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I was dumfounded at his solemnity, at the responsibility he was putting upon me. It was my first realization of the fact that The Wand had indeed become the voice of the Brulé; that where it led, people would follow. If my going would start a general exodus, I had to stay. I walked wearily out of the Land Office, leaving the proofs on his desk.
The deep embroidered cuffs and collar upon his blouse were crushed and rumpled; his little Zouave jacket was wind-blown and dusty, and his pumps splashed with mud from the gutter-puddles through which he had run. At home they would have said he "looked like distress;" but here, leaning wearily against the post, he was a most picturesque little figure.
But where to look she could not guess; and with her brain in a whirl which threatened a violent headache, she closed the chest at last, and crept wearily to bed just as the clock, which Peterkin had set up in one of his towers, struck for half-past ten, and Grace Atherton's carriage was rolling down the avenue from the big dinner at the Park House.
"Yes, but not that at least, not yet. We have some pride left. Wait wait until father comes back." With a gesture Alice consented. She sank wearily into a chair. It was tedious waiting. The girls talked but little they had no heart for it. Around them hummed the noise of the apartment house. Noises came to them through the thin, cheap walls.
She sank her voice to a ghostly whisper, and yawned. "Now you go to sleep, Cornelia; but if you want anything I shall be watching here beside you, and you must ask me. Would you like anything now? An olive, or a cracker?" "Nothing," said Cornelia, tumbling wearily upon the couch. Charmian surveyed her white, drawn face with profound appreciation.
Allan, meanwhile, glancing in, saw nothing in the gray gloom but a small figure in a well-known wrapper, stretched wearily upon the couch. "Poor little mother," he thought. "She is quite tired out." He went up to her intending to bestow a filial caress upon her cheek, but before his design could be accomplished he was drawn close by a single arm around his neck, and repeatedly kissed.
A hundred times did those rudely carved letters seem about to start forth and denounce him. It was a disquieting afternoon for Paul. But the time dragged wearily on, and still the desk loyally kept its secret. The dusk drew on and the gas-burners were lit.
She gazed steadily for a moment, and then her face softened, and she turned aside, and sank wearily into a chair. "Do as you like," she said, in a low murmur. "I'll leave it to you, Mason. Let Mr. Stone go ahead." "Yes, go ahead, Mr. Stone," said Aunt Abby, eagerly. "I'll show you anywhere you want to go anything you want to see I'll tell you all about it."
The grateful creature thanked his benefactor warmly, and promised Ferko to do him a good turn if he should ever need it. Ferko continued his way till he came to a ploughed field. Here he noticed a little mouse creeping wearily along on its hind paws, for its front paws had both been broken in a trap.
That evening Ann went out on a charitable mission, leaving Fledra to deliver a message to Everett and to care for Floyd. The boy was in bed, his thin white hands resting wearily at his sides. For sometime he allowed his sister to work at her lessons. Then he said impetuously: "Flea, why be these folks always so kind to you and me?
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