Well he knew why their hands were rough; but this hand of
hers .
His hand went out impulsively to
hers, but she avoided the clasp by a sort of bodily stiffening and chill, the while the eyes smiled still more gloriously.
Then suddenly a terrible shriek- it could not be
hers, she could not scream like that- came from the bedroom.
For
hers was not a sensual, pleasure-loving nature.
The more private inquiries I conduct for my fair relative the harder she will find it to get rid of
hers truly, Horatio Wragge.
She has abilities, however, as well as affections; and it is now a doubtful point whether his cunning, or
hers, may finally carry the day; whether, after preventing
her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at last into making
her the wife of Sir William.
The fact that he had no right to show his feelings, and thus provoke the expression of
hers, made him attach a fantastic importance to every change in
her look and tone.
She felt safer with the feel of his arm against
hers, and with the contact of
her the man took a new grip upon himself.
As she talked, Billy followed
her solemnly, his eyes steadily turned on
hers.
I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against
hers.
First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny hands were clasped upon
her knee, and the bright eager eyes were looking up into
hers--she could hear the very tones of
her voice, and see that queer little toss of
her head to keep back the wandering hair that WOULD always get into
her eyes--and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole place around
her became alive the strange creatures of
her little sister's dream.
And what sort of crisis might not this be in three lives whose contact with
hers laid an obligation on
her as if they had been suppliants bearing the sacred branch?
