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Were it not for a half-defiant, half-sullen dread of the coht have put it fro nervous tension and the steady dull consciousness of desire He drew another Sirdar fro the frail fragrant cigarette to bits between his fingers

After a while he began to walk th of the corridor, like ahis steps to the heavy ache of body or mind Once he went as far as his own door, entered, and stepping to the wash-basin, let the icy water run over hands and wrists This sometimes helped to stih to change the current of his thoughts to the girl he had hoped ht have the ih in itself, yet unconventional and unreasonable enough to prove attractive to them both

Probably she wouldn't come; she had kept her fluffy skirts clear of hiue estimate of her Had she done the contrary, his estimate would have been the saed her A girl who could capture Quarrier at full noontide, and in the face of all Manhattan, was a girl equipped for anything she dared--though she was probably too clever to dare too irl to be interested in, to airl to be reckoned with His restlessness and his fever subdued by the icy water, he stood drying his hands, thinking, coolly, how close he had coirl, whose attitude was always a curious te provocation, whose youth and beauty were to hie He admitted to himself, calmly, that he had never seen a woman he cared as much for; that for the brief moment of his declaration he had known an utterly new emotion, which inevitably must have become the love he had so quietly declared it to be He had never before felt as he felt then, cared as he cared then Anything had been possible for hienerous renunciation Clear-sighted, master of himself, he saw love before hinised it, was ready for it, offered it, emboldened by her soft hands so eloquent in his

And in his arht, spite of the sudden inertia, spite of the according of cold lips and hands still colder, relaxed, inert; held it until he doubted That was all; he had been wise to doubt such sudden , had soon set hiht And, after all, she liked hih of herself to permit the impulse of a moment to carry her with him--a little way, a very little way--ernised in him