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The door was already closed, but between the curtains which his hands had drawn apart, Prince Maiyo was standing in the room which they had just quitted, and there was something in the calm impassivity of his white, stern face which seemed to madden her. She clenched her hands and looked away. "Really, I was not so much bored as I had feared," the Duchess remarked composedly.
I went forth on my customary walk a trifle daunted, her idol-like impassivity haunting me; and when I returned, although she was still in much the same posture, I was half surprised to see that she had moved as far as the next pillar, following the sunshine.
If the morning-room bell has rung just as this person comes, it will be the one I'm expecting. 'Yes, miss. With a splendid impassivity in the face of precautions so unprecedented, the servant withdrew. Vida smiled to herself as she leaned back among the cushions of her capacious sofa, cutting the pages of a book.
He is not likely to do violence, but he is likely to do impassivity and indifference to the point where they become worse than violence. There are certain of the more idle phases of civilization to which America has not yet awakened and it is a matter of no moment if she remains unaware. This matter of hats is one of them.
He was a match for any Indian in impassivity, and every nerve rested while he thus retained complete command over his body. He could see from his position the bushes beyond the opening, and, above them, a broad belt of black sky. He rejoiced again that they had found this cave or rather stone room as they called it.
I wish you to be perfect in this lesson, Audrey. Are you so?" "Yes," she sighed. Her hands had fallen; she was looking at him with slowly parting lips, and a strange expression in her eyes. He went on quietly as before, every feature controlled to impassivity and his arms lightly folded: "That is well. Between the day when I found you again and a night in the Palace yonder lies a summer, a summer!
Both he and Vassie felt guiltily on the subject, not realising that reaction from strain was at the bottom of their seeming impassivity. To be able to take definite action instead of having merely to put up with the thing day by day was, when it came, a blessing to both of them, although it took what might conventionally have been assumed to be such a terrible shape.
"Aren't they coming to town this season?" "Haven't heard," answered George. "Have a cigar?" Winlow took the cigar, and cutting it with a small penknife, scrutinised George's square face with his leisurely eyes. It needed a physiognomist to penetrate its impassivity. Winlow thought to himself: 'I shouldn't be surprised if what they say about old George is true.... "Had a good meeting so far?"
"No!" replied one of the chess-players. "Not one of us!" "Is he here?" demanded the Inspector. Then seeing that he was to be met by Oriental impassivity, he turned to the Pilmanseys. "What other rooms are there here?" he asked. "Two," answered the elder brother, pointing to the curtains at the rear of the room. "One there the other there. Behind those hangings two smaller rooms."
To the man who had been waiting for his sentence there was something terrible in the grim impassivity of Prince Falkenberg's features. His face was set and white and sphinx-like. Only his eyes shone with a fierce, unusual fire. "What have you to say, Estermen?" he demanded. "It was a miracle," Estermen faltered. "Sir Julien descended the stairs with the copy in his hand to speak to a caller.
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