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Moreover, fresh moose-meat would not be unappreciated in his backwoods cabin. He turned and retraced his steps at a run, fearing lest some hungry spring marauders should arrive in his absence. And the calf, more than ever terrified by his mother's unresponsiveness, stared after him uneasily as he vanished. For half an hour nothing happened.
It had that result, at any rate, upon Maggie herself. She soon lost, however, consideration of Miss Avies in the wider observation of the Chapel and its congregation. It was, as it had been on the occasion of her first visit to it, stuffy, smelling of gas and brick and painted wood, ugly in its bareness and unresponsiveness and, nevertheless, exciting.
I warnt thee!" and again, "I warnt thee, Frarsty! Frarsty! Frar r r rsty!" drawn out in an inconceivable passionlessness of desire again and again, till I felt myself absorbing the ridiculous yearning for an absurd person and inclined to weep hysterical tears at his unresponsiveness.
But no one ever looked for much display of feeling from Helen Thurwell, not even the man who called himself her lover. Indeed, her unresponsiveness to his advances a sort of delicate composure which he was powerless in any way to break through had been her strongest attraction to Sir Geoffrey Kynaston, who was quite unused to anything of the sort.
By a previously mentioned system of governor regulation, however, it is possible, considering again for a moment the case of three machines in parallel, by decreasing the sensitiveness of one governor only, to accommodate nearly all the total variation in load by means of the two remaining machines, the unresponsiveness of the one governor to change in speed maintaining the load on that machine fairly constant.
And in the visions, both the waking and the sleeping, she reached the climax of horror when the monster touched her with clammy, creepy fingers, with munching lips, with the sharp ends of the mustache or imperial. Said Mrs. Presbury to her husband, "I'm afraid the general will be irritated by Mildred's unresponsiveness." "Don't worry," replied Presbury.
"I've never had the beginning of a chance; and besides, she is promised to another man." The woman was breathing hard again. "I heerd about that, too jest the other day. I don't believe hit!" "It is true, just the same. But I didn't come out here to talk about Miss Dabney. I want to know a name the name of a man." She shook her head again and relapsed into unresponsiveness.
His clear-cut features, something too sharply defined for absolute regularity, with the unassertive effect of his straight auburn hair, his deliberate, contemplative glance, his reserved, high-bred look, the quiet decorum of his manner, were not suggestive of the tumult of his inner consciousness, and the unresponsiveness of his aspect baffled Briscoe.
John was emotional enough to be badly broken up by the child's looks, but Elizabeth's unresponsiveness at such a time made of it a tragedy which he could not understand; he wanted greetings and discussion, and attentions showered upon him as usual, and they were not forthcoming.
His recent bitter experience raw in his heart, Sonny did not dare to respond, but lay with his nose on his paws, unstirring, while the child sprawled over him. After a few minutes this utter unresponsiveness chilled even the Kid's enthusiasm. He jumped up and cast his eyes about in search of some diversion more exciting.