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It seemed a small matter to him that the placards of the local evening papers should proclaim "Lloyd George's Reconciliation Meeting at Wombash Broken up by Suffragettes." For a year now he had observed a strict rule against buying the products of the local press, and he saw no reason for varying this protective regulation. His mind was full of angry helplessness.
A moment more, and she was in the room. He was lying flat in the bed, his dark eyes staring upwards out of deep hollows that had become cruelly distinct. There was dumb endurance in every line of him. His mouth was hard set, the chin firm as granite. And even then in his utter helplessness there was about him a greatness, a mute, unconscious majesty, that caught her by the throat.
Without that, she must either have gone actually insane, or, in a frenzy of helplessness, done some rash thing which would have marred her whole life beyond repair. After she found herself growing more accustomed to her new life and, after all, the growing accustomed to it was the hardest part she realized that she was only following the universal law of life in paying for her own rash act.
Standing there with the impersonal calm of utter helplessness, I watched the Britisher break the seal and unfold the sheets. They were thin and they were many and they were covered with closely jotted hieroglyphics, row upon row. But the sphinx-like quality of the contents afforded me no gleam of hope.
You can't, of course, think of going on. I will see that she is as comfortable here as she would be with me; everything shall be done." Lee answered that he was certain of that. A feeling of helplessness fastened on him, together with the incongruous speculation about the propriety of a cable to William Grove.
And so Edith in her helplessness and fear of work was tempted to enter on that forlorn experiment which so many energetic women of decided character have made that of marrying a man who can't stand alone, or do anything but dawdle, in the hope that they may be able to infuse in him some of their own moral and intellectual backbone.
I " then stopped, at the curve his lips were taking and at consciousness of the pitiableness of her device. "Morton," she said, her hands opening into her lap into pads of great pink helplessness, "you wouldn't tell her on me! You're not that low!" "Wouldn't tell what?" He was rattling her, and so she fought him with her gaze, trying to fasten and fathom under the flicker of his lids.
Not daring to leave the room again until summarily dismissed by the ruling power, I stood guiltily by the doorway with a look of sullen helplessness on my face, toying half indifferently with the ends of a pink ribbon that was fastened artistically to my frock.
The task would occupy and divert him, and be no flagrant sin. But there had been no events in his life until the one great event; so his autobiography resolved itself into a single line on the first page Sept. 13, 1847. Had my leg shot off. What else was there to record, except a transient gleam of sunshine immediately after his return home, and his present helplessness and isolation?
He had left Natalie alone on the cliff, and then blindly permitted this chit to lead him straight into Hobart's set trap. Angered beyond control at the memory, West swore, straining fiercely in the vain endeavour to release his arms. Then, realizing his utter helplessness, he sank back on the floor, and lay still. What was that? He listened, for an instant doubtful if he had really heard anything.