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Them dumb animals can't go on for ever, bumpety, bumpety, as your honour and I do. Whaugh!" "It is very true, Bunting, and I have had some thoughts of sending you home again with the horses, and travelling post." "Eh!" grunted the Corporal, opening his eyes; "hopes your honour ben't serious." "Why if you continue to look so serious, I must be serious too; you understand, Bunting?"
A man born dumb, notwithstanding his great cerebral mass and his inheritance of strong intellectual instincts, would be capable of few higher intellectual manifestations than an Orang or a Chimpanzee, if he were confined to the society of dumb associates. And yet there might not be the slightest discernible difference between his brain and that of a highly intelligent and cultivated person.
The young count soon fell asleep again, but Ulrich buried his head still deeper among the pillows; it seemed as if he saw the mild, thoughtful face of the man, from whom he had received so much affection, gazing reproachfully at him; then the dumb wife appeared before his mind, and he fancied her soft hand was lovingly stroking his cheeks as usual.
Well, well, well how did you ever have the nerve to approach him, of all others?" "Why my friend, we never think of accomplishing anything without his help. He is our mainstay. But how do those letters strike you?" "They strike me dumb! What a stone-blind idiot I have been!"
"Come, my child, compose yourself. We are alone and you will tell me what happened. Among women we understand each other. Come, you were frightened, eh?" Jeanne was one petrified, immovable, and dumb, she fixed her eyes on a flower which was hanging from a vase. This red flower fascinated her. She could not take her eyes off it.
It is an amazing thing that he should have done so a freak, we may call it, of the wind of genius, which bloweth where it listeth and singles out one in ten thousand to find a fitting speech for the dumb thought and feeling of the rest. But we need not base the claim of Carmichael to the attention of the public merely on considerations of this sort. His work speaks for itself.
But there are moments when I am willing that this tongue, so praised for its eloquence, should be dumb forever that this beauty, which men worship, should be hidden in the deepest recesses of barbarian forests so that I might again be as I was, when the sky was clothed in perpetual glory, and the earth wore not so sad a smile as now.
"He read," says Suetonius, "at once with sweetness and with a wonderful fascination;" and Seneca had a story of the poet Julius Montanus saying that he himself would attempt to steal something from Virgil if he could first borrow his voice, his elocution, and his dramatic power in reading; for the very same lines, said he, which when the author himself read them sounded well, without him were empty and dumb.
Nevertheless it appears there were a few observant eyes even of contemporaries, who discerned in him a surprising talent for "National Economics" at least. That he understood National Economics has now become very certain. His grim semi-articulate Papers and Rescripts, on these subjects, are still almost worth reading, by a lover of genuine human talent in the dumb form.
"I don't believe he pretended to be a deaf mute in order to get a place on board, for that would ordinarily be enough to prevent him from getting it. I should put it that he had obtained his place in spite of being deaf and dumb. But the mystery exists just the same." The captain went on deck, and the first lieutenant to the ward room.
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