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He was taking French and English and "composition-writing" in addition to engineering, and he made out a schedule of life as humorlessly as a girl grind who intends to be a Latin teacher. When he was not at work, or furiously running and yanking chest-weights in the gymnasium, he was attending concerts, lectures.
"Perhaps because it is the only emotion that comes without effort." "So you would fall in love with me to forget that I bore you." "A broader ambition than that. To forget that living bores me, Mathilde." "There is someone else you love, Mr. Dorn." "There was." He smiled humorlessly. "Do you mind if I talk of love? I need a conversational antidote."
For instance, do you know why the testator disinherited you?" "Why yes," began Anthony. "You see he was always a sucker for moral reform, and all that " "I know," interjected Mr. Haight humorlessly. " and I don't suppose he ever thought I was much good. I didn't go into business, you see. But I feel certain that up to last summer I was one of the beneficiaries.
Snookums is trying to figure that one out now; if he ever does, he's going to be a thought policeman, and a strict one." "You mean he's working on telepathy?" She laughed humorlessly. "No. But he's trying to dope out a system whereby he can tell what a man is going to do a few seconds before he does it muscular and nervous preparation, that sort of thing.
"You didn't help any." "Why should we? Does one treat a shrake like a brother? or a varl? or a dog? We treat them like the animals they are. And we've done no worse with the Lani. Our consciences are clear." Kennon laughed humorlessly. "Yet this clear conscience makes you want to kill me, so you can keep on treating them as animals even though you know they're human." "I know nothing of the sort.
"Well, they certainly need Now where the devil is that gray suit? Oh, yes, here we are." He was able to get through the other crises of dressing with comparative resoluteness and calm. His first adornment was the sleeveless dimity B.V.D. undershirt, in which he resembled a small boy humorlessly wearing a cheesecloth tabard at a civic pageant.
A revolution alone could rival him in my affections." The girl remained silent, and Dorn watched her face. He might embrace her and make love. It would perhaps flatter, please her. She fancied him a man of astounding genius. She had practically memorized his book. Thus, one had only to smile humorlessly, permit one's eyes to grow enigmatic, and think of a proper epigram.
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