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It was a passionate, loving, thankful, womanly action, but the hand made no response--dropped cold and heavy, and took to its knitting again.
"My meaning," answered the man of business, "is, of course, friendly and appreciative, and that it does you the greatest credit, and--in short, my meaning is everything you could desire.
He had a healthy colour in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety.
"I've seen many a drunk chap in my time," he said, "but never anyone so cryin' drunk as that cove.