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In the next breath Dale answered the unspoken question. "I needed the money," he said in a low voice, his eyes lowered, "and and I had bad luck with it." "Yeah, I know, the cattle dying and all." "Cattle! What cattle?" Mr. Dale stared blankly at Racey. "Oh, them! Hell, they didn't have nothin' to do with it, them cattle didn't.
Is that what you show me when you raise your eyes blankly from some book, or return from the garden after those lonely walks of yours in the twilight? Or is it pity, not only for me, but also for yourself? Is it then that you see clearly what you've let yourself in for what that divine impulse of yours has brought you to?"
For the moment, thought grave, weary, and darkened fell on him; he had passed through what he would have suffered any amount of misconstruction to escape a disagreeable scene; he had been as unable as though he were a Commissionaire in the streets to advance a step to succor the necessities for which his help had been asked; and he was forced, despite all his will, to look for the first time blankly in the face the ruin that awaited him.
She had not the slightest notion that the woman who lived with the steward might be other than Mrs. Manston much less that a greater matter might be behind. 'That's not it I wish it was no more. My suspicion is, first, that the woman living at the Old House is not Mr. Manston's wife. 'Not Mr. Manston's wife? 'That is it. Miss Aldclyffe looked blankly at the rector. 'Not Mr.
Leave your stove, your pots and pans and chores, even if only for one day! Come out and see the sun in the sky and the river in the distance!" The farmer looked blankly at Parnassus as we passed, and then I remembered my mission as a distributor of literature. Mifflin was sitting with one foot on his bulging portmanteau, watching the tree tops rocking in the cool wind.
It will be glorious, father, if you will only let us go." Mr. Vickars looked blankly as Geoffrey poured out his torrent of words. His mind was still full of the book he had been reading, and he hardly took in the meaning of Geoffrey's words. "Going in a ketch!" he repeated. "Going to catch something, I suppose you mean? Do you mean he is going fishing?" "No, father, going in a ketch.
For a moment she stared blankly at me, then she asked me, as if the thought had just occurred to her, "There isn't any other girl, is there?" "There never was any other girl," I said. "There was always only the one, but she failed...."
I was thinking of something quite different. 'Oh! exclaimed the girl, blankly. There was a longer silence. Jessie let her eyes stray about the room, stealing a glance at Dagworthy occasionally. Presently he rose, poked the fire with violence, and drank his own wine, which had been waiting so long.
They bought the special editions of the evening papers; they read the military dispatches and the stories of the war correspondents from beginning to end; they stared blankly at the printed columns that recorded the disasters of Nicholson's Nek, and Colenso and Spion Kop.
The wailing ceased, but Enrico remained seated, his hands still clutching his bushy hair, while his large brown eyes stared blankly from a face as white as a pierrot. "What's the matter?" Morris repeated. "His bank busted on him," said Nathan Schenkman, the shipping clerk. "His bank!" Morris cried. "What bank?" "It ain't a regular bank," Nathan explained.