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Gasping, with a bursting heart, overwhelmed by an unutterable joy of divination, Gale fumbled with the paper until he got it open. It was a certificate twenty-one years old, and recorded the marriage of Robert Burton and Nellie Warren.
Stephens had suggested as a possible way out of the present, intolerable situation. "No," he says sombrely, "no, Nancy, I have brought you no good news, and I am beginning to fear I never shall." And he does not see even now that the long quivering sigh which escapes from her pale lips is a sigh of unutterable if of pained and shamed relief.
I'll mend it afterwards when you've gone to bed." Because he was so tired himself the unutterable weariness in her voice smote him on the heart unbearably. He had never heard it before. It made him think of her, for the first time, not just as Christine, who looked after him and loved him, but as someone apart whom, perhaps, he did not know at all. Hadn't they asked him, "Who is Christine?"
But even had he known it was the fair fiend Venus herself moving before him under the guise of Eva, the spell of her unutterable beauty would have constrained him to follow her, though the goal were the Horselberg, death, and hell.
To her unutterable astonishment, her correspondent proved to be no less a person than old Mr. Clare! The philosopher's letter dispensed with all the ordinary forms of address, and entered on the subject without prefatory phrases of any kind, in these uncompromising terms: "I have more news for you of that contemptible cur, my son. Here it is in the fewest possible words.
When the reply came it of course breathed nothing but the most benignant sentiments in regard to France, while it expressed regret that it was necessary to carry fire and sword through that country in order to avert the unutterable woe which the crimes of the heretic Prince of Bearne were bringing upon all mankind.
On the contrary, to their unutterable bewilderment, they learned that the leaders of the German Social-Democracy had voted for the war-budgets, and that the rank and file of the movement were hammering out the goose-step on the roads of Belgium and France!
Clearly my brother-in-law was in a certain mood and no fit companion for the sensitive. Memories of the unutterable torment, to which on like occasions we had been mercilessly subjected, by reason of Berry's most shameless behaviour among strangers, rose up before us. The fact that he called after us caused Daphne to break into a run. Our luck was out.
To his unutterable relief, she at once explained what the doubt was. "I am afraid I offended you, in replying to your letter about Miss Jethro." In this case, Alban could enjoy the luxury of speaking unreservedly. He confessed that Emily's letter had disappointed him. "I expected you to answer me with less reserve," he replied; "and I began to think I had acted rashly in writing to you at all.
But now we are going away. We have been lent a little house in a quiet seaside place; I suppose I am ill at least, I am aware of a deep and unutterable fatigue at times, when I can rouse myself to nothing, but sit unoccupied, musing, glad to be alone, and only dreading the slightest interruption, the smallest duty.
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