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After two more interviews with shopmen, however, the patriot's confidence in his own psychological diplomacy began vaguely to wane. Despite the care with which he considered the peculiar rationale and the peculiar glory of each separate shop, there seemed to be something unresponsive about the shopmen.
Before he could shoot the bolt, strong arms were thrusting it back upon him from the other side. He struggled for a second; then, feeling himself overpowered, ran back to the window. The girl had fallen against the wall in the embrasure of the window; she was more than half insensible; and when he tried to raise her in his arms, her body was limp and unresponsive.
There is such a thing as being carried away by a man's violent devotion, but it isn't the violent love that lasts." Lily considered that carefully, and she felt that there was some truth in it. When Louis Akers came to take her home that night he found her unresponsive and thoughtful. "Mrs. Doyle's been talking to you," he said at last. "She hates me, you know." "Why should she hate you?"
The dull silence, the unresponsive preoccupation of whatever life was in sight, made it all seem as remote from him and from this tragedy as from the stars. In fact, it was impersonal and remote to such a degree that Hambleton's practical mind, halted yet an instant, in doubt whether there were not some plausible explanation.
If you only knew, Sylvia!" "Yes, but I don't know," she answered, and now she looked at him. "I suppose that, if I loved, I should know, I should understand." Her hands lay in his, listless and unresponsive to the pressure of his. She spoke slowly and thoughtfully, meeting his gaze with troubled eyes. "Yet you were glad to see me when I came," he urged. "Glad, yes!
"Thought it was some of them lumber-jacks, and I was going to fire 'em below. Fine night." "It is that," answered Thorpe, again the cold, unresponsive man of reticence. "When do you expect to get in, Captain?" "About to-morrow noon," replied the captain, moving away. Thorpe followed him a short distance, discussing the landing.
Albert did not patronise the more serious drama, and for Joanna the British stage became synonymous with fluffy heads and whirling legs and jokes she could not understand. The late hours made her feel very tired, and on their way home Albert would find her sleepy and unresponsive.
Many country ministers again, we, miserable men that we are, are never happy or well placed, complain continually that their people are so few, and so scattered, and so ignorant, and so uninteresting, and so unresponsive, that it is not worth their toil to go up and down in remote places seeking after them.
It is not certain that, heeding, he would have cared. Relief he must have at any cost, and this was the one means at his command. His own voice, laden with passionate sadness, came echoing back to him from the unresponsive walls, and in time the echo checked his outcry.
It seemed the most natural thing that they should resume their late conversation just where they had left off, and that would certainly be pleasant. But the man of more experience showed an unresponsive expression, that was as if he remembered no conversation of any note. "I have been told that you might be able to replace the glass in this thing out of your private stock."
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