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"I'm not in the secret service of a government, as you doubtless can infer from my knowledge of matters and use of technical language!" she smiled. "And the affair rather fascinated me, I admit, by its unusualness. Moreover, I knew Madame Durrand intimately how intimately may be inferred from the circumstances. "Well, we landed, had our baggage chalked, and went to the Plaza for the night.
All the way up Whitehall there was one long line of taxicabs, unable to ply for hire or find their way to the garages until daylight. The unusualness of it all was almost stimulating. At the top of the broad thoroughfare, Thomson turned to the left through the Pall Mall Arch and passed into St. James's Park.
There were times when an avowal seemed to tremble on his lips, when his eyes looked into hers with the look no women ever mistakes; the next moment he would glance away, his face would harden. They were miles apart. And perhaps the situation had piqued the girl. Certainly it had lost nothing for her by its unusualness. To-night there was a difference in the man.
No coquetting miss, contriving to meet the lad of her fancy, could have planned things to more of a nicety; Robin, her arms full of her absurd purchases, came out of the store just as Dale and Adam Kraus walked along. It was not so much the unusualness of the girl's being there and alone, that brought Dale to a quick stop; it was the imploring look in her wide and serious eyes.
They are oyster wagons, you know." "Is it fish that we smell?" cried Sally, laughing for very joyousness, and forgetting to wonder at the unusualness of his addressing them. "Methought it was the pines." "Nay; 'tis fish," he declared. "At what are you looking, Mistress Peggy?" "I am admiring thy horse," she replied. "'Tis a beauty. Almost as pretty as my own little mare." "Nay," he protested.
His dark hair, disheveled and matted, was unusually thick and bushy, with the exception of one spot, in the center of his forehead, where there was a single white lock, a capillary phenomenon, which imparted at once to his face from its very unusualness an individuality quite its own. No one knew who he was or where he came from.
"The most surprising thing to me in all this unusualness," he said, "is the cool manner in which these beggars ignore us. You know how such people gape, usually; but not a soul among all these people seems to know we're here." She looked at him with a gentle amusement and sympathy in her brown eyes. "That is not surprising," she said, quietly. "For, you know, we are not here really."
There was an unusualness in him which impressed and irritated her simultaneously. It was annoying to her that he should intrude, however transiently, into the precincts of her thought. And when he had gone she took her father to task: "What do you have that man to dinner for?" she asked. "Who is he?" Mr.
It gave me a brand-new emotion, and brand-new emotions aren't every-day affairs, let me tell you! You brought something naïve, unusual, fresh, perplexing, into a bored existence. And then you refused to spoil it! That added to the quality of the unusualness. The ninety and nine would have subjected me to the acid test of matrimony, with the later and inevitable alimony.
Wilding watched them until they turned the corner, then he walked his mare slowly forward until he was alongside Ruth. "Before I go," said he, "there is something I should like to say." His dark eyes were sombre, his manner betrayed some hesitation. The diffidence of his tone proved startling to her by virtue of its unusualness.
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