1 Her friend threw out an arresting hand.
2 She laid a deprecating hand on her friend's.
3 She let her hand lie in his a moment, smiling up at him adorably.
4 She drew back the hand he had regained, and sat looking down on him sadly.
5 He had drawn out his cigarettes as he spoke, and she reached her hand toward the case.
6 She looked languid, full of a suffering sweetness; she carried a scent-bottle in her hand.
7 She took one with an unsteady hand, and putting it to her lips, leaned forward to draw her light from his.
8 She held out her hand as the train resumed its level rush, and they stood exchanging a few words in the aisle.
9 As she passed Mr. Gryce, the train gave a lurch, and he was aware of a slender hand gripping the back of his chair.
10 He followed her across the room to the entrance-hall; but on the threshold she held out her hand with a gesture of leave-taking.
11 The little flame under his hand cast a deeper crimson on his puffing face, and Lily averted her eyes with a momentary feeling of repugnance.
12 Her face brightened at this, but she drew her hand away, not with a gesture of coquetry, but as though renouncing something to which she had no claim.
13 Even the immediate one of letting Trenor, as they drove homeward, lean a little nearer and rest his hand reassuringly on hers, cost her only a momentary shiver of reluctance.
14 "You're very kind; but I couldn't think of troubling you," she said, extending her hand to Mr. Rosedale; and heedless of his protestations, she sprang into the rescuing vehicle, and called out a breathless order to the driver.
15 As he watched her hand, polished as a bit of old ivory, with its slender pink nails, and the sapphire bracelet slipping over her wrist, he was struck with the irony of suggesting to her such a life as his cousin Gertrude Farish had chosen.
16 These, for the moment, took the shape of assuming a dress somewhat more rustic and summerlike in style than the garment she had first selected, and rustling downstairs, sunshade in hand, with the disengaged air of a lady in quest of exercise.
17 For this reason he had been especially pleased to learn that she would, as usual, attend the young Trenors to church on Sunday morning; and as he paced the gravel sweep before the door, his light overcoat on his arm and his prayer-book in one carefully-gloved hand, he reflected agreeably on the strength of character which kept her true to her early training in surroundings so subversive to religious principles.
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