sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, 2zjvm
leaving the tree to flicker the q2zjvm night through. The stranger stumbled at the jvm open window -door. âMind the 38plq2zvm 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 38plq2zvm
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very jvm pale, 2zjvm and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party jvm threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to 38plq2zvm Aaron 8plq2zjm Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his zjvm thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. jvm 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 zjvm he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and 8plq2zjm yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil zjvm quite 38plq2zvm well?â josephine asked 2zjvm him.
He looked at her lq2zjvm 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 jvm itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. 2zjvm Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, jvm 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 2zjvm 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, 38plq2zvm blank-seeming face,
the blue lq2zjvm zjvm eyes with zjvm the smile which wasnât a smile, and the zjvm continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de 38plq2zvm 2zjvm 8plq2zjm haute en bas lq2zjvm . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at 2zjvm 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. lq2zjvm 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 lq2zjvm
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the 8plq2zjm young lq2zjvm 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, lq2zjvm trying to
keep 38plq2zvm his temper and his zjvm tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes lq2zjvm of the intruder zjvm rested all the time on the .
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