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Updated: May 14, 2025
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 On the centre table, aside from the lamp, were a couple of books, some out-of-date magazines, and a common tin alarm-clock ticking stolidly.
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