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Unfortunately, he did not take note of all this, or give the poor pawns thus parading for his purpose more than a cursory glance. When he did think, which was when he was halfway up the staircase, it was to look back upon a changed scene. For with his going, interest had flagged and the tableau lost its pointedness.
Lorraine leant back against her cushions, with her slow, easy grace, asking the question with a lightness that robbed it of all pointedness or snobbery.
Nothing that he did escaped her, and the quick flash of his eyes in her direction unintentionally gave the following words the force and pointedness of an open rebuke; "I wish that outward beauty Were the mirror of the heart, That purity and duty Supplanted wily art."
Assingham too as if he grasped the facts, without exception, for which angularity stood. It figured for him, clearly, as a final idea, a conception of the last vividness. He might have been signifying by it the sharp corners and hard edges, all the stony pointedness, the grand right geometry of his spreading Palladian church.
Susan Shepherd, at this, for reasons not clear even to herself, was moved a little to caution. So she remained general. "He's charming." She had met Mrs. Lowder's eyes with that extreme pointedness in her own to which people resort when they are not quite candid a circumstance that had its effect. "Yes; he's charming."
Miss Dassonville, however, afforded him no help beyond the negative one of not talking too much and taking perhaps a shade less interest in Venice. They had two quiet days together in which it was evident, whatever Peter settled with himself as to his relation to the girl, it had taken on for Mrs. Merrithew the pointedness known in Bloombury as "attentions."
Murderers' hands are often noticeable for their knotted knuckles and club-shaped finger-tips; suicides for the slenderness of the thumbs and strong inclination of the index to the second finger; thieves for the pointedness of the finger-tips, and the length and suppleness of the fingers.
"The firing squad will do a better work in a few minutes," replied the lieutenant, with a grim pointedness that took Barney's breath away. They marched Barney before the staff where he urged his American nationality, pointing to his credentials and passes in support of his contention. The general before whom he had been brought shrugged his shoulders.
"You you you think my cousin Maurice loves Bertha?" she asked, hardly aware of the pointedness of her own question. "I do not exactly say that; but how will it be possible for him to help loving her? Good gracious, Mademoiselle Madeleine! what have I said to affect you? How pale you have become!"
"There is, then, the second point cleared up, or nearly so," said Eugenie, without the least confusion, and with that masculine pointedness which distinguished her gesture and her language; "and you appear satisfied with the explanation. Now, let us return to the first. You ask me why I have requested this interview; I will tell you in two words, sir; I will not marry count Andrea Cavalcanti."
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