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Gervaise mechanically laid down the two sous, and then, limping painfully under the weight of the wet linen which was slung over her shoulder and dripped as she moved, with her injured arm and bleeding cheek, she went away, dragging after her with her naked arm the still-sobbing and tear-stained Etienne and Claude.
There was no hope, and consequently no power of effort, left in her. When Jerome brought some medicine in a spoon, she assisted him to feed the child with it, but mechanically, and as if she had no interest.
And even as my attention was thus irresistibly dragged from my book, my mind clung with a feeble desperation to its task, and I murmured under my breath like a child repeating a mechanically learned lesson: "Knowledge is not the divergence of the ray but the ray itself...." For several seconds the eyes of the infant held mine.
The minstrel continued: "While the child was talking to me I mechanically took the flower-chains from her hands, and not thinking what I was about, gathered them up into a ball. Suddenly she saw what I had done, and instead of scolding me for spoiling her pretty chains, which I richly deserved, was delighted to find I had twisted them into a new plaything.
I felt it directly I got up." "Quite a change in the weather, I'm sure," he said mechanically; "it feels like a frost coming on." "You dear old goose!" said Matilda, with an unusual effusiveness; "you shan't tease me like this! Do you think I've no eyes and no feelings? Any girl, I don't care how proud or offended, would come round on such proof of devotedness as I've had this evening.
She was led before his grace, and the doctor putting a finger carelessly on the ducal heart, which for convenience sake was reached by a little trapdoor in his diamond shirt, had begun to say mechanically, "Cold, qui ," when he stopped abruptly. "What's this?" he cried, and first he shook the heart like a watch, and then put his ear to it.
Later on, the first time that he caught hold, mechanically, of the ropes to the towers, and hung suspended from them, and set the bell to clanging, it produced upon his adopted father, Claude, the effect of a child whose tongue is unloosed and who begins to speak.
Mechanically her head moved in assent, her eyes, dilated with fear, were like the dark, fascinated eyes of some helpless bird. "You never saw this young man?" the bey pursued. "And yet you were ready to run off with him a pretty character you give yourself, my snowdrop! and you liked his eyes and hastened to obey?" Aimée was silent. From his ignominy upon the floor Ryder hastened to interpose.
"Girl a girl, dear Rickie; a little daughter. She she is in many ways a healthy child. She will live oh yes." A flash of horror passed over his face. He hurried into the preparation room, lifted the lid of his desk, glanced mechanically at the boys, and came out again. Mrs. Lewin appeared through the door that led into their own part of the house.
For a space she lingered there, hardly knowing what she did; then she remembered that she had not bidden Bernard good-night, and mechanically her steps turned in his direction. He was generally smoking and working on the verandah at that hour. She made her way to the dining-room as being the nearest approach.
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