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"I know it," she interrupted, with a half-impatient, half uneasy putting away of the subject with her little hand "there don't go all over it again. Paw and Maw have been at me about it all night ever since those Harrisons in their anxiousness to make up their quarrel, rushed over with the news. I'm tired of it!" For an instant he was staggered. How much had she learned!
She saw the figure of the man turn away as if to go; but the woman caught him by the arm, and lifted her beautiful, guilty face up toward his as if beseeching him for a parting kiss. She saw him stoop his dark, bearded head, with a half-impatient gesture, and kiss the beautiful woman's mouth, then motion her toward the house.
He did not reply, but taking her hand in his continued to move slowly on through the underbrush, as if obeying some magnetic attraction. "How did you find it?" again asked the half-awed girl, her voice unconsciously falling to a whisper. Still silent, Low kept his rigid face and forward tread for twenty yards further; then he stopped and released the girl's half-impatient hand.
Why did they teach them anything at all? The same impression, the sense of a half-impatient, half-exasperated tuition came to her from the lectures of Herr Winter and Herr Schraub. Herr Winter, a thin tall withered-looking man with shabby hair and bony hands whose veins stood up in knots, drummed on the table as he taught botany and geography.
He had been sitting silent beside her on the sofa for some little time, apparently toying with the evening papers, which Mrs. Watton had relinquished to him. Mrs. Watton looked up, followed the direction of his eyes towards a settee in a distant corner of the room, and showed a half-impatient amusement. "Letty? Oh! Letty's my niece the daughter of my brother, Walter Sewell, of Helbeck.
Madame de Réchamp was shining on her son through tears. "Ah, yes we owe it all to Yvonne." "All, all! Grandmamma will tell you!" Simone chimed in; and Yvonne, brushing aside their praise with a half-impatient laugh, said to her betrothed: "But your grandmother! You must go up to her at once." A wonderful specimen, that grandmother: I was taken to see her after dinner.
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