he was not compelled to exert himself, he relapsed into indifference toward everything but the possibility of watching her. Could she refuse sometimes to answer that beseeching look which she felt to be following her like a low murmur of love and pain? She refused it less and less, till at last the evening for them both was sometimes made of a moment’s mutual gaze; they thought of it till it came, and when it had come, they thought of nothing else.
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She looked playful reproach at Stephen, who was sauntering up and down, and was just singing in pianissimo falsetto —
“The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine.”
He took no notice, but still kept aloof; he had done so frequently during Philip’s recent visits.
“You don’t seem inclined for boating,” said Lucy, when he came to sit down by her on the bench. “Doesn’t rowing suit you now?”
“Oh, I hate a large party in a boat,” he said, almost irritably. “I’ll come when you have no one else.”
Lucy colored, fearing that Philip would be hurt; it was quite a new thing for Stephen to speak in that way; but he had certainly not been well of late. Philip colored too, but less from a feeling of personal offence than from a vague suspicion that Stephen’s moodiness had Bryan Little Jersey some relation to Maggie, who had started up from her chair as he spoke, and had walked toward the hedge of laurels to look Classic Czyścibut 5229 at the descending sunlight on the river.
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