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She was not there. The silken skirt that I had seen, and there being but one woman in all the world for me had taken for hers, belonged to Lady Wyatt, who, pale and terrified, was sitting with clasped hands, mutely following with her eyes her husband as he walked to and fro. West had come in from the street and was making some report.
I saw the little twisted body there. The woman had been keeping it warm with her own body. It must have been in her arms when we came in. The tumbled coverings, the crushed pillows spoke mutely of a ferocious intensity of grief. Hazen looked down at the little body. He made no move to touch it, but I heard him whisper to himself: "Fine boy." After a while he looked at the woman.
Meantime the door had opened wide, but neither noticed it until a man's deep voice loudly and wrathfully exclaimed: "Back, you scoundrel! Come here, Ruth. This is the way the assassin greets his family; begone, begone! you disgrace of my house!" Adam had uttered the words, and now drew the hammer from the belt of his leather apron. Ulrich gazed mutely into his face.
Strange that men will be contented with such pleasures, or if not contented, at least that they will be so eager in seeking them. Not one word did Harry, he so fluent of conversation ordinarily, change with his charmer on that day. Mutely he beheld her return to her carriage, and drive away among rather ironical salutes from the young men in the Park.
I suppose you are already aware that your father has made you his executor and, after a few minor legacies, the residuary legatee of his entire estate?" Payson shook his head mutely. He felt it more becoming to pretend to be ignorant of these things under the circumstances. "Yes," continued Tutt cheerfully, taking up the envelope, "Mr.
He tiptoed onward and upward. One turn more, then half a turn, and a door confronted him. He halted before it, listened; he could hear no sound. Putting his eye to the keyhole, he saw nothing but a stretch of white sunlit wall. Emboldened, he turned the handle and stepped across the threshold. There he halted, petrified by what he saw, mutely gaping.
He stooped until his gaze was on a level with hers. She did not touch him. All her forces were bent on self-control. "I have been asking your mother," said Mr. Evringham, "to stay here a while and take a vacation. Hasn't she told you?" Jewel shook her head mutely. "I think she will do it if you add your persuasion," continued the broker quietly.
But now, at last, the fevered sufferer was home, still only semi-conscious, being borne within the walls of the major's quarters, and she who had saved him, slaved for him, dared for him, could only mutely gaze after his prostrate and wasted form as it disappeared within the darkened hallway in the arms of his men.
She imparted this impersonality to her reception of Kendricks, whom Fulkerson met in the outer hall with his party, and whom he presented in whisper to them all. Kendricks smiled under his breath, as it were, and was then mutely and seriously polite to the Leightons. Alma brought a little bunch of flowers, which were lost in those which Dryfoos had ordered to be unsparingly provided.
There was a note of acquiescence and regret in her voice, of calm reason above all; and this sense reached him, induced him to listen, as he generally listened, for anything she might find that would explain the situation. His fingers went from habit, as a man might play with his watch-chain, to the symbol of his faith; her eyes followed them, and rested mutely on the cross.
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