advanced, and without seeking an excuse for his action, sat down close by my side. The fan at once dropped; I had no wish to avoid this man’s scrutiny.
And yet when with a secret bracing of my nerves I looked up and met his eyes fixed with that baffling expression upon mine, I own that I felt an inward alarm, as if something vaguely dangerous had reared itself in my path, which by its very charm instinctively bade me beware. I, however, subdued my apprehensions, thinking, with a certain haughty pride which I fear will never be eliminated from my nature, of the dangers I had already met with and overcome in my brief but troubled life; and meeting his look with a smile which I knew to contain a spice of Peru Trikot audacity, I calmly waited for the words I felt to be hovering upon his lips. They were scarcely the ones I expected.
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I bowed. I was too much disconcerted to speak.
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“She told you my mother was stricken at the sudden news of Mr. Barrows’ death?”
“That was told me,” I answered; for this was a direct question, put, too, with an effort I could not help but feel, notwithstanding the evident wish on his part to preserve an appearance of calmness.
“Then some explanation is needed,” he remarked, his eyes flashing from his mother’s face to mine with equal force and intentness. “My mother”— his words were low, but Spielertrikots it was impossible not to hear them —“has not been well since my father died, two months ago. It needed but the slightest shock to produce the result you unhappily see Kolumbien Trikot before you. That shock this very girl supplied by the inconsiderate relation of Mr. Barrows’ fearful fate. Maillot Hongrie We have taken a prejudice against the girl, in consequence. Do you blame us? This is our mother.”
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“I only hope death will not follow the frightful occurrence,” he concluded; and do what he would, his features became drawn, and his face white, as his looks wandered back to his mother.
A sudden impulse seized me.
“Another death, you mean,” said I; “one already has marked the event, though it happened only a few short hours alinks:
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