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The remark in its childishness, callousness, and considerateness struck him as one of the most revealing she had made. He laughed icily. "Our laws only allow of divorce for one cause and I advise you not to seek freedom for yourself or for me by disgracing yourself. It's not worth it. The conventions you scorn have their solid value." She had now turned her head and was looking at him.
Instead, he laughed with a hollow callousness and replied, "Shoot ef ye've a mind ter. I hain't goin' ter stir a step ter foller ye." But masked men closed in and caught his misshapen elbows, and the voice that had first accosted him went on in the level tones of its disguise: "We don't aim ter harm ye, Hump; leastways not yit but we aims ter show ye somethin' we've brought ye fer a gift."
That man, the pride of his university, the rising hope of the Royal Society, the professor whom students would have idolized, was bending his superb head over a poor, groaning sailorman, and performing a hard operation amid air that was merely volatile sewage! A few men looked on; they are kind, but they all suffer so much that the suffering of others is watched with passive callousness.
So much thoughtlessness of others; such callousness to sorrows not my own: my hard heart has often reproached thee for sparing a sigh or a wish from me; that every gloom has not been dispelled by my presence, was treason, forsooth, against my majesty, and the murmurs that delighted love should breathe, to welcome thy return, were changed into half-vindictive reluctance, not quite a frown, and upbraidings, in which tenderness was almost turned out of door by anger.
During this monologue the pair had strolled far afield with their cigars, and Langholm was beginning to puff his furiously. At first he had merely marvelled at the other's coolness; now every feeling in his breast was outraged by the callousness, the flippancy, the cynicism of his companion. There came a moment when Langholm could endure the combination no longer.
She never loved you, my Ralph; for she cares nothing when I speak your name, as I have done two or three times; nor yet Master More either. I think she has no heart." Ralph had wondered a little as he read this, at his mother's curious interest in the girl; and he wondered too at the report of Beatrice's callousness. It was her damned pride, he assured himself.
Is there any possibility of my finding it laid away in some drawer at Headquarters or on some dusty shelf?" Mr. Black was again astonished. Was this callousness or a very deep and determined purpose. "I don't know. I never go pottering about at Headquarters. What do you want to see that for? What help can you get out of that?" "None probably; but in the presence of defeat you grasp at every hope.
His callousness to the danger of his country's disintegration, from the incessant, becoming overt, attacks of a foreign priesthood might an indignant great lady's precipitation to prophecy said would bring chastisement on him.
Will a foolish jest, or a proud callousness, or a subtle argument, or a brave indifference to what others fear, enable you, on the resurrection morning, to shut your ears against the sound of the last trump, or to disobey the summons of the Son of God to rise from the tomb, and to appear before Him?
She looked down at the clerks, who had been on their feet steadily since eight o'clock, and began to understand the callousness of their expressions. A great throb of pity for them, rather than for herself, dimmed her eyes for an instant so that she could not see her packages. During that first few hours Faith could not help noticing how often Number 89 sent up goods to be wrapped.
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