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Updated: April 30, 2025
For although his subconscious brain was discomfortably alert and voluble, ordered consecutive thought refused to come at his bidding. He gave it up at length for the simpler expedient of pacing to and fro in the measured mechanical fashion most conducive to weariness of mind and body.
There was a glance from eyes whose luster time and irregular living had conspired to dim. "Ah! you men!" Mrs. Pendomer retorted. "And there we have the tragedy of life in a nutshell!" Silence lasted for a while. The colonel was finding this matutinal talk discomfortably opulent in pauses. "Rudolph, and has it never occurred to you that in marrying Patricia you swindled her?"
She was a tall and rather stout woman, with a pretty, small-featured, regular face, and a thin nose with the nostrils pinched. Castle Weelset was not much of a castle: to an ancient round tower, discomfortably habitable, had been added in the last century a rather large, defensible house. It stood on the edge of a gorge, crowning one of its stony hills of no great height.
In any bliss greater than our wont, we can only hang out, to demonstrate our felicity, the sign and standard of woe. "Nancy!" Did ever any one feel as I do for long?" "I do not know how can I tell?" reply I, discomfortably, as I absently eye the two halves of my paper-knife, which, after having given one or two warning cracks, has now snapped in the middle. Then Roger enters, and our talk ends.
But Lenox, drawing out pipe and tobacco-pouch, as he watched her go, was discomfortably aware that his first attempt at remonstrance had ended in strategic surrender. Not only had he failed to dispel the nameless cloud that hung upon him, but he had managed matters so ill that now the whole subject must be labelled 'dangerous'; not to be reopened except under special stress of circumstance.
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