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Updated: May 24, 2025
All we ask o' yew is jest ernough tew allow us ter advertise fer another brother member ter take yer place." Who could describe the expression that flashed across Abe's face? hurt astonishment, wounded pride, jealous incomprehension. "Ter take my place!" he glanced about the hall defiantly. Who dared to enter there and take his place? his place! "This is a old ladies' home," he protested.
Their mental processes are largely the same. He thinks with the same thought-symbols as does the Chinese, and he thinks in the same peculiar grooves. He goes on where we are balked by the obstacles of incomprehension. He takes the turning which we cannot perceive, twists around the obstacle, and, presto! is out of sight in the ramifications of the Chinese mind where we cannot follow.
Another slight shrug of incomprehension of absolution from such practices and Titine moved to the linen cabinet and took out some fluffy things of lace and ribbon, then to a closet from which she brought a soft room-gown, a pair of silk stockings and some very small suede slippers.
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.
Why had she pretended not to like Zavier? Why? Why? Susan found her thoughts trailing off into a perspective of questions that brought up against a wall of incomprehension above which Lucy's clear eyes looked at her with baffling secretiveness. It was a warm morning, and the two girls sat in the doctor's wagon. Lucy was knitting one of the everlasting stockings.
"A man like any man, like all men," she said with a calm incomprehension; but when she found out who her visitor had been, she suddenly burst into tears, without herself knowing why.
"So deska?" she said politely, then repeated his words in puzzled incomprehension: "Nowarms? Nowarms?" When she returned to the soldier she gathered up the flowers which she had dropped by the wayside, and timidly offered them to him. For a long moment she waited, then her smile faded mid her hand dropped.
When, in my sitting-room this morning, I asked her the girl's name she said she did not know it, did not know where she lived, or what had happened to her, and at my look of incomprehension at her seeming disregard, she had turned away and busied herself in dusting the books on the well-filled table. "She was pretty nervous." Mrs. Mundy's usually cheerful voice was troubled.
"No, I'm not a mother, Maggie, and I never shall be." Maggie looked at her in absolute incomprehension. "I thought you was cryin' for me, an' Jim, an' all our prisent troubles, but I belave yer cryin' for " Mrs. McCann stopped short; she was still staring at Aileen who suddenly lifted her brimming eyes to hers. What Mrs.
"I must be cautious, cautious," he remembered, and made a strenuous "act of will" to steady himself. "Oh, she never discovered that," he said. "What!" exclaimed the Duchessa. Her face fell. Her eyes darkened with dismay, with incomprehension. "Do you you don't mean to say that he didn't tell her?" There was reluctance to believe, there was a conditional implication of deep reproach, in her voice.
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