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He felt a vague anxiety at sight of the envelope with the black seal, which the protectress of Gabriel had delivered to the notary, and was still held mechanically in his hands.
He picked up a small book and mechanically turned the leaves. The older man eyed him keenly. "Don't mind me, Zarato." He said it kindly, and laid a hand on the young man's shoulder. "I have no right to say anything against her except that she's a somewhat fickle woman," he added dryly. The young man's eyes were fixed on the page before him.
There were a name and a phrase that recurred to him mechanically from time to time. The name was Caffie, and the phrase was, "Nothing easier." Why should this hypothesis to strangle Caffie, of which he had lightly spoken, and to which he had attached no importance at the moment when he uttered it, return to him in this way as a sort of obsession? Was it not strange?
A strange and childlike quality came into her face, a pathos unlike anything I had seen there before. She took my hand mechanically. "Of course," said she, as though she spoke to herself, "it can not be. But, dear God! would it not be enough?" I did not understand her speech. I stood and watched her carriage as it whirled away.
Like other bodies, its composition includes numbers who act mechanically, as they are pressed this way or that way by those who judge for them; and divers of the wicked, fitted for evil practices, when the adoption of them is thought necessary to particular purposes, and a part of whose creed it is, that in political matters the public good is above every other consideration, and that all rules of morality when in competition with it, may be safely dispensed with.
The heavy train settled down to an easy, unbroken stroke, swinging like a greyhound over the level northwards. All the time Siegmund was mechanically thinking the well-known movement from the Valkyrie Ride, his whole self beating to the rhythm. It seemed to him there was a certain grandeur in this flight, but it hurt him with its heavy insistence of catastrophe.
He climbed wearily up the stairs. It was time for him to lay himself in his coffin. The car was at the door the hearse. The whole party had assembled to see him go. Good-bye, good-bye. Mechanically he tapped the barometer that hung in the porch; the needle stirred perceptibly to the left. A sudden smile lighted up his lugubrious face.
He stared at me in silence, his gray eyes expanding like those of an eagle, then calmly, mechanically he got down and began to unhitch the team. He performed each habitual act with most minute care, till I, impatient of his silence, his seeming indifference, repeated, "Don't you understand? Mother has had a stroke! She is absolutely helpless." Then he asked, "Where is your friend Dr. Cross?"
His thoughts were on the window and the fire-escape, and he hardly heard her monotonous sentences, though he obeyed mechanically her instructions to cut and shuffle. "You are about to engage in a new business," she was saying. "You will be successful, but there will be some trouble about a dark man. Look out for him. He talks fair, but he means mischief. There is a woman, too.
Mechanically he buckled it tighter. "You're Jenny Long, ain't you?" he asked. "I beg pardon for sneakin' in like this, but they're after me, some ranchers and a constable one o' the Riders of the Plains. I've been tryin' to make this house all day. You're Jenny Long, ain't you?" She had plenty of courage, and, after the first instant of shock, she had herself in hand.
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