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I took particular fancy to the roof, high, steep, old, with its slope of bluish slate, and the way the weather-worn chimneys seemed to grow out of it, like living things out of a deep soil. The only defect of the house is the blankness and bareness of its walls, which have none of those delicate parasites attached to them that one likes to see on the surface of old dwellings.
A blankness to run at and dash your head against. Mrs Verloc remained immovably seated. She kept still as the population of half the globe would keep still in astonishment and despair, were the sun suddenly put out in the summer sky by the perfidy of a trusted providence.
Babbitt tried to be jovial; he worked at it; but he could find nothing to interest him in Overbrook's timorousness, the blankness of the other guests, or the drained stupidity of Mrs. Overbrook, with her spectacles, drab skin, and tight-drawn hair. He told his best Irish story, but it sank like soggy cake. Most bleary moment of all was when Mrs.
Oliver Jordan paid so little heed to the running of the ranch and when he did make a suggestion he was so peremptory about it, that this commission to Hervey was not altogether astonishing. Nevertheless, it kept her absent-minded throughout breakfast. Red Perris was naturally somewhat offended by the blankness of her eye as she passed him over.
He was uncomfortably conscious of a slight flush rising to his face, as he met the bland enquiring stare of Sir Morton Pippitt's former butler now on 'temp'ry' service at the Manor, he became aware that there was also a new and rather pretty housemaid beside the said butler, who whispered when she ought to have been silent, and he saw blankness on the fat face of Mrs.
Wayne seemed to think so too, for it was she who spoke first, in a tone which she tried to make peremptory, in spite of its tremor of fear. "What did you come here for?" Ford looked at her for the first time in a blankness not without a dull element of pleasure. It was at least two or three years since he had seen anything so dainty not, in fact, since his own mother died.
I felt myself slipping into unconsciousness, and tried with all the power of my will to fight above the suffocating blankness and darkness that was rising around me. A little later I heard the stroke of oars, growing nearer and nearer, and the calls of a man. When he was very near I heard him crying, in vexed fashion, "Why in hell don't you sing out?"
He had voiced the facts only as they related to him; to everything else he gave the effect of a massive blankness. Argument, Lee saw, was useless. Extended to the heart of a tropical island, the virtuous indignations of a hard propriety still bound their movements.
Firio came with the eagerness of one who is restless for action. He leaned on the windowsill, his elbows spread, his chin cupped in his hands, his Indian blankness of countenance enlivened by the glow of his eyes, as jewels enliven dull brown velvet. "Firio, I have something to tell you." "Sí!" There was a laboring of Jack's throat muscles, and then he forced out the truth in a few words.
Here is another one, which begins as beautifully as Hedda Gabler could desire, and ends in blankness. The fact is, of course, that inspiration is no guarantee of perfection. The limitations of inspiration vary with the limitations of the writer a proposition that may be commended to the theologians. Genius can no more safeguard a man against his own ignorance than it can find a rhyme to "silver."
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