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Selim had said 5:30.... Well, it was exactly 5:25, so I had five minutes to spare." "Yes?" Dundee speeded him up impatiently. "Well, I came right into the hall, and hung my hat in the closet out there, and then came in here. It must have been about 5:27 by that time," he explained, with the meticulousness of a man on the witness stand. "I shouted, 'Hello, everybody!
It was, however, the door behind him which opened, and he gave a start of surprise and terror. He knew who it was. He did not turn round, but his head bent forward, as though he would take a blow from behind, and his eyes almost closed. Stafford saw with a curious meticulousness the long eyelashes touch the grey cheek. "There's no fight in him now," he said to Byng in French.
"And he looks like a German," said Mr. Britling. "He certainly does that," said Mr. Direck. "He has the fair type of complexion, the rather full habit of body, the temperamental disposition, but in addition that close-cropped head, it is almost as if it were shaved, the plumpness, the glasses those are things that are made. And the way he carries himself. And the way he thinks. His meticulousness.
Sophia got the smallest tea-pot, and, as the tea-leaves had been left in it, she washed out the teapot also, with exaggerated noise and meticulousness. Sophia got the sugar and the other trifles, and Sophia blew up the fire with the bellows. And Amy did nothing in particular except encourage Spot to drink. "Is that all the milk you give to Fossette?"
And the meticulousness, the perfection of these smoothed cliffs struck over my nerves as no rasp could, stirring a vague resentment, an irritated desire for human inharmonies, human disorder. Absorbed in my examination I had forgotten those who must share with me my doubts and dangers. I felt a grip on my arm.
Cromwell became explicit about her likes and dislikes, her head, her stomach, her teeth, her apartment avoiding with a sort of insolent meticulousness any inclusion of Roxanne with life, as if presuming that Roxanne, having been dealt a blow, wished life to be carefully skirted. Roxanne smiled. That kimono! That neck!
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