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She posed with absolute self-possession before the stricken buyer, who stood, tongue-tied and motionless, while Zizzbaum orated oilily of the styles. On the model's face was her faint, impersonal professional smile that seemed to cover something like weariness or contempt. When the display was over Platt seemed to hesitate.
Can you, in any manner, account for it?" Rose at first seemed disposed to reply. Her lips parted, as if about to speak, and closed again, as glancing her eyes toward the open door, she seemed to expect the appearance of the steward's little, rotund form on its threshold, which held her tongue-tied.
"For me?" she asked, burying her face in their cool depths. "How too beautiful! I don't think I've ever seen roses so lovely before. There's there's something special about them, somehow," she added truthfully. "There is," he replied gravely, as he deposited his burden on the table. Suddenly tongue-tied, she made an effort to speak naturally of other matters, avoiding the personal.
On the contrary, the ladies do most of the talking, as some of us are absolutely tongue-tied. We can do nothing but sit and gaze at the young lady in our midst with all our eyes. She is a houri straight from Paradise, and we poor mortals just get a glimpse from beyond the gate, as it were. Then more arrivals keep dropping in by twos and threes, neighbouring settlers and chums of ours.
'Mr ? said Dollmann. 'Carruthers, I answered, distinctly. 'I was with Davies in the boat just now, but I don't think he introduced me. And now he has forgotten again, I added, dryly, turning towards Davies, who, having presented himself to Fräulein Dollmann, was looking feebly from her to von Brüning, the picture of tongue-tied awkwardness.
I'll tell you. You would stand whaur you are, and stare, tongue-tied, at me till I dropped. How do I ken? By the teaching o' that nicht. Ay, but there's a mair important thing I dinna ken, and that is whether I would be palsied wi' fear like the earl, or face death with the calmness o' the minister." Indeed, the contrast between Rintoul and Gavin was now impressive.
Liberty and even law were found to be luxuries in which war made us too poor to indulge. Truth itself was made tongue-tied to authority and became the handmaid of the State. To save ourselves and the world from barbarism we had to descend to the barbarous level of our foes, and poison-gas and the killing and starvation of women and children were developed into effective methods of warfare.
For Rita was not murdered and therefore where the necessity of a conscience to celebrate her crime? "'But you remained and grew more dolorous. Then you are something else. I suspect you of being the adroit ambassador the madmen have sent into my heaven to plead their cause. Yet why do you not plead? As an ambassador you are a tongue-tied, sniveling idiot. Therefore again, you escape logic.
He told her. It reassured him to go back to his foundations and to find them still standing. He lost his tongue-tied clumsiness and spoke rapidly, clearly, with brief, strong gestures. His haggard youth gave place to a forcible, aggressive maturity. He was like an architect who had planned for every inch and stone of his masterpiece. Next year he would pass his finals.
"Yes, yes, come here if you like, mother come close listen while I tell her how I love her. I don't care who hears. Why should I? If I weren't ill I'd care. I'd be tongue-tied I'd have gone on being tongue-tied for ever. Oh I bless being ill, I bless being ill I can say anything, anything " "Tussie, don't say it," entreated his mother. "The less you say now the more grateful you'll be later on.
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