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He had almost forgotten the oriflamme that sometimes signalled to him from the top of the hill, and seldom even glanced that way. In the gathering dusk, Rosemary took it down, unemotionally. It seemed only part of the great denial. She put it back into the box, and hid it in the tree. "Service," she said to herself, as she went home, "and sacrifice. Giving, not receiving; asking, not answer.
Him heap good coat," he wound up unemotionally, and proceeded to put it on. "And the other white man what became of him?" Nicholas shrugged: "Kaiomi," though it was plain he knew well enough the other lay under the Yukon ice. "And that that was the end of the fellows who went by jeering at us!" "We'd better not crow yet," said Mac.
"If I hadn't the child, Signore Andrea! But you want to sleep, and I'm still standing here, chatting away like a soup, cooking noisily over a hot fire. Sleep well, and welcome to Venice!" Unemotionally, he returned her greeting and did not seem to notice that she was obviously still expecting him to make a kind remark about her daughter.
Wid Gardner unemotionally accompanied them into the room of the barracks where, on a couple of boards, between two carpenter's trestles, lay a long figure covered with a blanket. "Scout Gardner got him last night about nine o'clock, sir," said the Sergeant; "out in the lane behind the gate. Called to him to halt, and he didn't stop." "He didn't have no chanct to halt," said Wid Gardner calmly.
Bettina asked, remembering that there had been notice given of the advent of two girl babies. "They died," Lady Anstruthers answered unemotionally. "They both died before they were a year old. There is only Ughtred." Betty glanced at the boy and saw a small flame of red creep up on his cheek. Instinctively she knew what it meant, and she put out her hand and lightly touched his shoulder.
I implore you to accept me as a disciple. "When the great guru made no response, the man pointed to the rocky chasm at his feet. "'If you refuse me, I will jump from this mountain. Life has no further value if I cannot win your guidance to the Divine. "'Jump then, Babaji said unemotionally. 'I cannot accept you in your present state of development.
There was something symbolic in their emptiness. "You won't come back. It's the end. You weren't sent, after all." How or why he said it, he never could tell. The words were utterly unpremeditated. He spoke them, ordinarily and unemotionally, as though throwing out a casual suggestion. "We could get married, if that would make you happier." "It's what I'd like." His heart missed a beat.
Quite calmly and unemotionally she would explain the situation to him. She would point out the impossibility, the absurdity even, of keeping an agreement entered into, by one of the parties at least, in hot blood, and thoroughly repented of, on later and saner reflection.
"'S hot day," he announced unemotionally, and took the paper which the red-blanketed one held out to him. His air of condescension could not hide the fact that behind his pride at being able to read print he was unhappily aware also of his limitations in the accomplishment. Along the scare-head Luck had indicated, his dirty forefinger moved slowly while he spelled out the words.
"Yes, that's about what you'd be thinking, all right," retorted Dade unemotionally. "Sounds perfectly natural." The tone of him, being unsympathetic, precipitated an argument which flung crisp English sentences back and forth across the cabin.
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