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Dawn with its passionless blank face, steals shivering to the church beneath which lies the dust of little Paul and his mother, and looks in at the windows. It is cold and dark. Night crouches yet, upon the pavement, and broods, sombre and heavy, in nooks and corners of the building.
Sylvia took her hands away from her face; it was gray as the face of death; her awful eyes were passionless in her despair. 'Where have yo' been? she asked, in slow, hoarse tones, as if her voice were half strangled within her. 'Been! said he, a red light coming into his eyes, as he bent his looks upon her; now, indeed, a true and not an assumed suspicion entering his mind.
In reality she was neither passive nor passionless, for her body quivered and Phillips knew that his touch had set her afire; but rather she seemed to be exhausted and at the same time enthralled as by some dream from which she was loath to rouse herself.
William of Orange was a younger man than when England knew him, and he came as king to reign over what was ever to him a foreign people, as he was to them an unattractive monarch. He was a man of slight and frail body; of calm and passionless nature, capable as few men have been of silence and reserve.
"The Beam of the Morning shall become the wife of the Young Pine," was the courteous answer; but stern revenge lay deep hidden beneath the unmoved brow and passionless lip. The fatal day arrived; the Bald Eagle, with unflinching hand and eye that dropped no human tear of sorrow for the son of his love, plunged the weapon into his heart with Spartan-like firmness.
"Those in favour signify the same in the usual way. Contrary? Carried." The secretary noted the dissentients, six in number, and that Mr. Westgate did not vote. A quarter of an hour later he stood in the body of the emptying room supplying names to one of the gentlemen of the Press. The passionless fellow said: "Haythorp, with an 'a'; oh! an 'e'; he seems an old man. Thank you.
Suddenly he stopped, transfixed by a later paragraph. For an instant he failed to grasp its full significance. Then he read it again, the words imprinting themselves on his senses with a slow deliberation that seemed to him as passionless as Scranton's utterances on that fateful night. "The loss of life, it is now feared, is much greater than at first imagined.
I hesitated, I was wondering why he had hit on such a subject; if he really had a reason, or if he was merely asking questions as a cover for something else, you see, I knew my Paul. 'That is not so sure. He looked at me with that passionless, yet searching glance of his. 'You think that she still is worshipped?
"How am I queer?" asked Edgar. "Why, you are queer; you are different from all the others. Perhaps it is because you are not strong." "No, I know I am not," Edgar said; "the doctor at my grandmother's used to say I should not live." Arthur looked very earnestly at Edgar's pale, passionless face. "Did he really? Are you sorry?"
A certain sternness came over the olive-groves, and they might well have served as a reproach to the facile Andaluz; for their cold passionless green seemed to offer a warning to his folly. At night my host left me to sleep in the village, and I lay in bed alone in the little house among the tombs; it was very silent.
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