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The sound of his own voice, moaning in his ears, had a magical effect upon him. He lifted his head, gazed about him, and then flushed deeply. His nerveless cowardice had all at once become unbelievable to himself. With a shamed frown he straightened himself, and stood thus for a long minute, engrossed in the definite task of chasing these phantoms from his mind.
'I . . . I want to ask you if I can introduce you to my mother? The knitting fell from Marion's nerveless fingers. She can show you the uneven row on the jumper where she dropped fifteen stitches at that moment. 'I shall be most happy to meet your mother, she murmured. 'This is really good of you, he said eagerly. 'You see, you're the very one she would take to in an instant.
"In the drawer," she repeated. She spoke in the mechanical voice of one desperately intent upon holding the mind to some vital project. Her nerveless hands fumbled at the side of the desk. He crossed quickly, caught up the box which she had just relinquished, and dropped it into his pocket. "Oh!" she moaned, and stared at him with stricken and accusing eyes. "Then it was the poison!" "Yes."
Her visitors, when they heard him coming, looked for the appearance of some old, old man, but he dragged his nerveless limbs into the parlor and there was Mr. Toothaker! The disease increasing, he never went into the sunshine save with a staff in his right hand and his left on his wife's shoulder, bearing heavily downward like a dead man's hand.
From their crowded graves come voices of thrilling and persistent pathos, whispering, "Finish the work that has fallen from our nerveless hands. Let no weight of tyranny, nor taint of oppression, nor stain of wrong, cumber the soil nor darken the land we died to save."
The clatter of tools had ceased. The men ate and drank in silence. No sound came from the Northern troops in the wood. A heavy, ominous silence brooded over the little valley which had seen so much battle and passion. Harry felt relaxed and for the moment nerveless. His eyes wandered to the new earth, beneath which the dead lay, and he shivered.
Years afterwards, it may be, his memory is still haunted by some vindictive wretch whose cheeks were pale and hunger-pinched, whose rags fluttered in the east-wind, whose right arm was paralyzed and his left leg shrivelled into a mere nerveless stick, but whom he passed by remorselessly because an Englishman chose to say that the fellow's misery looked too perfect, was too artistically got up, to be genuine.
The experiment, so far as its original projectors were concerned, proved, long ago, a failure; first lapsing into Fourierism, and dying, as it well deserved, for this infidelity to its own higher spirit. Where once we toiled with our whole hopeful hearts, the town paupers, aged, nerveless, and disconsolate, creep sluggishly afield.
"You are not insinuating that they have been fighting?" she asked, with a tremble in her voice which she could not control. But Valonne reassured her. "I am insinuating nothing," he said, with a calm smile. "Let us have one more turn before this charming valse stops." And, limp and nerveless, Tamara allowed herself to be whirled around the room; nor could she get anything further out of Valonne.
"It would matter a great deal" she said, softly "to the world!" "The world!" he echoed "What need I care for it? Nothing seems of value to me where you are not I am nerveless, senseless, hopeless without you. My inspiration such as it is comes from you " She moved restlessly her face was turned slightly away so that I could not see it.
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