José — page 141: what you’re looking at

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134 JOSH. alone among the uncouth fellows of the overland stage is exposed to many unthought-of dangers. Until then permit me to give the needed support to your position. May I offer my arm, Mary, to lead you to the table?” ‘“T hardly think, sir, I shall be able to eat any- thing after what has passed,” she said, slowly lowering her head in her hand; “you would oblige ~ me, however, by calling my father.” McGregor shook his head, and arose. “You grieve about nothing; still, do as you like. I shall tell your father,” he said, approaching the door which closed after him. When he was gone, the girl got up from her chair, visibly excited. For several minutes she paced rest- lessly up and down the room, pausing at short intervals to listen to an occasional, indistinct, noise below. Then she would resume her walk. Moments wore into minutes, minutes into hours. Everything was quiet in the neighborhood ot her room. She at length started up to call her maid, but only when she opened the door did it occur to her that she did not even know her name. Then the thought pos- sessed her to make a promenade through the house in search of her father, or at least Hattie, but as quickly she changed her mind at the thought of her total ignorance of the large building. As though intent on deciding at once what course to pursue, she sat down again, but soon she began to experi- ence the effects of her ride that morning, in the form of a keen appetite, that gradually became in-— sufferable. Going to the washstand in one corner of the room, she poured some water into a glass and drank it, to at least appease the demands of her stomach for the present. She then opened her trunk Gomichbooks (E(0)