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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Oh, Gilbert, for a man who was so fine !" she exclaimed in a long murmur. "I was never so fine as you. You've done everything you wanted. You've got him out of the say without appearing to do so, and you've placed me in the position in which you wished to see me that of a man who has tried to marry his daughter to a lord, but has grotesquely failed." "Pansy doesn't care for him.
The head had fallen back, and was partly hidden in a gopher burrow, but the white, upturned face and closed eyes had less of helpless death in them than those wretched enwrappings. Indeed, one limp hand that lay across the swollen abdomen lent itself to the grotesquely hideous suggestion of a gentleman sleeping off the excesses of a hearty dinner.
Of the one there was only the memory of an unmodulated voice and oppressive perfume; in truth, of the other there was not much more just a pair of big, blue-gray, honest eyes, that somehow stared at him fearlessly, and withal with a great sweetness. Crane suddenly chuckled in dry disapprobation of himself. Grotesquely enough, all at once he remembered that he was forty that very day forty.
In the middle, upon a small dancing floor, rudely octagonal in shape, made smaller by tables crowded round its edge to accommodate the crush, a mob of couples danced arduously, close-locked in one another's arms, swaying in rhythm with the over-emphasized time beaten out by a perspiring little band of musicians on a dais in a far corner, their activities directed by an antic conductor whose lantern-jawed, sallow face peered grotesquely out through a mop of hair as black and coarse and lush as a horse's mane.
Larry regarded him with a stranger and more contradicting mixture of feelings than he had ever thought to contain: solicitude for Dick jealousy of him and the instinct to protect Maggie. This last seemed to Larry grotesquely absurd the instant it seethed up in him, but there the instinct was: was Dick treating Maggie right? "How was the show last night, Dick?" "Punk!"
And laid her other hand in his a gesture of utter trust so exquisite that, for a moment, tears blinded him, and all the forest wavered grotesquely before his desperately fixed gaze. And presently, within the field of his vision, something moved a man going westward among the trees his rifle slung over his shoulder.
"Good-by, Sarah!" It was indeed good-by forever. For on my way to my room I came suddenly upon the Prince, in a recess of the upper hall, addressing somebody through an open door with a querulous protest, whose wild extravagance of statement was grotesquely balanced by its utter feeble timidity of manner. "It is," said the Prince, "indeed a grave affair.
But he was quite cheerful; in fact, he seemed in quite high spirits, and in the intervals of struggling with his food contrived to talk a little in his quaint, rather grotesquely humorous fashion.
His muscles tensed as her arm came up and down a shadow almost invisible in the starlight. The leaning figure of Douglas collapsed like a puppet whose strings had been suddenly released. The torch dropped from his hand and went bouncing and winking down the wall of the pit, followed by Douglas a limp bundle of arms and legs that rotated grotesquely as he disappeared down the slope.
The term, grotesquely enough, meant nothing to the creature who called himself John Dennis. In the strange pattern of his consciousness there were no patterns of definitive difference. Though in many respects more able than the humans against whom he was pitted, he was no more aware of himself as different than a dog is aware of its differences from a man.
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