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He welcomed the approach of Dona Mirana, and all three returned to the house. For the rest of that evening he spoke little; but he had formed his project. When the two ladies retired Rodriguez, who had seemed tongue-tied for many hours, turned to Don Alderon.
Timid, he gave to the employer a great loyalty, which was in part based on his awe of any aggressive personality. In society this man was tongue-tied, embarrassed and overawed by the well-dressed and prosperous-looking. His sense of inferiority was in no way compensated for, and to avoid pain he became a sort of recluse, doing his work and returning to his shell, so to speak, each night.
'For a shy man, conscious that the girl he loves is inspecting him closely and making up her mind about him, he proceeded, 'these unexpected meetings are very trying ordeals. You must not form your judgement of me too hastily. You see me now, nervous, embarrassed, tongue-tied. But I am not always like this. Beneath this crust of diffidence there is sterling stuff, Miss Warden.
But not so Con. For in the presence of woman he was tongue-tied and scarlet.
In the rostrum he was tongue-tied and incapable, sometimes turning his back on the audience and mumbling to the diagrams on the wall. In the laboratory he felt himself at home, and ever after confined his duties mostly to demonstration. He achieved renown by a great experiment the measurement of the velocity of electricity in a wire. His method was beautiful and ingenious.
He could scarcely distinguish the articles of furniture at the further end of the room. For some reason or other he felt tongue-tied. Then, without any answer from him to this mysterious summons, the handle of the door slowly turned. As he sat there he saw it pushed open. A woman, wrapped in a long coat, stepped inside, closing it firmly behind her. She stood peering around the room.
Randall went as far as the stile in the birch wood between the Burnley and the Sparhallow land and he kept her there talking for another half-hour and though he talked only of a book he had read and a new puppy he was training, Janet listened with her soul in her ears. She talked too quite freely; she was never in the least shy or tongue-tied or awkward in Randall's company.
All for having set up a truckle bed in a wretched garret in the roof. As for the place in the Admiralty, Barkilphedro owed it to Josiana; by Jove, a pretty appointment! Josiana had made Barkilphedro what he was. She had created him. Be it so. Yes, created nothing less than nothing. For in his absurd situation he felt borne down, tongue-tied, disfigured. What did he owe Josiana?
"Tell me the truth," said he abruptly, his eyes fixed piercingly upon mine, "how Tom met his death." After a moment's confusion, I answered: "I can add nothing to what has been told you, sir." He looked at me awhile in silence; then said, with a sorrowful frown: "I make no doubt you are tongue-tied by a compact. But you need not fear me.
He sometimes went days without speaking even to Rad. And that was one of the sources of irritation between the voluble colored man and the giant. "'Tain't human," Rad often said, "for nobody to say nothin' as much as dat Koku does. Why, lawsy me! if he was tongue-tied an' speechless, an' a deaf an' dumb mute, he couldn't say nothin' more obstreperously dan he does no sir! 'Tain't human."
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