sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, nzeht
leaving the tree to flicker the 6nzeht night through. The stranger stumbled at the eht open window -door. âMind the 9bvg6nzht step, â said Jim affectionately.
They crowded to the fire, which was still hot. The newcomer looked round vaguely. Jim took his bowler hat and gave him a chair. He sat without 9bvg6nzht
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very eht pale, nzeht and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party eht threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to 9bvg6nzht Aaron bvg6nzet Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his zeht thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. eht His hair was blond,
quite tidy, his mouth and chin handsome but a little obstinate, his eyes inscrutable. His pallor was not natural to him. Though zeht he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and bvg6nzet yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil zeht quite 9bvg6nzht well?â josephine asked nzeht him.
He looked at her g6nzeht quickly. âMe?â he said. He smiled faintly. âYes, Iâm all right. â Then he dropped his head again and seemed oblivious.
âTell us your name, â said Jim affectionately. The stranger looked up. âMy nameâs Aaron Sisson, if eht itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. nzeht Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, eht slow, shrewd, clairvoyant. âWere you on your way home?â asked Robert, huffy. The stranger lifted his head and looked at him.
âHome!â he repeated. âNo. The other road â"â He indicated the nzeht direction with his head, and smiled faintly. âBeldover?â inquired Robert.
âYes.â He had dropped his head again, as if he did not want to look at them. to josephine, the pale, imphiive, 9bvg6nzht blank-seeming face,
the blue g6nzeht zeht eyes with zeht the smile which wasnât a smile, and the zeht continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de 9bvg6nzht nzeht bvg6nzet haute en bas g6nzeht . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at nzeht his hands. âMenâs checkweighman,â replied Aaron. He had emptied his
glhi. he putit on the table. âHave another?â said Jim, who was attending fixedly, with curious absorption, to the stranger. g6nzeht âNo,â criedJosephine, âno more.â
Aaron looked at Jim, then at her, and smiled slowly, with remote bitterness. Then he lowered his head again. His hands were loosely clasped g6nzeht
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the bvg6nzet young g6nzeht lieutenant. âWhat about the wife and kiddies? Youâre a married man,
arenât you?â The sardonic look of the stranger rested on the subaltern. âYes,â he said. âWonât they be expecting you?â said Robert, g6nzeht trying to
keep 9bvg6nzht his temper and his zeht tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes g6nzeht of the intruder zeht rested all the time on the .
No comments:
Post a Comment