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There was something, it seemed to him, that the wrong word would bring down on his head, something that would so at least ease off his tension. But he wanted not to speak the wrong word; that would make everything ugly. THERE WAS SOMETHING IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT THE WRONG WORD WOULD BRING DOWN ON HIS HEAD SOMETHING THAT WOULD SO AT LEAST EASE OFF HIS TENSION BUT HE WANTED NOT TO SPEAK THE WRONG WORD THAT WOULD MAKE EVERYTHING UGLY
ay, so that she might sit with folded hands and with nothing more to do. She was "out of it," to Marcher's vision; her work was over; she communicated with him as across some gulf or from some island of rest that she had already reached, and it made him feel strangely abandoned. Was it--or rather wasn't it--that if for so long she had been watching with him the answer to their question must have swum into her ken and taken on its name, so that her occupation was verily gone? He had as much as charged her with this in saying to her, many months before, that she even then knew something she was keeping from him. It was a point he had never since ventured to press, vaguely fearing as he did that it might become a difference, perhaps a disagreement, between them. He had in this later time turned nervous, which was what he in all the other years had never been; and the oddity was that his nervousness should have waited till he had begun to doubt, should have held off so long as he was sure. N WOUND UP TUCKED IN PUT AWAY SO THAT SHE MIGHT SIT WITH FOLDED HANDS AND WITH NOTHING MORE TO DO SHE WAS OUT OF IT TO MARCHER'S VISION HER WORK WAS OVER SHE COMMUNICATED WITH HIM AS ACROSS SOME GULF OR FROM SOME ISLAND OF REST THAT SHE HAD ALREADY REACHED AND IT MADE HIM FEEL STRANGELY ABANDONED WAS IT OR RATHER WASN'T IT THAT IF FOR SO LONG SHE HAD BEEN WATCHING WITH HIM THE ANSWER TO THEIR QUESTION MUST HAVE SWUM INTO HER KEN AND TAKEN ON ITS NAME SO THAT HER OCCUPATION WAS VERILY GONE HE HAD AS MUCH AS CHARGED HER WITH THIS IN SAYING HER MANY MONTHS BEFORE THAT SHE EVEN THEN KNEW SOMETHING SHE WAS KEEPING FROM HIM IT WAS A POINT HE HAD NEVER SINCE VENTURED TO PRESS VAGUELY FEARING AS HE DID THAT IT MIGHT BECOME A DIFFERENCE PERHAPS A DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THEM HE HAD IN THIS LATER TIME TURNED NERVOUS WHICH WAS WHAT HE IN ALL THE OTHER YEARS HAD NEVER BEEN AND THE ODDITY WAS THAT HIS NERVOUSNESS SHOULD HAVE WAITED TILL HE HAD BEGUN TO DOUBT SHOULD HAVE HELD OFF SO LONG AS HE WAS SURE
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