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  • Waymark's conductor held a piece of paper to the flame, and lit a lamp.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • Mrs. Enderby asked few questions about him, and Maud was silent after she had explained Waymark's position, so far as she was acquainted with it, and how she had come to know him.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • It was a little better when the meeting was at Waymark's, but even then Julian was anything but at his ease.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • This absence had no reason beyond Waymark's choice.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • Harriet did not like to be left alone in the evening, so Julian could not go to Waymark's, as he had been accustomed to, and conversation in Mrs. Casti's presence was, of course, under restraint.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • His first evening there was spent in Waymark's company, and there was much talk of the progress his writing would make, now that his hours of liberty were so considerably extended.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • Waymark's absence that evening had been voluntary.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • In the early days of October, Waymark's book appeared.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • Sunday morning -- when Waymark's letter had already been posted -- he awoke with a headache, continued from the night before.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

  • In Waymark's character there was something which women found very attractive; strength and individuality are perhaps the words that best express what it was, though these qualities would not in themselves have sufficed to give him his influence, without a certain gracefulness of inward homage which manifested itself when he talked with women, a suggestion, too, of underlying passion which works subtly on a woman's imagination.

    The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

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