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Ralston had pondered the question with an uncomfortable vision before his eyes, evoked by certain words of Colonel Dewes a youth appealing for help, for the only help which could be of service to him, and then, as the appeal was rejected, composing his face to a complete and stolid inexpressiveness, no longer showing either his pain or his desire reverting, as it were, from the European to the Oriental.
"I'm glad you never had any taste for the fellow; and I should have been quite as well pleased if I hadn't found you caring for the other." Randolph took refuge in a bland inexpressiveness. There was no need to school his face: he had only to discipline his voice. "Oh, well," he said smoothly, "it's only a passing amitie something soon to be over, perhaps."
"I am a priest," replied the young man, his face resuming its former calm inexpressiveness. "Then, holy father," said Raoul, letting his pistol fall back into the holster, and giving a tone of respect to his words, "since you are a priest, you have now an opportunity of exercising your sacred functions.
But although Christina's deportment, as I have said, was one of superb inexpressiveness, Rowland had derived from Roderick no suspicion that he suffered from snubbing, and he was therefore surprised at an incident which befell one evening at a large musical party.
The clash roused the old crone in the corner. She recognized the situation instantly, and the features that sleep had relaxed into inexpressiveness took on a weary apprehension, which they wore like a habit. The man barely raised his surly black eyes, but his wife drew back humbly with a mutter of apology. The next moment the shovel was almost thrust out of his grasp.
The fine grays were akin to pearl color, to lavender, even, in approaching the zenith, to the palest of blue so pale that the white glitter of a star alternately appeared and was lost again in its tranquil inexpressiveness. The river seemed suddenly awake; its voice was lifted loud upon the evening air, a rhythmic song without words. The frogs chanted by the waterside.
She stood aghast at her own inadequacy, her stony inexpressiveness.... And suddenly she lifted her hands to her throbbing forehead and cried out: "But this is love! This must be love!" She had loved him before, she supposed; for what else was she to call the impulse that had drawn her to him, taught her how to overcome his scruples, and whirled him away with her on their mad adventure?
He forgot about those Pomeranian parents altogether in his exasperation at his own inexpressiveness, at his incomplete control of these rebel words and phrases that came trailing each its own associations and suggestions to hamper his purpose with it. He read over the offending sentence. "The point is that it is true," he whispered. "It is exactly what I want to say."... Exactly?...
Nor are they "music of the past." They belong rather more to the sort of music that has no more relation with yesteryear than it has with this or next. They belong to the sort that never has youth and vigor, is old the moment it is produced. Their essential inexpressiveness makes almost virtueless the characteristics which Schoenberg has carried into them from out his fecund period.
Newman had already learned that her strange inexpressiveness could be a vehicle for emotion, and he was not surprised at the muffled vivacity with which she whispered, "I thought you would try again, sir. I was looking out for you." "I am glad to see you," said Newman; "I think you are my friend." Mrs. Bread looked at him opaquely. "I wish you well sir; but it's vain wishing now."
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