for he could feel their eager eyes and their eager words as clearly as he could hear their scratching pens. And all for the papers — his blanching fa… - Theodore Dreiser

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for he could feel their eager eyes and their eager words as clearly as he could hear their scratching pens. And all for the papers — his blanching face and trembling hands — they would have that down — and his mother in Denver and everybody else there in Lycurgus would see and read — how he had looked at the Aldens and they had looked at him and then he had looked away again.