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But the pain of my shoulder sent me back again with my teeth jammed hard together. "What has happened? Out with it!" I cried. But Pierre was inarticulate. He came to my pallet and mumbled something between tears about my shoulder. "and the master with no clothes but a dirty Indian's!" he finished. So I was the cause of this demonstration. I patted his hand. "But your escape, Pierre?
Pray do not be doubtful or anxious. We are your dutiful sons, sir, and our first " "Rubbish!" exclaimed the broken Iron King. "That will do! Go send Rose to me. Why the deuce did she leave? I I I " His voice dropped into an inarticulate murmur. Mr. Fabian bent over him, and saw that he had dozed off to sleep.
The floor-walker retired, leaving P. Sybarite a free agent but none the less haunted by a feeling that a suspicious eye was being kept on the small of his back. He stammered something quite inarticulate. The brune goddess shaped ironic lips: "Chauffeurs', I presoom?" A measure of self-possession akin to the deadly coolness of the cornered rat returned to the badgered little man.
Ah-Fang-Fu returned unmoved to his Patience and silence reclaimed the den, only broken by the inarticulate murmuring and the lapping of the tide. "A genuine customer!" whispered Max. "Ah!" came again, more faintly "he ... has ... bitten ... me." "Blimey!" said Bill in a drowsy voice "'eave the chair at 'im, Pidgin." Stuart was about to speak when Gaston Max furtively grasped his arm.
Undoubtedly to the Elwells and Dudleys, as to most of their definite, practical, orderly and successful New England neighbors, my uncles were merely a good-natured, easy-going lot of "fiddlers," but to me as I grew old enough to understand them, they became a group of potential poets, bards and dreamers, inarticulate and moody. They fell easily into somber silence.
A monstrous plant on the rocks, queer blocks everywhere, glacial mud, figures whose simian shapes, heavy jaws, beetling eyebrows, retreating foreheads and flat skulls, recalled the ancestral heads of the first quaternary periods, when inarticulate man still devoured fruits and seeds, and was still contemporaneous with the mammoth, the rhinoceros and the big bear.
Isabel rang her up during the morning a trunk call with the brave intention of expressing firm and unshakable optimism but the effort was pathetically tremulous and finally petered out with inarticulate sobs and chokings. "Oh, dear, dear! That will never do," said Mrs. Barraclough, mastering a powerful desire to kiss the microphone into which she spoke.
It is the subtle charm of youth that evaporates, the charm that makes a young and eager boy on the threshold of manhood so interesting, so delightful, even though he may be inarticulate and immature and self-absorbed.
For this reason the dwellers in the towns looked down upon him as one belonging to an inferior race. In all lands, in all ages, the countryman has been considered a proper butt by the most loutish townsman. The starving proletarian of the city pavement scoffed at the farmer as a boor. Voiceless, there was none to speak for him, and his rude, inarticulate complaints were met with jeers.
Her smile was infinitely more heart-breaking than her tears. Ralph uttered a kind of low inarticulate roar at the sight being his impotent protest against his love's pain. Yet such moments are the ineffaceable treasures of life, had he but known it. Many a man's deeds follow his vows simply because his lips have tasted the salt water of love's ocean upon the face of the beloved.
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