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The Sphinx has one hundred and fifty qualifications for impassiveness which you lack." "What are they?" the Dog asked. "One hundred and forty-nine tons of sand on her tail." "And ?" "A stone tail." A Prophet of Evil An Undertaker Who Was a Member of a Trust saw a Man Leaning on a Spade, and asked him why he was not at work.

The servant glanced at the formidable array of bottles. "And he calls this a quiet life!" thought the care-taker, losing his impassiveness and viewing the table with round-eyed wonder. "Nothing going on?" he said aloud. "Mynheer, the Patroon, complained of too much life here, with people taking farms all around.

And you will find, Rose, how necessary it is to be on our guard against it in our judgments and how it can take possession of some natures and slowly destroy them under a hateful appearance of wisdom! I would rather discover ugly and active defects in you than that beautiful impassiveness. Besides, as I have told you many a time, the excellence that seems to me ideal has its weaknesses.

Until three o'clock in the morning of this same day he had contended with himself again, and this long history of love, this story of passion, would only revive and excite his incurable wound. But behind his impassiveness nothing was seen, nothing betrayed his effort at self-control and his attempt to conquer the beating of his heart.

Ice an inch thick, any way, and Charley talked that much he's not said anything since, even when the near horse put his foot into a badger hole." Rude banter followed this, but Winston took no part in it. Hastening into the post office, he stood betraying his impatience by his very impassiveness while a sallow-faced woman tossed the letters out upon the counter.

I had seen an idea a hope flash in her eyes; but she steadied herself before speaking: "What was the urgent subject on which you wanted to see me, knowing that my Father was not available?" The pause showed her mastery of her thoughts. The instantaneous change in Mr. Corbeck was almost ludicrous. His start of surprise, coming close upon his iron-clad impassiveness, was like a pantomimic change.

The blind girl's face lit up as he told his story, which she followed eagerly. Christophe watched her and saw that she was on the point of speaking. She made a movement to come near him and hold his hand. He moved, too but already she had relapsed into her impassiveness, and when he had finished, she only replied with a few banal words.

If you were mine, nothing could make me give you up, but when it's only the hope of having you, then pride and self-respect have a chance to be heard." He was ready to move on. "There's something in that," said he, lapsed into his usual seeming of impassiveness. "But not much." "I never before knew you to fail to understand." "I understand perfectly. You care, but you don't care enough to suit me.

It had been like the rending of body and soul to tell him this. As she saw the condemned man's face quiver and flush at last out of its impassiveness, she thought hell itself could hold no more hideous torment. He extended his arms: "Now welcome death!" he exclaimed. And she turned and fled down the passage as though driven upon this last cry.

This caused so rapid and complete a diversion from the attack that d'Artagnan's adversary, while the latter turned round to face this shower of blows, sheathed his sword with the same precision, and instead of an actor, which he had nearly been, became a spectator of the fight a part in which he acquitted himself with his usual impassiveness, muttering, nevertheless, "A plague upon these Gascons!