Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 256: what you’re looking at

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248 WHICH WILL WIN? CHAPTER XXX. WHICH WILL WIN? Gypsy utters no sound, but her hand mechanically reaches again for the glasses. It is a momentous period of her life, when for the first time since she was a child she gazes upon the face of her mother. Bob, watching the lady in the box, sees her sweep her glance around the house, as though looking for a familiar face. What will happen when she sees Gypsy? Will that mother-heart be pierced by some intuitive feeling? Will she show deep emotion ? The seconds pass. Bob will soon know. Now the lady focuses her glass upon them. Bob’s eyes are keen, and he is sure she starts visibly. At any rate, she holds it upon them long and earnestly. Does Gypsy feel the power of that gaze? She smiles as Bob believes no other human being can smile; it is next to angelic. The lady in the box lowers her glass. She is almost overcome by some emotion. ‘They see her turn toward her elderly companion as though to call his attention to the face that has caused her such deep emotion. Will Squire Gordon recognize his granddaughter? Unless age and his recent trials have dimmed his sight and faculties, he is very apt to do so. Bob 1s alarmed. ‘‘Look the other way, my dear; let him see only the side view of your face,’’ he whispers, and Gypsy obeys without asking why. CEOPMNIClOOKS COMA)