struck Barnes as oddly compelling. He hesitated a second and then resumed his seat. "I've been investigating you, Mr. Barnes," said the little man, unsmilingly. "Don't get sore. It may gratify you to know that I am satisfied you are all right." "What do you mean, Mr. Mr. ?" began Barnes, angrily. "Sprouse.
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