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But then your letters were so sweet and loving, and I cared such a lot " His voice broke. He had been talking on a carefully emotionless dead level, but now he suddenly stopped as if he had come to the end of his control. But he was only silent a moment, and went on: "I cared so much that I thought you must. That's a queer thing, isn't it?
He reflected with satisfaction that she was on a friendlier footing with him than with any other man of her acquaintance, that she had a more instant welcome for him than for any other, and for which cause he was cordially hated by several otherwise amiable gentlemen. And then he waxed gloomy, remembering how emotionless, how impersonal, that friendship really was.
The droning voice came up from below, each well-chosen word distinct and clear: tribute beautiful to the irreproachable character of the deceased. Leslie watched the face of the girl, curiously fascinated by the set, emotionless features, and yet without a conscious interest in her. He was dully sensible to the fact that she was beautiful, uncommonly beautiful.
He kept his voice emotionless, recounting facts, leaving out anything that might be considered an opinion. It was six minutes before midnight when he finished. He thumbed the switch to receive and waited. There was only silence. Slowly, the empty quality of the silence penetrated his numbed mind. There were no crackling atmospherics nor hiss of static, even when he turned the power full on.
Beautiful but selfish, she allows herself to be courted by novices, but presents a freezing, emotionless aspect to those who have outlived their illusions. Reine did not reach home until the day had begun to wane. La Guite informed her that Claudet had waited for her during part of the afternoon, and that he would come again the next day at nine o'clock.
His grey eyes were essentially honest, but they were deliberately emotionless at that moment. In the hubbub of voices all about them he bent and spoke. "It may not be the fate you would have chosen; but since submit we must, shall we not make the best of it?" She met his look with the aloofness of utter disdain. "Your strategy was somewhat too apparent to be ascribed to Fate," she said.
On the other hand, when there is too little or no thyroid gland, the individual becomes dull, stupid, and emotionless, though he may be irritable; while if a sufficient amount of thyroid extract be given to such a patient he may be brought back to his normal condition.
It was a bauble cold, emotionless, easily forgotten; but the other the picture of the woman who had almost destroyed him was a deadly menace, a poison to David's soul and body as long as it remained in his possession, and the Little Missioner's fingers itched to tear it from the velvet casket and destroy it. He watched his opportunity.
MacNair nodded, but, by the look in his eye, Chloe knew that he did not understand and that pride and a certain natural reserve sealed his lips from further questioning. "It is far to the Mackenzie," ventured the girl. "Aye, far. After my father died I brought her here." "You! Brought her here!" she exclaimed, staring in surprise into the strong emotionless face. The man nodded slowly.
'You may be sure she is a constant friend, Lady Dunstane said for his comfort; and she reminded herself subsequently of a shade of disappointment at his imperturbable rejoinder: 'I could calculate on it. For though not at all desiring to witness the sentimental fit, she wished to see that he held an image of Diana: surely a woman to kindle poets and heroes, the princes of the race; and it was a curious perversity that the two men she had moved were merely excellent, emotionless, ordinary men, with heads for business.
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