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"Yes, he has gone," she said, and all the passion was gone from her voice, which was much more terrible in its calm. "You don't mean with ?" "Yes; he has gone with Aggie." Eva spoke in a voice like a deaf-mute's, quite free from inflections. There was something dreadful about her rigid attitude. Little Amabel looked at her mother's eyes, then cowered down and began to cry aloud.
He expressed this view, somewhat after this fashion, to his mother, who looked at him as if he had been dancing a jig. He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things that he might as well address her in the deaf-mute's alphabet. "I don't think I know what you mean," she said; "you use too many figures of speech; I could never understand allegories.
He permitted no pause until they reached the car, the engine of which had not been stopped. "Quick, for your lives!" he ordered, as he leaped in. Pendleton and Burgess followed instantly. The car had scarcely begun its plunge forward when a horrible rending shock staggered them. And as they sped away the debris of the deaf-mute's work-shop was falling all about them.
'Pierre et Camille' is a pretty but slight tale of a deaf-mute's love. His greatest work, 'Confession d'un Enfant du Siecle', crowned with acclaim by the French Academy, and classic for all time, was written in 1836, when the poet, somewhat recovered from the shock, relates his unhappy Italian experience.
Vain, vain! for the moment that a knocking was heard at his door the sun went behind a cloud, the bright stream of dancing motes vanished, and the little old woman with them he knew not where. So Prince Dolor quitted his tower which he had entered so mournfully and ignominiously as a little helpless baby carried in the deaf-mute's arms quitted it as the great King of Nomansland.