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It was rather as if he had unexpectedly found some new reason for thinking the girl an exceptionally interesting personality. But she continued all unaware. Shortly after being served with a drink which he ordered but made no offer to taste, he moved as if minded to rise and cross to Sofia, sat up and edged forward on the wall-seat with a singular air of timidity and embarrassment.
And she sat there with folded hands, mutinous yet impotent, afraid, a useless thing with sullen eyes ... wasted ... As was her custom, between six and seven, before the busy hours of the evening, she had her dinner fetched to a table near by. Somebody had left a copy of a morning paper on the wall-seat. Sofia glanced through it without much interest.
In one corner near Rutton's trunk, a bed-hammock swung from a beam. The few chairs were plain and rude. There were two deal tables, a plate-rack nailed to the partition, and a wall-seat in the chimney-corner. On the centre table, aside from the lamp, were a couple of books, some out-of-date magazines, and a common tin alarm-clock ticking stolidly.
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