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Updated: July 31, 2024
She sat for some moments, thinking hard, one hand fingering the slender base of the wine-filled glass in front of her, the other dropped in pensive limpness at her side. Flint had cleared the space in front of him of everything but his two wine-glasses. He had slipped down in his seat and his two bloodshot eyes were fixing her with a level stare. She stirred finally and rose.
In what other way can a helpless, delicate crock like myself show his gratitude and in some sort of little way serve his country?" When the sympathetic and wine-filled guest would ask what was the nature of his malady, he would tap his chest vaguely and reply: "Constitutional. I've never been able to do things like other fellows. The least thing bowls me out."
For I was made drink-boy, and amongst my earliest recollections are toddling with the wine-filled skull of Guthlaf to the head of the table where Tostig bellowed to the rafters. They were madmen, all of madness, but it seemed the common way of life to me who knew naught else. They were men of quick rages and quick battling.
The clock behind him struck a silver note, and instantly this vain fantasy vanished; what was the use of regarding the two wine-filled cups when he knew that Nina was far and far away? He sprang to his feet and went to the window, and gazed out into the black and formless chaos beyond. "Nina!" he called, "Nina! Nina!" as if he would pierce the hollow distance with this passionate cry.
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