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He could not have told exactly why he felt a pang of remorse at the sight, and doubtless it was more regret for having taken the Grosvenor Green flat than for not having taken the widow's rooms. Still, he could not forget her wistfulness when his wife and he were looking at them, and her disappointment when they decided against them. He had toyed, in, his after-talk to Mrs.
"I take the chair," she said, as if in burlesque assumption of the guidance of some public meeting, "but not as any 'Mrs. Bates. You know, David, that I haven't come here to be treated with any such formality as that." He looked at her with a half-smiling wistfulness, as if he would be glad enough to take her tone, were the thing only possible.
A number of the men of the camp came to visit there again that evening. "We thought little Skeezucks might be lonesome," they explained. So often as the door was opened, the pup and the grave little pilgrim clothed these days in the little white frock Miss Dennihan had made looked up, ever in the hope, of espying again those three red caps. The men saw the wistfulness increase in the baby's face.
I have had my dreams!" he answered, his eyes gazing with a momentary wistfulness across the orange trees. Then we talked at random, as friendly strangers talk over luncheon, though we were glad enough that he should do all the talking wonderful, iridescent, madcap talk, such as a man here and there in ten thousand, gifted with perhaps the most attractive of all human gifts, has at his command.
And then I would try to swallow down within me the beauty and wistfulness of it all, and run back to mash the potatoes. Peg drew Parnassus along the backward road with a merry little rumble. I think she knew we were going back to the Professor. Bock careered mightily along the wayside. And I had much time for thinking. On the whole, I was glad; for I had much to ponder.
Toby's face lighted up for a second, and then clouded again. She glanced at him doubtfully. "If Paris amuses you " she ventured. "Paris does not amuse me," said Saltash emphatically. "Have a cigarette, ma chère, while I go and dress." "Can I help you dress?" said Toby, with a touch of wistfulness. "I have put everything ready." His odd eyes flashed her a smile. "Not here, chérie, not now.
"It is so lovely," said Miss Alicia, turning to him almost solemnly, "that sometimes it makes one really lose one's breath." He looked out of the window with sudden wistfulness. "I wish Ann " he began and then, seeing the repressed question in her eyes, made up his mind. He told her about Little Ann. He did not use very many words, but she knew a great deal when he had finished.
He broke off, then with sudden decision added: "Soon you two will realize that to join me will be your best course. And best for all the worlds, for it will bring to them all peace and health and happiness.... No, I ask no decision from you now. Nor from you, Lady Elza." His gaze softened as he regarded her softened almost to a quantity of wistfulness. "You know, Lady Elza, for what I am striving.
He kissed her cheek. "By the way, though, does it ever occur to you to think of the Bhutpur Sultan-i-bagh and wish to go East again?" And Damaris, with still uplifted chin, surveyed him gravely and with a certain wistfulness, Miss Felicia's attempted poaching forgotten and an impression of Faircloth vividly overtaking her.
Once or twice the man rose and walked up and down the narrow room, or gazed absently from the windows of the pilot-house, but never by look or sign betrayed the slightest consciousness of his companion. At such times the Princess from her nest by the fire followed him with eyes of canine expectancy and wistfulness.
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