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She put her hand to her heart, in that gesture of grief which is so entirely natural when we feel the stab of destiny; and then she went wanly into the sitting-room, looking about her for some pretense of duty to solace her poor mind. There again she caught sight of herself in the glass. "Oh, my!" breathed Lucy Ann. Low as they were, the words held a fullness of joy.
She half smiled at him wanly, a sweet forgiving smile, a smile that verged on tears, and then they parted. Slowly, without looking back she went down the uneven strand to Cissy, to Edy to Jacky and Tommy Caffrey, to little baby Boardman. It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
The four French windows were uncurtained, and the inside shutters folded back, so that the silent clerks might have the benefit of every ray of daylight filtering wanly through Mercer's murky air. A long table stood in the middle of the room; generally it was covered with blue-prints, or the usual impedimenta of an office.
"You'd better take out the piano again," said Mrs. Brown wanly. "It's the only thing to do." With straining, and efforts, and groans, and a certain amount of destruction, the piano was eventually lowered again to the ground. Then the sideboard and hat-stand were moved to one side, and finally there emerged from the struggle William and Jumble.
Then he shambled in and sat down on the sofa beside Aunty Nan. "There, there, don't cry," he said, patting her thin little shoulder with his big, sunburned paw. "You'll make yourself sick if you go on crying, and we can't get along without you at Gull Point Farm." Aunty Nan smiled wanly. "I'm afraid you'll soon have to get on without me, Jordan. I'm not going to be here very long now.
"He is not here," said Nurse Johnson apathetically. "They carried away some prisoners; he must be among them." "Then he can be exchanged," cried Peggy, a gleam of joy irradiating her countenance. "Oh, I'm glad, glad!" Nurse Johnson smiled wanly. "I shall know no peace until I find where he is," she said. "I am glad that you are safe. Why came ye back from the woods? The British have just gone."
The pale firelight filled the cabin, dancing against the walls. The glare reflected wanly on the ground where he lay. All at once he was aware that his eyes were fastened upon an old cigar box on a shelf against the wall. He seemed to have a remembered interest in it, as if long ago he had examined its contents with boyish speculations. But he couldn't remember what it contained.
"That was rather my view of it," I said, "But I must admit my astonishment to find that, with such a sceptical opinion of the goal, you still do not hesitate to take risks which may be quite considerable." Morhange smiled wanly. "I do not interpret, my friend; I collect. From what I will take back to him, Dom Granger has the ability to draw conclusions which are beyond my slight knowledge.
"It may be that this crackbrained rebellion of which the torch is already alight will, if it does no other good in England, at least make a widow of you. When that has come to pass, when I have thus repaired the wrong I did you, I hope you'll bear me as kindly as may be in your thought. Good-bye, my Ruth! I would you might have loved me. I sought to force it." He smiled ever so wanly.
I made her sit down in an armchair, and watched her anxiously, but although every speck of colour had faded from her cheeks, she was splendidly courageous, and almost immediately she smiled up at me, very wanly, but confidently. "I will look after her," she said. "Mr. Harley will need your assistance."
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