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But you can't explain, for you can't understand." Sutch was moved to lay his hand upon Harry's shoulder. "Can you?" he asked, and regretted the question almost before it was spoken. But it was spoken, and Harry's eyes turned swiftly toward Sutch, and rested upon his face, not, however, with any betrayal of guilt, but quietly, inscrutably.
Mornway has been kind to my wife, and I'd like to help her." The Governor rose, gripping his chair-back sternly. "You will be kind enough to leave my wife's name out of the discussion. I supposed you knew me well enough to know that I don't buy newspaper secrets at any price, least of all at that of the public money!" Gregg, who had risen also, stood a few feet off, looking at him inscrutably.
He saw the perfect good-humoured callousness, even strange, glistening malice, in Gerald, glistening through the plausible ethics of productivity. 'Gerald, he said, 'I rather hate you. 'I know you do, said Gerald. 'Why do you? Birkin mused inscrutably for some minutes. 'I should like to know if you are conscious of hating me, he said at last.
With terror written on her face, she turned from him to meet the flushed countenance of Charlot, who, with arms akimbo and his head on one side, was regarding her at once with mockery and satisfaction. "What do you intend by us, Monsieur?" she questioned in a choking voice. He smiled inscrutably. "Allay your fears, Citoyenne; you will find me very gentle."
She omitted much that has been told in this chronicle. But she disclosed the essential fact, that Napoleonic Mr. Scobell had tried to force her into a marriage with a man she did not she hesitated at the word did not respect, she concluded. Mrs. Oakley regarded her inscrutably for a while before replying. "Respect!" she said at last. "I have never met a man in my life whom I could respect.
"Of such a religion as yours, most certainly," interrupted Julian, with haughty vehemence. "The natural man, you see " He stopped as he saw Julian's hand fidgeting towards the water-bottle. "Ah! well, you will have still to sit at the sizars' table, and dine on the Fellows' leavings; perhaps it might inscrutably be good for you to bear the yoke " Had the fellow come to insult him?
Since the first wagon train had worried over the rough deserts on their way to California, the bleak hills of Nevada had listened while prospectors dreamed aloud and cackled over their dreaming; had listened, too, while they raved in thirst and heat and madness. Inscrutably they watched Casey as he hurried by with his twenty-five thousand dollars and his pleasant pictures of soft ease.
He rather looked upon it as one of those beautiful dispensations which are inscrutably brought about for the behoof and advantage of good men. He felt, as it were, personally referred to, in this prosperous ripening for the gibbet; and had never considered himself so much the pet and favourite child of Destiny, or loved that lady so well or with such a calm and virtuous reliance, in all his life.
She was there, punctual to a minute, to answer for herself. The last-left faint defenses in Isaac's heart against the fascination which a word or look from her began inscrutably to exercise over him sank down and vanished before her forever on that memorable morning.
It might have seemed that since the girl's performance was a dazzling success he regarded his evening as rather a failure. After the third act Nick said candidly: "My dear fellow, how can you sit here? Aren't you going to speak to her?" To which Peter replied inscrutably: "Lord, no, never again. I bade her good-bye yesterday. She knows what I think of her form.
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