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"'Mr. Smith' can't." Her caller turned and stared at her blankly. "His 'grandfather' can have him," said Miss Lydia. "What!" "His relations can have Johnny." "But I " "If you are a relation," Miss Lydia said her voice was only a little whisper "you can have him."
The focussing in the quiet room sharpened, grew more intense; the liquid light of dawn began to flood the air, and a bright shaft shot across the hill as the sun swam up over the rim of the moor. It fell across the bed, and Phoebe stirred and opened her eyes. Their gaze rested blankly on Ishmael, wandered round the room, then fell to the round head against her shoulder.
Often it seemed to bring death. Things would become vague and she would move through the hours unaware of them. The joyousness of Eddie drifted away. She remained smiling blankly at him. His words slipped past her ear. Inside, she was wandering disheveled thoughts were wandering through a darkness.
She also called to various members of the family, saying she wanted to tell them something, but when they came she would only stare blankly. For a day she followed her mother around, clung to her, said once she wanted to say something to her, but only stared and said nothing. Four days before admission she became quite immobile, lay in bed, did not speak, eat or drink. She also had some fever.
Sir Andrew ceased reading, but, as though still under the influence of the book, sat looking, blankly, into the open fire. For a brief space, no one moved until the baronet withdrew his eyes and, with a sudden start of recollection, felt, anxiously, for his watch. He scanned its face eagerly, and scrambled to his feet.
The effect was much like that produced in striking a discordant note in a hitherto faultless piece of music. Young men out of business needing help, needing an encouraging word, an out-stretched hand! Professor Ellis had words, and hands, but he might have been without either for all the help they gave him in responding to efforts like these. Truly he could only stare blankly at the suggestion.
"The watch was not worth a quarter of the money, Mother." "No, indeed, and your father was a shrewd man up to the last moment. He was too steady and thrifty for silly doings." "Where did the watch come from, I wonder," muttered Hans, half to himself. Dame Brinker shook her head and looked sadly toward her husband, who sat staring blankly at the floor. Gretel stood near him, knitting.
He did not keep them waiting. "Pursuant to the authority vested in me by these acts, I hereby declare that a state of war exists between us and the people of Alma. I also declare the International Commission dissolved as such; the same is now my general staff, and will remain where it now is indefinitely!" The nine looked at each other blankly. Were they under arrest?
"I am nearly always at home in the afternoon, or rather I shall be after next Thursday," he added, as an afterthought. "I am going to town this evening." "Going away?" she asked, a little blankly. "I have to go up to London," he answered, "but it is only for two days." There was a short, uneasy silence. Rochester purposely avoided speech. He understood the situation exactly.
"Can't we go, Ma'm'selle?" demanded Tom. "Go where?" asked Alexia. She had been leaning against the window-frame, staring out blankly. Her face was paler than usual, the lines of the mouth more rigid, her hair even more coldly absent and abstracted.
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