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So Tua spake, and waited a while, but Rames said nothing. He opened his mouth to answer, indeed, but a dumbness sealed his lips. "Nurse," she went on presently, "I cannot persuade this Lord that I am Egypt and no other. Try you." So Asti loosed her black veil, and let it fall about her feet.
After waiting many weary Years, Sylvester once more had a School Desk of his own. It was in the far corner of a crowded Pit surrounded by elevated Seats. The Hon. Sylvester found himself entirely surrounded by victims of involuntary Dumbness. By referring to a printed List he ascertained that he was a member of the Committee on Manual Training for the Alaskan Indians.
She talked her cool philosophy to mask her excitement from herself. Her card, marked: 'Imperative-two minutes, was taken up to Mr. Tonans. They ascended to the editorial ante-room. Doors opened and shut, hasty feet traversed the corridors, a dull hum in dumbness told of mighty business at work. Diana received the summons to the mighty head of the establishment. Danvers was left to speculate.
The famous Fenella, in Scott's "Peveril of the Peak," only assumes deafness and dumbness; and the whole family of dumb people on the stage have the remarkable faculty so far as my experience goes of always being able to hear what is said to them.
Then came the long, log-like stupor of their exhaustion. With the day, vocabulary, grammar, logic returned. They still iterated and reiterated their experiences, but with a coherence which gradually grew to consistence. In between, however, came sudden, sinister attacks of dumbness. "I remember wondering," Billy Fairfax broke their last silence suddenly, "what would become of the ship's cat."
'I feared that dumbness! Diana said, letting her hand go, but keeping her composure. 'My friend Percy, I am not a lion-tamer, and if you are of those animals, we break the chapter. Plainly you think that where there appears to be a choice of fools, the woman is distinctly designed for the person. Drop my hand, or I shall repeat the fable of the Goose with the Golden Eggs.
Prayer, nor meditation, nor long memories of the past, nor hopes for the future, had any potency. He was stupefied by the thing demanded of him, and the simple, vivid cry which always brings help had not yet been forced from his lips. But at the last moment it came. Then the coldness and dumbness and wretched inertness that had bound him, body and soul, were gone.
There it seemed sheer horror; but often when wounded they look towards one with a world of pitiful appeal for relief; in their dumbness loud-voicedly reproachful against the horrors of war. Two men being killed on one horse seems rather a tall order, yet it is perfectly true. It happened at the cavalry charge after Elandslaagte.
The teacher would probably have a theory that no child should begin to talk till he was two or even two and a half years old; and if so, the child would be kept in a state of enforced dumbness till he reached that age. In any case, he would be strictly forbidden to speak till his teacher gave him formal permission to do so.
She had pored on the little face until she knew death, and now she sat a speechless mother of sorrow, bending in the dim light of the tomb over the body of her holy infant. How it was I cannot tell, but the moment her father saw her she looked up, and the spell of her dumbness broke. "Jesus is dead," she said, slowly and sadly, but with perfect calmness. "He is dead," she repeated.
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