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With which declaration of his views, Kergenven lapsed into immutable silence and slumberous apathy, from whose shelter nothing could tempt him afresh; and the Colonel, with all the rest, lounged into the anteroom, where the tables were set, and began "plunging" in earnest at sums that might sound fabulous, were they written here.
I realized this as I allowed myself a few moments' rest, and threw myself upon the sofa. The old outlook, the old ideas had been torn up by the root. The things which had seemed to be of life itself only a few hours ago seemed now to have lapsed into the insignificance of trifles. I thought of myself and my old life with the tolerance of one who watches a child at play.
It's a wonder she didn't put ye in the stove instead o' the wood!" As this joke was not new to the listeners, no notice was taken of it, and the three lapsed into silence. Outside the steady boom of the surf beating on the rocks came with monotonous regularity, and inside the clock ticked.
She lapsed into complete unconsciousness of manner as Tommy swooped on his desk, included hat and book in one grab, and darted towards the door through which Hansen had just disappeared. Here he paused, tilting, and his smile twinkled at them with understanding. "Good-night, Miss Neal. Hope you have a good time, Vic."
"I'm not doin' nothin'," he said aggrievedly, after a minute's pause. Bunty always lapsed into evil grammar when agitated. "Nothing at all. I'm goin' to a picnic." "Ah, indeed!" said the Captain. "You looked as if you were meditating on some fresh mischief, or sorrowing over some old which was it?" Bunty turned a little pale, but remarked again he "wasn't doin' nothin'."
She had been enjoined never to open the window; but she was full of rebellious thoughts; she surely might gaze out of the window, if she were not to be taken for a walk. So she opened it, and leaned out like a grown-up person in imitation of her mother when she ensconced herself there and lapsed into silence. The air was mild, and moist in its mildness, which seemed to her delightful.
I looked round for any other visible evidence of his fate, looked round as one does when one packs one's portmanteau in an hotel bedroom. When I got my bearings, and carefully returned towards the ship. I had the mood of grave concentration of a boy who has lapsed into poaching.
With real ardour Lady Kew sought to defend her grandson from some of the attacks here made against him; and showed Ethel that the person who could use such means of calumniating him, would not scruple to resort to falsehood in order to effect her purpose. "Her purpose!" cries Ethel. "How do you know it is a woman?" Lady Kew lapsed into generalities.
Angrily she exclaimed: "Won't you ever get it into your head that I'm running this flat on eighteen dollars a week thirteen from you and five from Virginia? Lunch money! You're lucky even to get lunch!" He made no reply, but lapsed into a sulky silence. Presently, with a wry face, he growled: "I'm getting tired of nothing but dry sandwiches and dill pickles."
Sasha knit her brows, her animation gone from her. After a moment's silence, she said in a serious voice, but smiling in joyous confusion: "HE'S convinced. If everything is really as he says, we ought to try. It's our duty." She blushed, dropped into a chair, and lapsed into silence. "My dear, dear girl!" the mother thought, smiling.
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