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She would do all and everything that Dino required from her, if only she could conquer this terrible helplessness of feeling, this dumbness of tongue which had come over her. Surely it was but a passing phase: surely when someone came and stood before her the spell would be broken, and she would be able to speak once more. The maid peeped in, thought she was sleeping, and quietly retired.
You can get nothing more out of her, except in some spasm of madness. She is driven to extremes by her dumbness. I am brought to this sermon by two things: what happened to me when Rowena Fewkes came over to see me in the early summer of 1859, a year almost to a day from the time when Magnus and I left Blue-grass Manor after our spell of work there: and what our best cow, Spot, did yesterday.
Epilepsy, mental and nervous maladies, in which the patient seems no longer to belong to himself, and infirmities, the cause of which is not apparent, as deafness, dumbness, were explained in the same manner.
It is too high a thought for me until I hear it. 'Has your soul! was all that Victor could reply, while the whole conception of Lakelands quaked under the crumbling structure. Remonstrance, argument, a word for Dudley, swelled to his lips and sank in dumbness.
For the sake of this hoard he had given up his companionship with the Dwarfs and his delight in making and shaping the things of their workmanship. For the sake of his hoard he had taken on himself the dumbness and deafness of a fish. Now as he swam about before the cave he was aware again of a shadow above him. He slipped toward the shadow of the bank.
Durant to-day about the tree planting; but Alice was stricken with temporary dumbness and never opened her lips, though she had solemnly promised to do at least half the talking; so I had to wade right into the subject alone. I began in medias res, for I couldn't think of a really graceful and diplomatic introduction on the spur of the moment. Mr.
Conversation would have dragged pitifully if it had not been for Aunt Maria's efforts, for the visitors seemed smitten with dumbness, and beneath no the fire of their glances Darsie's embarrassment increased rather than diminished. She had no spirit left; a succession of monosyllables and an occasional "Oh, really!" made up the sum of her contributions to the conversation.
Well, here you have the great Physician himself, with his water, and he calls it the water of life, water of life for the soul: this water is probatum est. No disease comes amiss to it; it cures blindness, deadness, deafness, dumbness. It will beget in you a good appetite to that which is good; it will remove obstructions in the stomach and liver.
Is there anything you wish for? Do but ask, and command us," but we have never been able to draw a word from her. We cannot tell whether her sorrow proceeds from pride, sorrow, stupidity, or dumbness." The king was more astonished at hearing this than he had been before: however, believing the slave might have some cause of sorrow, he was willing to endeavour to divert and amuse her.
True, there was but one person to sting, for Miss Grey never said ill-natured things; but then she said ill-advised and mal-apropos things, and she had such an air of frightened dumbness, such a sad, deprecatory look, that she was sometimes quite as trying as Miss Gascoigne, who spoke out. And oh, how she did speak!
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