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So the cry of that hopeless soul rang up to the stars unanswered, and the night frowned down upon him with impenetrable darkness. End of the tragedy of Jason's Quest, which might easily have been a pleasant comedy if Maud had only spoken her mind in the right place.
The higher culture, of Scotland especially, was all but exclusively French not a good kind, while Voltaire and Volney still remained unanswered, and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" were accepted by all young gentlemen, and a great many young ladies who could read French, as the best account of the relation of the sexes.
From every quarter rose the devouring flames. Even the Kremlin did not escape and Napoleon was obliged to seek shelter outside the city, which continued to burn for three days, when the wind sank and rain poured upon the smoldering embers. The dismayed conqueror waited in vain. He wrote letters to the Czar, suggesting peace. His letters were left unanswered.
"The great question is still unanswered?" he said. His daughter bent her head, and then looked at him steadily. "I think we shall know in an hour or two. Is it important to you?" Deringham, who was not wholly master of himself, made a little grimace, and the girl glanced away from him with a curious shrinking.
But, among the men who already were masters of households of their own, there were many who deemed it shameful and unworthy to raise their voices in greeting to the tyrant whose heavy hand had oppressed them more than once; and a group of young men belonging to the party of the "Greens," who ran their own horses, had the fatal audacity to agree among themselves that they would leave Caesar's greeting unanswered.
"He struck me and in the devil's name he shall answer it." "Whenever you please. I did but defend the lady whom this coward insulted," said Vane, pale, and speaking in a voice low and vibrating with passion. He felt a pressure on his arm and heard in soft tones: "Thank you, but you mustn't risk your life for me. Come away." "What, and leave the fellow's challenge unanswered. Never!
Deacon Slowcome was not, in reality, more surprised at this outbreak than he had been when his "fore-quarter of bloody beef" had been accepted unchallenged, but he professed to be so; and in his elaborate astonishment allowed Janet's remarks about a slight mistake she had made, and about the impropriety of "looking a gift horse in the mouth" to pass unanswered.
She needed rest, but it would not come, and still her brain went whirling through the scenes of the past twenty-four hours, again and again recurring to the question "Why is he gone?" unanswered and yet ever repeated, as the dreadful wake-song of the wild Irish, the "Why did he die?" that haunts the ear that has once heard it for weeks afterwards. She tried to reason, but there was no reason.
One subsequent letter had Nancy despatched; this unanswered, she would write no more. She was herself surprised at the calmness with which she faced so dreadful a possibility as desertion by the man she had loved and married, the father of her baby. It meant, perhaps, that she could not believe such fate had really befallen her.
"I'm not going to slave myself, I can tell you!" replied Alexandra. "Phyllis must work. What else is she good for?" Regina left the question unanswered. "Well, you leave Phyllis wid me; I have something to say to her to tell her what she shall take, and how she must order herself. Den she come home and work her share no more."