sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, xawv4
leaving the tree to flicker the 6xawv4 night through. The stranger stumbled at the wv4 open window -door. âMind the ys156xav4 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 ys156xav4
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very wv4 pale, xawv4 and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party wv4 threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to ys156xav4 Aaron s156xaw4 Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his awv4 thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. wv4 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 awv4 he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and s156xaw4 yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil awv4 quite ys156xav4 well?â josephine asked xawv4 him.
He looked at her 56xawv4 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 wv4 itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. xawv4 Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, wv4 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 xawv4 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, ys156xav4 blank-seeming face,
the blue 56xawv4 awv4 eyes with awv4 the smile which wasnât a smile, and the awv4 continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de ys156xav4 xawv4 s156xaw4 haute en bas 56xawv4 . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at xawv4 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. 56xawv4 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 56xawv4
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the s156xaw4 young 56xawv4 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, 56xawv4 trying to
keep ys156xav4 his temper and his awv4 tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes 56xawv4 of the intruder awv4 rested all the time on the .
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