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A few more mouthfuls and with his small, icy, mirthless laugh, he added: "I've got one something like her at home. I keep her there." Culver decided to spend the night at the hotel. He hung round the hotel office until two in the morning, expecting and dreading Dumont's reply to his telegram. But nothing came either for him or for Merriweather.
"I'm not so old," he rejoined sluggishly "only thirty-four." She could not suppress her astonishment. She looked at the hair already grey, the hard, pinched face, the lustreless eyes. "Yet it must seem long to you," she said with meaning. Now he laughed a laugh sodden and mirthless. He was thinking of his boyhood.
By the mere urgency of his proffering it the exchange was made, and Conroy found himself with a knife in his hand that fell through the strands of the manila line as though they had been butter, an instrument made and perfected for a murder. "Yes, but look here " he began, in alarm. The broad, mirthless smile was turned on him.
"But you shot him down!" "He attacked me; it was self-defense." She broke into a low-pitched, mirthless laughter. Where was the filmy-eyed girl he had known? The laughter broke off short like a sob. "Don't you suppose I've known?" she said. "That I've read my father? That I knew he was sending a bloodhound when he sent you? But, oh, I thought you had a touch of the other thing!"
Will strongest can not wake a song! It is no use to strive or long To sing with them that have a song, And mirthless laugh with mirth! Though sad, he must confront the wrong, And for the right face any throng, Waiting, with patience sweet and strong, Until God's glory fills the earth; Then shall he sing who had no song, He laugh who had no mirth!
He burst again into a sudden, mirthless laugh and once again swept his hand across his eyes. "We're going to beat it out of here now to-night to-morrow morning." But now she had drawn further away from him and there was a frightened look in her eyes, and her lips quivered pitifully. "No I can't I can't," she cried out. "No, no I can't I can't go back to that." "That! That is love," he said wildly.
"I wonder why you were more fortunate than I, Rosa," she said, after a pause, "for in my heart I was always a better woman." Mrs. Payne laughed her hard little mirthless laugh, and stretched out her withered hand with a melodramatic gesture.
That precise, mirthless laughter rang in Prince Andrew's ears long after he had left the house. When he reached home Prince Andrew began thinking of his life in Petersburg during those last four months as if it were something new.
Grim, Rogers, Wilson, Poulett, etc., were, on their side, rather sore at Jack's continual desertion of them and their causes. They had just seen him pedalling easily after Acton, throwing them a rather mirthless joke as he ran past, and they had, naturally, held a council to consider matters. "Wherever can the beggar get to is what I want to know," said Wilson.
He stood back from her, his hand falling from her arm as if it had grown nerveless, and for a moment there was absolute silence. Then the Beggar Man laughed, such a mirthless, heart-broken laugh that Faith cried out. She dropped the little suitcase she carried and ran to him. "Nicholas ... Nicholas ... Oh, don't look at me like that!"
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