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But the art of fascination seems among the artes perditae, and I cannot learn that this most pertinacious of starers produced any effect by his attentions beyond an occasional yawn.
His grandfather trimmed the light in the lantern and made no answer. "The man is lost," he said a little later, with a yawn. "He is lost, and his children are ruined, too. It's a disgrace for his children for the rest of their lives now." The porter came back and sat down by the lantern. "He is dead," he said. "They have sent to the almshouse for the old women to lay him out."
Dover stood waving a rainbow over his head, while several Indian gods and three little girls were dancing round him, hand in hand, to the tune of "Ring around a rosy." A loud yawn roused her, and there was Cis peeping out of her door to see what time it was by the old-fashioned clock on the landing.
His host either did not, or would not, perceive that these remarks were ironical, and pursued the subject to its details, proportions of profits, balance-sheets, etc., until Charles rose with a yawn, and left his two elders together.
"I have enough for Lucy and me to live on," said Hope, although his face had flushed, "and, had I been a pauper I could not have given you that thousand pounds." "You will be repaid you will be repaid," said Braddock, waving his hand to dismiss the subject. "And now," he rose with a yawn, "if this tedious feast is at an end, I shall again seek my work."
To get the taste of the party off his mouth, I suppose? He didn't say anything to you then about being tired of his London season?" "Not a word. He seemed tired of the dinner party. He yawned." "And I'm sure that you yawned in sympathy. When a man so far forgets himself as to yawn in the presence of a woman, she never fails to respond with one of more ample circumference.
This is why we watch sad scenes on the stage with such patience. We are not eager for them to be got over. Maybe they are very uninteresting scenes, as well as sad ones, and they make us yawn; but we have no desire to see them hurried through. The longer they take the better pleased we are: we know that when they are finished the comic lovers will come on.
John Willet and John Grueby appeared together. The one bearing the great candlesticks, and the other the portmanteau, showed the deluded lord into his chamber; and left the secretary alone, to yawn and shake himself, and finally to fall asleep before the fire. 'Now, Mr Gashford sir, said John Grueby in his ear, after what appeared to him a moment of unconsciousness; 'my lord's abed. 'Oh.
Prince Michael affected to yawn. "Oh, is that all?" he asked. "All! Grand Dieu, what more would you have? It means everything." "My good Julius, it is long since I was so disturbed. What, then, has happened? The Danube in flood is no new thing." "The Danube!" and the newcomer's voice cracked. "So you do not know sire?" The little word seemed to have the explosive force of nitroglycerine.
"We don't propose to," said Daphne. Berry regarded her sorrowfully. "I suppose," he said, "I suppose you know what word will be found at the post-mortem graven upon my heart?" "What?" said Daphne, stifling a yawn. "Plunge." It was quite a good day to choose a bath. True, it was winter.