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But, because these articles are a simple record of what I have seen and what I have heard, they may perhaps be of use in bringing out of the shadow that awful shadow of "usualness" into which they have fallen many incidents that would, before the war, have roused the world to wonder, to pity and to infinite awe.
He seemed satisfied with this verbal message, and I watched him shuffle down the steps, in spite of his loose-hung gait, with admirable quickness. Then I told Lee that I was going out; dinner at half-past two, all as simply and usually as if I had been intending merely to stroll over to the beach. But there the usualness of things ended. Mr.
"But the fire!" interjected Lady Ella, disposing of that idea. "I want you to know, all of you, the faith I have," he said. Daphne had remained seated at the table. "Are we never to go to church again?" she asked, as if at a loss. Scrope went back into his little study. He felt shy and awkward with his daughters now. He felt it would be difficult to get back to usualness with them.
Of course I know, and I know for a fact." GLEN ELLEN. October 2, 1916. There was a great noise and racket, but no scandal, in Honolulu's Chinatown. Those within hearing distance merely shrugged their shoulders and smiled tolerantly at the disturbance as an affair of accustomed usualness.
And afterwards the People did wander over that Country of Silence, and made visit and honour to their Ancestors, if such were deserving. And presently, the mighty lifts did raise them all to the Cities of the Pyramid; and thereafter there was something more of usualness; save that ever the embrasures were full of those that watched the Youths afar upon the Great Road.
So, often, had I heard other companions move and mutter in the darkness and lie down again. It was the very naturalness and usualness of every fact of the night, the stable straw, the rain outside, my familiar blankets, the cool visits of the wind, and with all this the thought of Steve chewing and the man in the gray flannel shirt, that made the hours unearthly and strung me tight with suspense.
"Behave like WHO?" she repeated, and upon his yielding to her petulant insistence, she made up her mind that the only thing to do was to tell Dr. Gurney about it. "Like Bildad the Shuhite!" was what Bibbs said. The outward usualness of things continued after dinner.
Then the woods moved off and they rolled into a broad space like the baked top of a gigantic cake, sugared with an infinity of tents arranged in geometric figures over its surface. The train came to an uncertain stop, and the sun and the poles and the trees faded, and his universe rocked itself slowly back to its old usualness, with Anthony Patch in the centre.
Bibbs went for his drive, and his mother went with him, as she sometimes did when the weather was pleasant. Altogether, the usualness of things was rather startling to Bibbs. During the drive Mrs. Sheridan talked fragmentarily of Jim's childhood. "But you wouldn't remember about that," she said, after narrating an episode. "You were too little. He was always a good boy, just like that.
But instead of being complimented, as a man might have been if told that his wife had married him because he was a good lawyer, or surgeon, or blacksmith, this unusual housekeeper, suffering a renaissance of usualness, denounced the guest as a liar, ordered him out of the house, and threatened to leave her husband.
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