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As first selectman of this town I congratulate you on gettin' home, and extend the compliments of the season." He briskly shook Mr. Crymble's limp hand a palm as unresponsive as the tail of a dead fish. "Now," continued the Cap'n, dropping his assumed geniality, "you stay here where I've put you. If I catch you off'm these primises I'll bat your old ears and have you arrested for a tramp.
You have not kissed me once. You are as unresponsive as a stone. And think what I have dared to do." She looked about her with a shiver, though half the look was curiosity. "Just think of where I am." "I could die for you! I could die for you!" Lizzie's words were ringing in his ears. "Why didn't you dare it before?" he asked harshly. "When I hadn't a job? When I was starving?
"Then all ends well all quits! And, Jack," he swung Jack, who was unresisting but unresponsive, around facing him, "if you ever have any doubts or any questions to ask bring them to me, won't you?" "Yes." "And, Jack, a hundred a week to-morrow! You're all right, Jack!" And he gave Jack a slap on the back as they left the dining-room. Light sang in the veins and thoughts of a city.
Not that this kind, faithful, helpful soul was a lifeless stone; but that he was as unresponsive to the movements of his time as a boulder is to the energies of a field. Alive in his own sublime way he was, and inextricably rooted in one ever-living book alone the Bible.
'Oh bother! said Mr Tappertit. 'Here. Catch hold of her, somebody. Lock her up again; she never ought to have been let out. 'My Simmun! cried Miss Miggs, in tears, and faintly. 'My for ever, ever blessed Simmun! 'Hold up, will you, said Mr Tappertit, in a very unresponsive tone, 'I'll let you fall if you don't. What are you sliding your feet off the ground for?
They sang as only Italians can sing as naturally as they breathed, and with a rich and overflowing innocent joy in the art which Nature had taught them. They sang loudly, swingingly, glancing full of naive hope up at the windows of the vast, unresponsive hotel. 'So you are still in Mentone, I ventured. 'Yes, he said. 'Come for a walk. 'But 'Come for a walk. 'Very well, I consented.
Lady Montgomery dropped her lorgnette with a little clatter and, adjusting her heavy diamond bracelets, turned her sleek mid-Victorian head to her neighbour. Gregory did not know whether to be amused or vexed. It was now his part to carry on a conversation with the great woman: and he found the task difficult. She was not silent, nor unresponsive.
She started forward into absolute darkness. There was a man's footsteps going swiftly by her. Why was it so dark? She stretched out her hands with a moan. "Oh! mother! oh! mother! I am blind!" she cried. But her mother was sleeping unresponsive beyond the dark-beyond all dark. It was, perhaps, natural that she should cry to the dead and not to the living. Marie was blind.
It lay leaden and dull, tufted with little white crests of foam. The man and woman stood side by side, motionless, unresponsive. It was as though a sword had suddenly descended, cleaving them asunder. Presently she heard him mutter in a low tone of anguish: "So this this, too must be added to the price!" The pain in his voice pulled at her heart. She stretched out her hands towards him. "Max!
Patty was surprised at this, for Ruth had always seemed so cold and unresponsive, that it didn't seem as if she had any affection in her nature. The other members of the Fleming family echoed Ruth's sentiments, and though Patty felt sure their expressions were honestly meant, yet she thought, too, that as soon as she had gone, she would be forgotten in the rush of their busy life.
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