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He expected an interruption, and he was talking, talking, talking, in order to gain time for it. I was as sure of it as if he had whispered his secret in my ear, and down in my numb, cold heart a warm little spring of hope began to bubble and run. But Toussac had chafed at all this word-fencing, and now with an oath he broke in upon our dialogue. 'I have had enough of this! he cried.
Then he became aware of a dreadful qualm. Had he any right to place on her slim shoulders the weight of an avowal from which he had flinched? He dropped that protecting hand as if it had been struck sharply. "I have annoyed you by my stupid word-fencing," he said contritely. "No, indeed," she said, and, reveling in a new sense of power, her tone grew very gentle.
Elizabeth took it as a matter of course; she was accustomed to this kind of word-fencing; she did not do it very well herself: her royalty gave her many advantages which she often availed herself of; and her address was not to be compared for a moment with that of some of her courtiers and ladies.
"Well, not your son," said Chris smiling. "You too!" cried Beatrice. "And how have I been hardly treated?" "Well, I thought perhaps, that what was said at supper " began the old man, beginning to smile too. "Lady Torridon, and every one, has been all that is hospitable," said Beatrice. "It is like old days at Chelsea. I love word-fencing; and there are so few who practise it."
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