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He knows nothing. I am sure of it. He is a dull sort of person. I had my eye on him all the time. Besides, I threw in a few remarks just to set the thing right. 'That was when you spoke about our travels in the Tyrol? 'Yes. 'O Frank, how COULD you? And you said how lonely it was when we were the only visitors at the Swiss hotel. 'That was an inspiration. That finished him.
Why should you wish my story to be more complete than theirs is, or less romantic than theirs may be? There are more things in London, as well as in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in our philosophy. If you but knew the secret history of that dull gentleman opposite whom you sat at dinner yesterday! the real thoughts of that chattering girl whom you took down!
He was mud to the knees, his clothing was torn, he was mud to the elbows from having tripped last night and fallen in a quagmire, his face was white and drawn and grimy as the face of a London cabrunner, his hair was grayer and dull, but his eyes were bright and he was happy.
But now tell me; when you have set your Thames on fire, and covered yourself with laurels, and generally turned the world upside down, sha'n't you allow some humble and devoted beggarman to share your kingdom with you? You might find it a little dull alone in your glory, as you are such a sociable person." "Well, if I do, of course I shall let some nice man share it with me." "I see.
In her face there was no sign of a living soul. Her eyes were dull, her heart burned out, her hands gnarled with toil under the slavedom of a beast. Yet even Peter, quiet as a mouse where he lay, sensed the difference between them. He had seen the girl and this woman sobbing in each other's arms.
He had one early in the spring, just before he came to me. 'An attack like this one an attack of 'Delirium tremens. Not quite so bad as this last, from his own account; but then one can never quite trust a patient's account. And you say he is better now? 'Yes; he has been in his room all to-day, writing or reading. He seems dull and low-spirited, that is all. 'No delusions to-day?
The Bishop did not look up, or he would have seen dull despair displacing the Knight's anger.
I think that the king was so taken up with parting words to the queen that he had hardly noticed the gloom and heat, and certainly he had not noted the uneasiness of the horses, which was growing more and more. So he only turned for a moment to the thane, signing to the man to bring his horse. "Nay, but a dull start often forebodes a bright ending to a journey. We will go," he said, laughing.
D'Artagnan was not so dull as not to perceive that he was one too many; but he was not sufficiently broken into the fashions of the gay world to know how to extricate himself gallantly from a false position, like that of a man who begins to mingle with people he is scarcely acquainted with and in a conversation that does not concern him.
What did seem odd, and perhaps a little dull, was that people in other places should have to go to the same church week after week. There was only one day in the year on which both the peals of bells were heard, the Feast of SS. Philip and James, which is also May Day.
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