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Updated: June 14, 2025
After a period of immobility in the arms of Mrs Fyne, the girl, who had not said a word, tore herself out from that slightly rigid embrace. She struggled dumbly between them, they did not know why, soundless and ghastly, till she sank exhausted on a couch. Luckily the children were out with the two nurses. The hotel housemaid helped Mrs Fyne to put Flora de Barral to bed.
Even as she did, the mail-carrier brought two letters, both from the same town, as it happened Morristown, N.J. Each of them contained a check for $75, one from a happy mother "in gratitude and joy," the other from "one stricken by a great sorrow" that had darkened her life. Together they made the sum needed. We sat and looked at each other dumbly.
Moll stared at her in sheer astonishment. "You you don't want to hold my hand in yours, do you?" she murmured slowly, incredulously. "I do. You will find me a good friend, and you will need good friends, Moll." Dumbly the girl held out her hand. It was clasped firmly by Rachel Carter. They were half-way up the bank when Moll held back and tried to withdraw her hand.
A few of the youngest and most spirited girls those from families containing several workers indignantly quit. A few others murmured, but stayed on. The mass dumbly accepted the extra twist in the screw of the mighty press that was slowly squeezing them to death. Neither to them nor to Susan herself did it happen to occur that she was the cause of the general increase of hardship and misery.
Montigny and Tabary dumbly demanded a share of the booty, which the monk silently promised as he passed the little bag into the bosom of his gown. In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence. No sooner had the theft been accomplished than Villon shook himself, jumped to his feet, and began helping to scatter and extinguish the embers.
In that one burning glance the mists of the long years were melted, all things else were forgotten, and for the moment we stood alone the children of a long-dead generation in the solitude that our strange fate had made about us. Then her lips moved, not dumbly this time, and in a voice that woke, who shall say how many memories in my heart, she said, 'Have they awakened us, my lord?
Her large, terrified eyes looked up at me dumbly, and her face was white to the lips. I clasped her in my arms once more, and kissed her forehead and lips again and again in a paroxysm of passionate love and gladness. "Thank God!" I cried. "How I love you, Olivia!" I had told her only a few minutes before that the brain is ineffaceably stamped with the impress of every event in our lives.
I went dumbly through that stage of the poet's suffering, in which he feels the delicious pang of utterance, and makes an image of his sorrows.
Then, of course, you carried on, promised to get him more and more; said you could force a fortune from Mr. Penny, anything to keep the young man. Hey?" he demanded suddenly. The woman looked up with a haggard wonder, an irrepressible shudder; her hands raised and fell, and she nodded dumbly. "Then, while Culser was in the house, Mr.
The poor fellow's face was distorted and quivering, but he had no need to hold Janet. She had come close and was resting her hand upon his bowed shoulder. "Mark!" she whispered, "you mean you mean?" The man nodded dumbly. "And, of course, they would all turn upon her! They do not seem to know any reason for showing mercy. Oh! I do understand."
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