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He scarcely dared think of it yet. Shyly he remembered how he had held her hand to give her courage while they rode in darkness; her poor work-roughened little hand, that had been old when he took it first, and had warmed in his clasp.
Laura glanced down at her hands, and Nasmyth guessed what she was thinking, for they were hard, and work-roughened. The toil that her hands showed was, as he realized, only a part of her burden. "I think it affects me a very great deal," she declared slowly. Then a curious compassion for her troubled the man.
Her brilliant eyes reflected the dancing firelight; her shapely hands, jewelled like Mrs. Breckenridge's, but after an even more rare and perfectly chosen fashion, lay in her silken lap. As his glance fell upon these hands some whimsical thought brought to Brown's mind Mrs. Kelcey's red, work-roughened ones. He wondered if by any chance the two hands would ever meet, and whether Mrs.
The elder girl's rather bold blue eyes seemed to take stock of the younger one; then she said, with a note of greater friendliness: "Oh, well, come on. You can sit next to me if you like." Faith took courage. "What is your name?" she asked diffidently. The elder girl laughed. "They call me Peg," she said, and with sudden impulse she held out her work-roughened hand.
'I must not make a martyr of myself, when I am one of so large a company. 'Relinquish it, or begin it all over again? mused Clennam. 'That was exactly the long and the short of it, said Doyce. 'Then, my friend, cried Clennam, starting up and taking his work-roughened hand, 'it shall be begun all over again! Doyce looked alarmed, and replied in a hurry for him, 'No, no. Better put it by.
Pete added a log to the fire so that the flames stretched up bravely and made a great fan of light against which they all seemed painted like ornamental figures, Hugh lounging along the rug to make a striking central figure. Bella was drawn up rigidly on a stiff, hard chair; she hemmed a long, coarse towel with her blunt, work-roughened fingers.
The voice of the storyteller went on and drew her with it into winding grottos under the sea, glowing with soft, clear blue light, and paved with pure golden sands. Strange sea flowers and grasses waved about her, and far away faint singing and music echoed. The hearth brush fell from the work-roughened hand, and Lavinia Herbert looked round. "That girl has been listening," she said.
In an exclusive city boarding-school, and amid the pleasant surroundings of this home, her youth had been spent. I thought of a man and his wife at Possum Gully. The man was blear-eyed, disreputable in appearance, and failed to fulfil his duties as a father and a citizen. The woman was work-roughened and temper-soured by endless care and an unavailing struggle against poverty.
Lydia was standing before her, red, unwillingly civil, and Madame Beattie reached forward and took one of her little plump work-roughened hands, held it for a moment, as if in guarantee of kindliness, and then dropped it. "Now," said she, "who are you?" Jeffrey, seeing Lydia so put about, answered for her again, but this time in terms of a warmth which astonished him as it did Lydia.
He took the back off, and let her see the little wheel whirring back and forth. His eyes never left the child's serious, rosy face. Once or twice he laid his large, work-roughened hand gently on her dark hair. Dr.
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