He took the first step toward the stairs, and met the restraining hand of McClintock. ’ ‘Don’t you believe it. ’ Gerald knew the caress in his voice was a trifle ironic. It seemed to them they could never have been really alive before, but only dimly anticipating existence. Sc. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. Their conversation became stilted. While the carpenter irresolutely quitted the room, with a strong presentiment of ill upon his mind, a light quick step was heard descending the stairs, and before he could call out to prevent it, a man was admitted into the passage.
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