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"Yes!" he said dully, like an actor in the fourth act of a drama; and, letting his hands drop impotently, began to shake his chin, which had fallen upon his breast. "I expected everything, only not this. You I excuse, Liuba you are a cave being; but you, Simanovsky ... I esteemed you ... however, I still esteem you a decent man.
If he lived for a century Allan knew that he would never forget that first walk to Promoters the big fisherman at his side, the ocean roaring in his ears, the lights from the cottage windows dully gleaming through the black darkness never forget that moment in which Maggie Promoter turned from the fire with the "cruisie" in her hand, the very incarnation of womanhood, crowned with perfect health and splendid beauty.
Duty is better than a worthless woman, my Billikins, and I was never fit to be anything more than a toy to you a toy to play with and toss aside. And so good-bye, good-bye!" The scrawl ended with a little cross at the bottom of the page. He looked up from it with eyes gone blind with pain and a stunned and awful sense of loss. "When did the mem-sahib go?" he questioned, dully.
The French windows, divided by columns of different coloured marble, terminated in perfect arches, studded with great lumps of uncut amethyst, turquoise matrix, and blocks of quartz in which dully gleamed the yellow of gold, reminding Jill somewhat of the outer decorations of a shop she had once seen in the Nevski Prospekt, the owner of which, dealing in objets d'arts, and precious bibelots of jade and sich, had quite successfully thought out the novel and expensive advertising method of plastering the front of his shop with chunks of the precious metal with which the bibelots were made.
"In two days, my child, if you are strong enough. In two days we will set sail." "In two days," Karen repeated. And, dully, she repeated again; "I come with you in two days." Madame von Marwitz now noticed that tears ran from under the hand. These tears of Karen's alarmed her. She had not wept at all before to-day. "My child is worn and tired. She would rest. Is it not so?
The whole existence of this man had been sacrificed for him, and its only reward was a thrust of a lance in a midnight fray a grave in an alien soil. His grief fell dully on ears half deafened already to the sounds of the living world.
They had settled a certain signal to meet for lunch, and when it finally summoned them the searchers struggled out of the bush one by one. Jim's heart smote him as he saw Norah's white face, and he begged her to cease; to stay resting during the hot afternoon, even if she would not go home. Norah shook her head dully.
Miss Briskett beheld her approach from her seat in the corner of the drawing-room, and two spots of colour shone dully on her thin cheek bones. The hands which held her knitting trembled with indignation, and her eyes welcomed the culprit with a steely flash. "Cornelia, are you aware that you are forbidden to trespass on the grass of this park?" "Yes, ma'am."
His French was entirely fluent, but the accent was American. Sylvia looked up at him surprised. He returned her gaze dully, and without another look at the papers, scuffled off through the rain, across the street towards the Pantheon. His boots were lamentable. Sylvia had an instantly vanishing memory of a pool of quiet sunshine, of a ripely beautiful woman and a radiant young man.
"It isn't that, Andor," she murmured. "It isn't that?" he repeated dully, and once more the frown of awful puzzlement appeared between his dark, inquiring eyes. "Then what is it? No, no, Elsa!" he added quickly, seeing that she threw a quick look of pathetic anxiety upon him, "don't be afraid, my dove. I am not going to make a fool of myself again. You .
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