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Dolan took a furtive peep at Mary, who, dry-eyed and white, was staring straight ahead. She was trembling and very pale, but if Katy Dolan knew anything she knew that her sister's face was unforgiving and she did not in the least blame her. Dannie reached home as soon as the horse could take them, and under the doctor's directions all of them began work.
Yes, though my hair is readjusted, though I spent more than a quarter of an hour in bathing my eyes, and restoring some semblance of white to their lids, though I had resolved and without much difficulty, too, hitherto to be dry-eyed for the rest of the evening. What does it matter what color my eyelids are? what size my nose is? or how beblubbered my cheeks?
However, it was a sunny corner, sheltered from the sea-wind, and the docks and nettles grew luxuriantly there. Such dry-eyed, quiet grief amongst the emotional Welsh was new to the doctor, and he knew that if tears did not come to her relief her health would suffer, so he gently tried to make her talk of her little one. "I saw you had tried a hot bath, or I would have recommended it," he said.
Pip had his hands in his pockets and stood on the hearthrug, looking gloomily at a certain plate, and refusing breakfast altogether; the General was crashing his own mug and plate joyously together; and Bunty was eating bread and butter in stolid silence. Judy, white-faced and dry-eyed, was sitting at the table, and Nell and Baby were clinging to either arm.
They had set the trap with care; and the cruel jaws had sprung. She sat dry-eyed, incoherent prayers at her trembling lips. Mostly she did not touch the man, only sat at his bedside in the crude chair Ben had fashioned for her while the minutes rolled into hours and the hours sped the night away, in tireless vigil, watching with lightless eyes. Once she bent and touched her lips to his.
"It said it said " Foyle rubbed his chin. "It said that we had detained a man in Sussex," he said encouragingly. She pulled herself together a little, but her whole form was trembling. "It was Mr. Grell?" she asked eagerly. He inclined his head in assent. "Yes, it was Mr. Grell." Her face dropped to her hands and her frame shook. But when she raised her head she was dry-eyed.
Won't you tell me what it is? You look worried." She returned his anxious gaze, dry-eyed but speechless. "Has that fellow, Prince Maiyo, done or said anything " She interrupted him. "No!" she cried. "No! don't mention his name, please! I don't want to hear his name again just now." "For my part," Somerfield said bitterly, "I never want to hear it again as long as I live!"
I contented myself with the use of my eyes, and playing with the baby, leaving the two widows to indulge in a few sighs and tears together. My own tears do not come very readily, and it makes me feel cold hearted to sit dry-eyed while other eyes are wet. As I sat quietly absorbing the spirit of the place, my eyes rested on a shelf containing the few cheap dishes that served their daily food.
You think it is embracing, clipping, playing with a chin: you fool, it is scorching your heart black, it is welling blood by drops, it is fasting in sight of food, death where sweet life offers, shame held more honourable than honour. Oh, Saint Mary, star of women, what do men know of love? Dry-eyed and pinched, she looked about her as if to find an answer in the sullen moors.
So finally Liz took it back to the other room, and left it there, still sleeping. The fine edge of the Nurse's joy was dulled. It is a characteristic of great happiness to wish all to be well with the world; and here before her was dry-eyed despair. It was Liz who finally decided her.
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