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Updated: May 29, 2025
There fell a silence between them, and a hot draught eddied up through the parched compound and rattled the scorched twigs of the creeping rose on the verandah with a desolate sound, as if skeleton hands were feeling along the trellis-work. Tommy suppressed a shudder and got to his feet. In the same moment Monck spoke again, deliberately, emotionlessly, with a hint of grimness.
"The two men and the five women indicated have been taken to the hospital," was the report of the man. "Very well, dispose of the others in the usual fashion." The minion went out, and Roger continued, emotionlessly: "Collectively, the other passengers may be worth a million or so, but it would not be worth while to waste time upon them."
Now Blood had no cause to love Spaniards. His two years in a Spanish prison and his subsequent campaigning in the Spanish Netherlands had shown him a side of the Spanish character which he had found anything but admirable. Nevertheless he performed his doctor's duties zealously and painstakingly, if emotionlessly, and even with a certain superficial friendliness towards each of his patients.
"You knew I would come, but you didn't know why, did you, Bedelia?" He leaned a little closer. "Yes, I knew why," she said calmly, emotionlessly. He drew back instantly, chilled by her directness. "You came because there was promise of an interesting adventure, which you now are on the point of making impossible by a rather rash exhibition of haste."
Ruiz Rios's eyes glittered, his mouth hardened. He closed the door behind him, watching them keenly. "It is in my mind to do you a kindness, Señor Kendric," he said, speaking evenly and emotionlessly. "You are a murderous cur," rapped out Kendric. "I'd do a clean job if I shot you dead in your tracks." Rios smiled. "Let us speak business, amigo," he said.
It softened the blow of his having been a laundryman, and though she could not understand a line of it, she knew that every line of it was great. She was a simple, practical, hard-working woman, but she possessed faith in large endowment. Just as emotionlessly as he had received "The Shame of the Sun" did he read the reviews of it that came in weekly from the clipping bureau.
"They are not mine," Mayer admitted. "They are the products of many minds." "But where ?" The Earthman shook his head. "I don't believe I will tell you now." "I see." The Genoese eyed him emotionlessly. "Then the question becomes, why?" Mayer said, "It may be difficult for you to see, but the introduction of each of these will be a nail in feudalism's coffin.
"Yes," said Clementina, "I thought you would think so." They parted emotionlessly to all outward effect, and when they met again it was without a sign of having passed through a crisis of sentiment.
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