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Later on he remarked: "Perhaps you think it strange that one in the very shadow of the death chair" the word stuck in his throat- "can talk so impersonally of his own case. Sometimes I think it is not my case, but some one else's. And then that door." He shuddered and turned away from it. On one side was life, such as it was; on the other, instant death. No wonder he pleaded with Kennedy.
She took the kerchief from her neck, and tied it about the hurt, then pulled down the sleeve and buttoned it over the brown forearm. All this she did quite impersonally, her face free of the least sympathy. "Thank you, ma'am. You're a right friendly enemy." "It isn't a matter of friendship at all. One couldn't leave a wounded jack rabbit in pain," she retorted coldly, taking up the trail again.
As you see, the marks of the Brute's hands are still too fresh upon me to regard him impersonally an obstacle, as it were. To me he is a brute! A fiend! A demon! I hate him!" Lapierre shook a clenched fist toward the North, and the words fairly snarled between his lips. With an effort he controlled himself.
"I mean, for you and me to try to understand each other." "For us?" asked Plank, raising his blond eyebrows. "Do you mean Amalgamated Electric and Inter-County, impersonally?" "I mean for us, personally." "There is no way," said Plank, with conviction. "I think there is." "You are wasting time thinking it, Mr. Quarrier."
The scout had fought the Apaches impersonally, without rancor, because a call had come to him that he could not ignore. But now the lust of blood was on him. He had become that cold, implacable thing known throughout the West as a "killer." The merciless caution that dictates the methods of a killer animated his movements now.
'You say that as if you didn't like them: I hope you don't, said Raymond, still with intentions in regard to his hostess. 'We like them more and more, the more we see of them, this lady interposed; but gently, impersonally, and with an air of not wishing to put Raymond in the wrong.
The carpenter, working on a plank laid on deck, heard him coming, glanced up, and seeing who it was, continued at his labor without moving so much as a hair's breadth to let him by; the steward looked him in the eye brazenly and impersonally; and others of the crew, among them the strange Blodgett, treated him with a certain subtle rudeness, even contempt.
Because it was impossible, he was determined to preserve her angelic purity in imagination, and to restore her womanly charm to actual being. "How can you receive me so coldly," he said impulsively, "when I've not seen you for weeks?" "You see me at church," she answered impersonally. "But I have been dying to be near you, to talk to you " "Stop!" she held up her hand. "You should know that Mr.
Why should a woman be so different? Her child would be healthier and she able to bring it into the world with less discomfort to herself if she went about her ordinary duties in her usual way. Thus Martin, impersonally, logically. "That would be true," Rose agreed, "if the work weren't so heavy and if I were younger." "It's the work you're used to doing all the time, isn't it?
When one has frequently listened to a favorite pianist in the concert room, and has studied impersonally, so to speak, the effects of touch, tone and interpretation produced during a recital, it is a satisfaction and delight to come into personal touch with the artist in the inner circle of the home; to be able to speak face to face with one who has charmed thousands from the platform, and to discuss freely the points which impress one when listening to a public performance.
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