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After a while, as Vollenhoven looked at him rather blankly, the learned man condescended to speak to him in simpler phrase. "It is probably like Rip Donderdunck's case," he exclaimed in a low, mumbling tone. "He fell from the top of Voppelploot's windmill. After the accident the man was stupid and finally became idiotic.
Then as Jack Vance and Diggory stood staring blankly at each other in the deepening winter twilight, they suddenly blossomed out into heroes heroes, it is true, in flannel cricket-caps and turned-down collars, but heroes, at all events to my mind, as genuine in the spirit which prompted their action as those whose deeds are known in song and story.
"Her own name!" he echoed blankly. "Do you mean she made one up?" Harriet nodded. "Constance mentioned it," she said, "but that was before I knew what she was talking about. And of course I couldn't go back and ask. Daphne something, I think. It sounded exactly like a chorus name, anyhow." And then: "Well, how about it? Will you play the game?"
"Then I says thankye, Master Aleck, and I won't forget it, for it was very hansum on yer." "What was?" said the lad, starting. "What was? Why, you licking that big ugly lout, my lad, for calling me names." "No, no, no," cried Aleck, quickly; "it was not for that." "Why, you said just now as you did, Master Aleck," said the sailor, blankly. "Oh, no; you misunderstood me, Tom. It was not for that."
Yet, after we had taken care of Miss Langdale and matters had quieted down, I thought I might get some idea of the cause of the fracas and asked him if he knew of any reason. Why, he looked at me kind of blankly, and I swear he acted as though he had almost forgotten it already. I tell you, he's not RIGHT." Remembering our own experience, I glanced significantly at Craig. "Korsakoff's syndrome?"
When the boat struck the sand, I was again the first to jump out, and right away I accosted a skinny urchin standing nearby, asking him where the middle school was. The kid answered blankly that he did not know. Confound the dull-head! Not to know where the middle school was, living in such a tiny bit of a town.
The ladies and gentlemen sat down together in the Oak Room at eight o'clock, and had finished their soup and fish, when a message came from the Queen to know who had given the order that they were to dine without her. The company stared blankly at each other, finished their dinner with what appetite they might, and adjourned to the drawing-room, when they were told that her Majesty was coming.
"Good-morning, Uncle Pete," he said, in hearty greeting, when he saw who it was that sought admittance. "Good-morning, Henry and what are you doing in there?" returned the workman, who had known the man from his boyhood. The other grinned. "Oh, I'm one of the guards at this institution now." Pete looked at him blankly. "Guards? What are you guarding, Henry?"
'Why, you are! he replied. 'You don't suppose you take them in, do you? They know all about you, bless your heart! 'Oh, do they? I said blankly. This brute took a positive pleasure, I believe, in reducing my self-esteem. 'I dare say it has got about through Wild Rose, he continued. 'She was immensely tickled when I told her.
He is a man of splendid nerve, your husband. He seemed to treat the whole affair as an excellent joke." "A joke!" she repeated blankly. "This sort of thing happens so often in Monte Carlo," he observed, in a matter-of-fact tone. "The hotel people seem all to look upon it as in the day's work." "I wonder if Henry had my note?" she faltered.
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