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Thomas sighed and shook her head with that exasperated incomprehension which all women displayed when the subject of Mrs. Nitschkan's children came up for discussion. Educators discourse much upon the proper environment and training of the young of the human species, but theories aside, practical results seem rather in favor of casting the bantling on the rocks. For, in spite of Mrs.
Marie blood, though. Who'd have thought it?" The man shook his head a little sorrowfully, but Ste. Marie stared up at him in frowning incomprehension. The pain had dulled him somewhat. And presently O'Hara again moved toward the door. On the way he said: "I'll bring or send you something to eat not too much. And later on I'll give you a sleeping-powder.
For she swayed perilously as she made her way down toward the men. "What is it?" demanded Milo, excitedly. "What's happened?" Claire struggled visibly to regain her composure. Then, speaking with forced calmness, she said: "I've just seen a ghost! Rodney Hade's ghost!" The two looked at her in dumb incomprehension.
Simonds shouted jubilation and began to jump about in the most extraordinary fashion. Wallace sat down heavily on the floor, held his lamp out over one of the pits and stared with blank incomprehension. As for the major, he dropped to his knees, threw down his weapons and plunged his arms up to the elbows in the sliding sparkle of the gems.
Now, if they fought for women, or ideas, or bars of gold, or fabulous diamonds, it would be splendid. But no; they are only hungry, and fight over scraps for their stomach." "Oh, if I could only understand!" Saxon murmured, her hands tightly clasped in anguish of incomprehension and vital need to know. "There is nothing to understand. It is clear as print.
They were rewarded presently by a faint flicker of the eyelids and a slow flow of color in the pale cheeks. Then after a little the eyes opened. In an instant Ferguson's lips were close to Rope's ear. "Who shot you, Rope, old man?" he asked eagerly. "You don't need to be afraid to tell me, it's Ferguson." The wounded man's eyes were glazed with a dull incomprehension.
Accustomed always to appeal from convention to instinct and from reason to sentiment, they are, in the face of certain laws, be they those of justice or of honor, in a state of incomprehension worse than ignorance. A duel, for example, appears to them like an arbitrary drama, which the wish of one of those concerned can change at his fancy.
"I guess you're tired." "No, I ain't. It's not that. But it all happened so suddenly, and the boat was so crowded I thought everybody'd hear what he was saying. Ann Eliza," she broke out, "why on earth don't you ask me what I'm talking about?" Ann Eliza, with a last effort of heroism, feigned a fond incomprehension. "What ARE you?" "Why, I'm engaged to be married so there! Now it's out!
"Why on earth should you impose such a condition?" He frowned his incomprehension. "Because you have asked me to be your wife," she answered. He shook his head, mournfully, scornfully. "If ever an explanation darkened counsel!" mournfully he jeered. "You have asked me to be your wife. I reply that first you must make a journey to Sampaolo. Is that not simple?" said Susanna.
A wave of returning reason swept me like a sluicing from a bucket of ice-water, and I came to my feet sane and unspeakably mortified. She was still sitting very silent and her flushed color had at once died to pallor. Her eyes were wide with mystified incomprehension. Her lips moved, but shaped no words. I tried to speak, but the sense of my outrageous conduct stifled me.
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