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"What's the matter, Aunt Amelia?" they asked shortly. "We've got to catch this train." She faced them. "You can't go now. You've got to make them take that picture away." "Away!" Their blankness was stupefaction. She raged at them, the timid, harmless little thing, like a creature distraught. "Didn't you see it? Didn't you see it?"
After which, in her faint remembrance, there seemed to fall a mist, and a space of blankness, and then a starting up from a bed, and looking out of the doors of a tent, where many people gathered about a great fire, whose flames licked the heavens, and seemed to devour a Romany tent standing alone with a Romany wagon full of its household things.
I had never thought of anything else but being a soldier, you see, and it's a strange experience to have to face life afresh, with everything that you had expected taken out of it, and nothing ahead but blankness and disappointment. I've been so strong too as strong as a horse. If it hadn't been for that blow well, it's over! It's a comfort to me to feel that it was not my own fault.
He had no quarrel with that. But he did have a feud with circumstance, a profound resentment with the past for its hard dealing with his father, for the blankness of old Donald's last year or two on earth. And a good deal of this focused on Horace Gower and his works. "He might have let up on the old man," Jack MacRae would say to himself resentfully.
And then, once here in this loveliness, with everything so soft and kind and sweet all round, it would be easier to tell him, to try and explain, to ask for something different, for at least an attempt at something different in their lives in the future, instead of the blankness of separation, the cold oh, the cold of nothing at all but the great windiness of faith, the great bleakness of works.
Her face flushed, she saw it all all in prophetic vision stood out like an etching on the blankness of the future. "He will do nothing but draw pictures? Very well then, he shall draw pictures! He will draw so well that they shall adorn the churches of Leyden, and the Town Hall, and yes! even the churches of Amsterdam. Holland shall be proud of my boy!
The folk songs were singing in his soul, and the lines of Abel's We Are Free, the friendships of Spenski and Samarc, of these in the room, and the love of Berthe Wyndham. All had prevailed. The culmination was now. He thought of the actuality of to-morrow, but without terror, or blankness.
Joe opened his eyes and fixed them upon the missionary in a dreamy sort of a way, then closed them again, and soon passed off into a peaceful slumber. Steadily the wounded man recovered under the careful treatment he received. The blankness, caused by the concussion, which at the first enwrapped his mind, rolled away as a dark cloud vanishes from the mountain's brow.
Cornell's marriage and Mr. Spielhagen's business success both depended upon its being in the latter's hands before six in the morning, when he was engaged to hand it over to a certain manufacturer sailing for Europe on an early steamer. Five hours! Had Mr. Van Broecklyn a suggestion to offer? No, he was as much at sea as the rest. Simultaneously look crossed look. Blankness was on every face.
'It has no origin, was the unsatisfactory answer, after a momentary silence. Oh! the blankness of those faces! 'But, she resumed presently, 'if you ask how seeming evil originated, I may give you the ideas that came to me as a solution of that mortal mind question.
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