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But, as the red silk mask was doffed, another took its place the mask of imperturbability that grave, inscrutable look with which he always masked his real emotions. "Honor to the Master Tarrano!" Tarrano raised his hand; his quiet, calm voice carried throughout the silent room. "There is no Master here tonight. No Master only the Mistress of Love. Let us honor her. Let her rule us all tonight."
"Willie, who is Miss Pratt?" asked Mrs. Baxter, mildly. "I don't think I've ever heard of " Jane had returned to an admirable imperturbability, but she chose this moment to interrupt her mother, and her own eating, with remarks delivered in a tone void of emphasis or expression. "Willie's mashed on her," she said, casually. "And she wears false side-curls. One almost came off."
"To call?" stammered the Butler. "Yes," conceded Flame. "I I don't happen to have an engraved card with me." Before the continued imperturbability of the old Butler all subterfuge seemed suddenly quite useless. "I never have had an engraved card," she confided quite abruptly.
Cai glanced at the back of William Skin, who had started to hum or rather to croon a tuneless song while knotting a rope to the second ladder. No: it was impossible to say what he wished to say in the presence of William Skin, confound him! Skin's deafness, Skin's imperturbability, might have limits. . . . "You wish me to advise you?" he controlled himself to ask. "No, I don't.
I came across a dairymaid and farm hand discussing it stolidly with very downcast faces. Even Hopgood, a hard-bitten fellow with immense shoulders, forgot his imperturbability so far as to harness his horse, and depart on what he assured me was "just a wild-guse chaace."
And Lionel Gordon, his habitual imperturbability altogether broken up by excitement, stamped up and down stammering: "Ge-ge-hanna, gehanna, what possesses the woman? I'd tour creation with her. She must be made to sign a three years' contract. If she can act like this there's nothing less than a cool half-million sterling in her."
The Major, unaccustomed as he was to these vicissitudes of Kamchatkan travel, held out like a Spartan; but I noticed that for the last ten miles he rode upon a pillow, and shouted at short intervals to Dodd, who, with stoical imperturbability, was riding quietly in advance: "Dodd! oh, Dodd! haven't we got most to that con-found-ed Malqua yet?"
The dice-players the pale one and the starving one sat gazing at each other, with a hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars piled up between them. The winner made no move to take in the money; he merely sat and stared at Kimberlin, wholly unmoved by the conversation in the adjoining room. His imperturbability was amazing, his absolute stillness terrifying. Kimberlin began to shake with an ague.
She hummed a waltz-song this time, and her eyes were dancing as if she were meditating some further assault on the Doctor's imperturbability. He came back and stood beside her, and was just about to make a tentative remark when Mother Mayberry hurried around the side of the house.
The police at their lonely outposts had come to regard his comings and goings as dependable as day and night. They blessed him for his punctuality, and not one of them missed him when he was gone. A strange man was Breault. With his back against a tree, where he had propped himself after the first shock of the bullet in his lung, he took a last look at life with a passionless imperturbability.
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