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Against that riddle the non-comprehension of her sex beat itself, baffled. She might put it the other way round, try to imagine herself desiring, paying for, the temporary attentions of some dirty, common, vapid, and patchouli-scented man and still she got no nearer. For she never could desire it.... Well, anyhow, there the thing was. Stop the demand? Stop that desire of men for women?
He did not really understand this matter at all that was because he belonged to the other world, the world of successful and fit people. They had their own problems to solve, no doubt! This non-comprehension was made quite clear by the professor's next remark. "I'm sorry to have disappointed you," he said. "If a little money will help you " "No," said the other quickly.
"Whose name?" she inquired, roused by his voice from smiling retrospection. "That chuckle head the young man who continued to haunt you so persistently when you poured tea for Nina on Tuesday. Of course they all haunted you," he explained politely, as she shook her head in sign of non-comprehension; "but there was one who ah gulped at his cup." "Please you are rather dreadful, aren't you?" "Yes.
"Who are you?" he demanded in his own tongue. Her look of non-comprehension steadied him, at least outwardly, though it did not check the fierce, painful beating of his pulses. He repeated the question in pure though hesitating English. "I am an Englishwoman," she answered at once, "and have lost my way.
He knew which were the subjects she would expand on, and which would land her, puzzled and uninterested, in inward non-comprehension and verbal assent. She was a nice girl, a jolly girl, an efficient girl, and a very pretty girl. She liked Henry, whom she thought amusing, shabby, and queer. They began, of course, by talking of the fresh disappearances.
But an atmosphere of suspicion, of non-comprehension, had been created around the missing man, and it was not to be dispelled, even in Steingall's acute mind, by whittling away the mystery of the blocked door to a minor incident which might occur in any hotel any day.
In my country, in Spain, in France, also in Germany, men, even those calling themselves well bred, are often caddish enough to make coarse sexual jokes toward comparative strangers and to assume a freer tone when no women are present. Such behavior could make me furious and I always answered it with mocking non-comprehension.
One can see by the Gospels, the Acts, and the Epistles how from the earliest times the non-comprehension of the doctrine called forth the need for proofs through the miraculous and incomprehensible.
His sermon ended, Brenton bowed his head in a benediction which, in his heart, he sent most earnestly upon his wife. Perchance the selfsame hour that saw his self-vindication should also see the rending of the veil of non-comprehension which had fallen down between the two of them. The luncheon hour, however, brought with it disillusion. Over the luncheon, Kathryn spoke.
"James Marmaduke Trevor." "Otherwise called Doggie, miss," said Mo. She made a little graceful gesture of non-comprehension. "Non compree?" asked Mo. "No, monsieur." Phineas explained, in his rasping and consciously translated French: "It is a nickname of the regiment. Doggie." The flushed and embarrassed subject of the discussion saw her lips move silently to the word. "But his name is Trevor.
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