In Sight of St. Paul's — page 103: what you’re looking at

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- be aS BROKEN DOWN. “Dad, I don’t want to hear anything about what’s past, so there’s an end to it.” “If you won’t listen,’’? replied Mr. Chichester, weakly, and with a certain irritability, ‘‘I shall go away.”’ Tom, still with his hands upon his father’s shoul- ders, answered, with much tenderness: ‘Well, father, I'll listen.’ Mr. Chichester tried to speak. He passed his hand nervously across his lips, and then looked about him. As he saw the others who were watching him, he ap- peared confused and unable to say what he wanted in | their presence. Tom watched him with the greatest anxiety. It was terrible for him to see his father so broken. Fletcher, too, read the old man’s thoughts, and he said to Gracie, in a low voice: ‘“‘Come and look out of the window. ‘The view is immense. ”’ Gracie followed him to the window, where the out- look, with the myriad sparkling lights of the great city, was really superb. ‘‘Shall we go away??? murmured Aileen to ‘Tom. ‘I can’t bear to see him suffer.”’ ‘“Go to Gracie.”’ Mr. Chichester had come close to the mantle-piece, and was leaning his head upon his hand, gazing va- cantly into the fire. GEomicbooks. co m