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Updated: May 13, 2025
But slowly and inexorably the sense of his helplessness grew clear. "No, I must shut down," he thought. On his way home that evening, in a crush at a turbulent corner he saw a big truck jam into a taxi, and with a throb of rebellion he thought of his son-in-law who was dead. Just the turn of a hair and Bruce might have lived and been here to look after the children!
For as the first dazed numbness wore off, he began to see himself standing alone more alone than ever gazing into a bottomless pit, with Fate or Destiny or blind Chance, whatever witless force was at work, approaching inexorably to push him over the brink.
It has been doing so on the spot just named, I suppose, for the last five hundred years, and during that time the cost of eggs and earthen pots has been gradually but inexorably increasing. The buyers nevertheless wrestle over their purchases as lustily as so many fourteenth-century burghers suddenly waking up in horror to current prices.
And before ... the fact is ... I can't talk of her, except to those who knew her ... who understand...." "You mean is she not alive?" "No. The War killed her instead of killing me." Her hand closed on his with a mute assurance of sympathy. If they could only leave it so! But her people...? "You must try and talk of her to me, Roy," she urged, gently but inexorably. "Was it out here?" "No.
It was part of the nightmare-like atmosphere which seemed to brood inexorably over this particular night that this person looked to Jimmy exactly like the parlour-maid who had come to him in this room in answer to the bell and who had sent his father to him. Yet how could it be she?
The big ship was hopelessly astray in the fog and in the grip of a black, unseen current that dragged at her keel and bulging beam, pulling her inexorably landward towards the hidden rocks. Her commander felt danger lurking in the fog, but was at a loss to know on which side to look for it, at what point to guard against it.
"To be, or not to be," is the question which is put to us to-day, disguised, indeed, by the apparent equilibrium of the opposing interests and forces, by the deceitful shifts of diplomacy, and the official peace-aspirations of all the States; but by the logic of history inexorably demanding an answer, if we look with clear gaze beyond the narrow horizon of the day and the mere surface of things into the region of realities.
The boy listened to it, and began mechanically to count. Tick tick one, two, three, four! He lost count presently, and only listened. Tick tick tick tick! It never waited; it went on inexorably; and every time it ticked a man died! He raised himself a little on his elbow and listened. He wished it would leave off. How many times had it ticked since he came to lie down?
Slowly, but somehow inexorably, like the laws of life itself, and somewhere at a prodigious height above the earth, the three outer ends of the red and the green and the blue spread out and flared back upon themselves and one another, until their combined brilliance bridged a great rainbow across the sky.
Inexorably intent upon the easing of his conscience Kenny told the tale of his penance with terrifying honesty and truth. Brian listened and dared not smile. "At first I I hoped to find a clue," finished Kenny, wiping the sweat from his forehead. "And then after I I saw Joan I hoped I wouldn't. You're not blamin' me, Brian?" "Not a bit. I'd have lingered myself."
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