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I have seen this particular man pass from an ungainly speechlessness into brutal onslaughts on inoffensive persons; and it is one of the most unpleasant transformations in the world. On the other hand, the modest and amiable man of distinction is one of the most agreeable figures it is possible to encounter.
You shall find his approach to the spirit of Christopher Wren is as clear and direct as his feeling for the vastiness of New England speechlessness. He has come up beyond the dramatisation of emotion to the point of expression for its own sake.
Laughing, I slipped some silver into the hand of the eldest child. "This is not pay; it's a present." The girl was awed into speechlessness at sight of money of her own, and the parents did not know how to thank me for her, but bade me "Stay on, stranger; pore folks has a pore way, but you're welcome to what we got."
"I undertake," he said, "to prove to really enlightened men, that this poor creature is partly pretending to be imbecile, and that his obstinate speechlessness is only adopted in order to avoid answers which would compromise him." At first, however, neither M. de Chandore nor M. Folgat gave any answer. They were considering the question.
He opened an abyss at her feet, and in deadly alarm of him she exclaimed: 'Oh! not yet; not immediately. She trembled, she made her petition dismal by her anguish of speechlessness. 'There will be such... not yet! Perhaps later. They must not be troubled yet at present. I am... I cannot pray, delay! 'But you are mine! said Alvan. 'You feel it as I do. There can be no real impediment?
Blank sounds, caused by speechlessness. Sounds of speechlessness. "I may come back, if you'll take me back sometime...." A man was always an imbecile. Imbecility is a trademark. But there were no sounds now. His eyes tried to turn away from her. A face had ceased to live and give forth sounds. He remained looking at it.
He endured some minutes of total speechlessness at this pace, and abruptly said adieu and turned back. Renee bounded like a vessel free of her load. 'But why should we hurry? said she, and checked her course to the walk again. 'I hope you like our Normandy, and my valley.
He was silent, enjoying her sternness, glad to have roused her, no matter what the consequences; knowing that each second heightened the climax. Apparently she interpreted his speechlessness in a different way. She said after a moment: "That sounds like quittin' cold on you. I won't do it unless you try some fool thing like riding back toward Drew."
Gentility is a quality which the possessor never seeks to establish as his own by word of mouth; he leaves it to inference and the rule has no exception. This brilliant speechlessness arises not through modesty, but ignorance.
He would think it all over and come solemnly to the conclusion that the reason for his mumbling stupidity, his toeing and heeling, and all that idiotic speechlessness that set Emmy on her hind legs, was sheer love of the truth. He couldn't tell a lie to a woman. That would be it.
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