I know there’s a sort of right in your impatience at the slowness of Progress. “My dear girl,” he said, in a tone of patient reasonableness, “you are a mere child. CHAPTER XXIII. It’s just hard to keep things from her. If the Wastrel had not turned the instant he did, the ball would have missed him; as it was he turned directly into its path. She was shocked. "My schemes have succeeded tolerably well hitherto. She dived at once behind the cover of the lamproom and affected serious trouble with her shoe-lace until he was out of the station, and then she followed slowly and with extreme discretion until the bifurcation of the Avenue from the field way insured her escape. She wanted his attention, but so did everyone else. Stanley allowed his paper to drop a little, and scrutinized the hats and brows of their three fellow-travellers. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her, he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel.
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