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Presently I was moving sombrely off through the darkness, Jeeves at my side, Aunt Dahlia calling after me something about trying to imagine myself the man who brought the good news from Ghent to Aix. The first I had heard of the chap. "So, Jeeves," I said, as we reached the shed, and my voice was cold and bitter, "this is what your great scheme has accomplished!
The boy himself was a centre of calm in the agitated room, except for the constant movement of the head. He seemed to perceive something familiar in his mother's face, but when she put out a feeble hand to him, and tried to kiss him, he began to whimper. Her expression changed at once; with what strength she had she pushed him away. "Il est afreux!" she said sombrely, closing her eyes.
At once the fire went out and the lamp faded away, the room fell sombrely into neglect and squalor, and the soldier and the children faded away with the room; all disappeared phantasmally, and nothing remained but the helmet in a kind of glow on the wall, and the woman sitting all by herself in the darkness. ``It has all gone, said the Kaiser. ``It has never been, said the phantom.
"It was necessary to end this romantic masquerade!" insisted Tregar. "Why are you here?" "I I came in a flash of panic. It seemed to me that after all I I could not trust to other hands when the dead thing stirred." Ronador's face was white and haggard. In that instant his forty-four years lay heavily upon his shoulders. "Have I ever misplaced your trust?" reminded Tregar sombrely.
'I wouldn't eat a morsel if she went down on her bended knees to me, the lad broke out, and, springing up, he strode sombrely through the yard and into the fields. Reuben went slowly back into the house. Hannah was in the parlour so he saw through the half-opened door. He went into the room, which smelt musty and close from disuse.
The pedestrians were sombrely garbed, and went about in "rubbers" the most depressing of all articles worn by man. Sodden piles of snow still hid the curb and gutters, but the pavements were trailed with mud that gleamed in the light from the shop windows.
It seemed to him that their entry was that of persons into a hostile camp, the senses all alert against attack. Delia was of course in black, her face sombrely brilliant in its dark setting of a plain felt hat, like the hat of a Cavalier without its feathers. "She knows perfectly well we have been talking about her!" thought Dr. France, "that we have seen the newspapers.
Her intention was arrested by the sight of that awful, sombrely glistening door, swinging back suddenly on the yawning darkness of the hall, out of which literally flew out, right out on the pavement, almost without touching the white steps, a little figure swathed in a holland pinafore up to the chin, its hair streaming back from its head, darting past a lamp-post, past the red pillar-box . . . "Here," cried Mrs.
Stephens had suggested as a possible way out of the present, intolerable situation. "No," he says sombrely, "no, Nancy, I have brought you no good news, and I am beginning to fear I never shall." And he does not see even now that the long quivering sigh which escapes from her pale lips is a sigh of unutterable if of pained and shamed relief.
They turned on the lights, but throughout the frightful storm that followed, Piers leaned against the window-frame sombrely watching. Avery sat on a sofa with Jeanie, her throbbing head leaning against the cushions, her eyes closed. Nearly half an hour passed thus, then the storm rolled sullenly away; and at last Piers turned. As though his look pierced her, Avery's eyes opened.
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