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Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish and the sinister Ralph rage in that language. As to the Crummles family and the family of the learned Squeers it seemed as natural to them as their native speech. It was, I have no doubt, an excellent translation. This must have been in the year '70. But I really believe that I am wrong. That book was not my first introduction to English literature.
Warwick sat in an arm-chair, his legs out straight on the heels, his jaw dragging hollow cheeks, his hands loosely joined; improving in health, he said. A demure woman of middle age was in attendance. He did not speak of his wife. Three times he said disconnectedly, 'I hear reports, and his eyelids worked.
Perhaps it was the old tragic tender feeling for Margery which impelled him. Perhaps he unconsciously longed to read that this man had loved her that she had not given her life for nothing that the story had not been one of common caprice and common treachery. As he walked his varied thoughts surged through his brain disconnectedly.
It was the only time he ever talked to him about it: he was never sure that Braun had understood him, for he talked disconnectedly, and it was very late, and, in spite of his eager interest, Braun was nearly dead with sleep. From that time on Christophe's existence was reconstituted.
Often I seized a piece of paper and scribbled off, disconnectedly, in pencil, remarks corresponding to the internal agitation of my mind, jottings like the following, for example: S.R., that restive fanatic, has a wife who cannot believe, and wishes for nothing but to be left in peace on religious matters.
He couldn’t be calmed, however much she tried to soothe him: he kept walking about the room, speaking strangely, disconnectedly. At last he sat down, put his elbows on the table, leaned his head on his hands and pronounced this strange sentence: “If it’s not Dmitri, but Smerdyakov who’s the murderer, I share his guilt, for I put him up to it. Whether I did, I don’t know yet.
Ech, they won’t be half an hour before us, let alone an hour.” Though Mitya bustled about seeing after things, he gave his orders strangely, as it were disconnectedly, and inconsecutively. He began a sentence and forgot the end of it. Pyotr Ilyitch found himself obliged to come to the rescue.
He was touching unconsciously the dead husks of flowers as he passed by, and talking disconnectedly to himself. 'You can't go away, he was saying. 'There IS no away. You only withdraw upon yourself. He threw a dead flower-husk on to the water. 'An antiphony they lie, and you sing back to them. There wouldn't have to be any truth, if there weren't any lies. Then one needn't assert anything
Lingard moved a little, and this slight stir near her precipitated her disordered and shapeless thoughts into hurried words. "Wait!" she exclaimed in a stifled voice, and went on disconnectedly and rapidly "Stay. I have heard. Men often spoke by the fires . . . men of my people.
His eyes were unpleasant to look into. His face changed. And he mumbled. Slone pitied him the more, but wished to see the last of him. Creech stayed on, however, and grew stranger and more talkative during the meal. He repeated things often talked disconnectedly, and gave other indications that he was not wholly right in his mind.
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