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"Three dollas," said the shoeman in a surprise which he could not conceal at Clementina's courage. She laughed, and stooped to untie the slippers. "That's too much for me." "Let me untie 'em, Clem," said the big girl. "It's a shame for you eva to take 'em off." "That's right, lady," said the shoeman. "And you don't eva need to," he added, to Clementina, "unless you object to sleepin' in 'em.
Wogan, without moving his head or opening his eyes a fraction wider, looked down the staircase and saw just above the edge of one of the steep stairs a face watching them, a face with bright, birdlike eyes and an indescribable expression of cunning. Wogan had need of all his self-control. He felt that his eyelids were fluttering on his cheeks, that his breath had stopped even as Clementina's had.
Milray was not wholly sorry to have her go; she was going herself very soon, and Clementina's earlier departure simplified the question of getting rid of her; but she overwhelmed her with reproaches which Clementina received with such sweet sincerity that another than Mrs. Milray might have blamed herself for having abused her ingenuousness.
The whole heaven seemed pressing down their lids. The breath which he modelled into words seemed to come in little billows. But his words had raised a storm in Clementina's bosom. A cry broke from her, as if driven forth by pain. She called up all the energy of her nature, and stilled herself to speak.
Lander had not begun to make such constant use of him until Hinkle had gone; Mrs. Milray had told him of Clementina's earlier romance, and it was to Gregory that the vice-consul related the anxiety which he knew as little in its nature as in its object.
"You could go, perfectly well, Miss Claxon," said the doctor. "No, I don't ca'e to go," answered Clementina. "I'd ratha stay. If she should wake " "She won't wake, until long after you've got back; I'll answer for that. I'm going to stay here awhile. Go! I'll take the responsibility." Clementina's face brightened. She wanted very much to go.
She only got an inkling of it from various phenomena that struck her from time to time, such as the polite attentions of the baron, the whispering of the domestics, the altered attitude towards her of the various members of the family who now addressed her in the tone you employ when speaking to a baroness that is to be. And then there was Clementina's chatter!
For even while he found himself muttering over and over with dry lips, as white and exhausted he leaned against the door, Clementina's qualifications, "Daughter of the King of Poland, cousin to the Emperor and to the King of Portugal, niece to the Electors of Treves, Bavaria, and Palatine," the image of the girl herself rose up before his eyes and struck her titles from his thoughts.
He had in his truthfulness and independence hitherto always been quite free from that feeble admiration of cynicism which attacks the intellectually weak and immature, and his present predilection may have been due more to her charming personality. She was not at all like his sisters; she had none of Clementina's cold abstraction, and none of Euphemia's sharp and demonstrative effusiveness.
To enable me to lend you the L5,000, and to enable me to join you in this speculation, L10,000 has been withdrawn from Clementina's fortune. 'I know nothing about that, said Scott. 'Know nothing about it! said Alaric, looking at him with withering scorn. But Undy was not made of withering material, and did not care a straw for his friend's scorn. 'Nothing whatever, said he.
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