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But Jorgensen turned his broad back upon them and pored silently over his own affairs. He was not to be shaken out of his self-sufficiency. The mother received them out in the kitchen, when she heard their noisy approach. "You must move quietly Father is calculating and calculating, poor fellow! He can get no peace in his head since the harbor plans have been seriously adopted.
Now I'm afraid!" But she could not wake the protector. She was alone. "God, then!" And in one last flash of distracted irony: "If I called God in Arabic?" She had an idea that the silently brooding forest was smiling in the darkness.
"As quick as you can, then, for some one may come along." Adele was helped over the side, and seated in the stern of a birch-bark canoe. The three men unhooked the ladder, and swung themselves down by a rope, while two Indians, who held the paddles, pushed silently off from the ship's side, and shot swiftly up the stream.
In the busy streets, in distracting business, amidst household cares and duties, at all times and in all places, she gave vent to her irrepressible transports in the sweet song of ceaseless praise, silently entoned within her own heart, and audible only to her heavenly Spouse and His angels.
And so they stood for a moment, silently. Ten minutes later there came the sound of blithe whistling from Jock's room. Jock always whistled when he went to bed and when he rose. Even these years of living in a New York apartment had not broken him of the habit.
It's been a hard day for him, too I think you ought to go to him. I'll sit here until you come back." Sylvia nodded, and stole silently out of the room. Austin was waiting for her at the foot of the stairs, his smile of welcome changing to an expression of stern solicitude as he looked at her. "Have you been seeing ghosts?
If sin were a philosophical expression, I should call it sinful. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. I must be up and doing; I must be no skulker in life's battle." So he rattled on, copiously greasing the joint of his inconsistency with words; while the boy listened silently, his eyes fixed on the horse, his mind seething.
As he sat in his shirt sleeves on the edge of his bunk Renmark said that things would look brighter in the morning which was a safe remark to make, for the night was dark. Yates sat silently, with his head in his hands, for some moments. At last he said slowly: "There is no one so obtuse as the thoroughly good man. It is not the messenger I am afraid of, after all.
I did not, for some weeks, strike or otherwise violently ill-use it, but gradually very gradually I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence as from the breath of a pestilence.
She listened to such speeches with bowed head, allowing him to kiss her hands, and admitting silently but gracefully that she was indeed an angel misunderstood. "I am too humiliated," she would say; "my past has robbed the future of all security."
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