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"You must abandon, and, if I may say so, forget, the particle 'non', which you use frequently at random. 'Non' is not a French word; instead of that unpleasant monosyllable, say, 'Pardon'. 'Non' is equal to giving the lie: never say it, or prepare yourself to give and to receive sword-stabs every moment."
Victoria, gazing at the scene, drew a deep breath, and turned and looked at him in the quick way which he remembered so well. "Sometimes," she said, "it is so beautiful that it hurts to look at it. You love it do you ever feel that way?" "Yes," he said, but his answer was more than the monosyllable. "I can see that mountain from my window, and it seriously interferes with my work.
Whatever her thoughts might have been, the short glances of her lustrous eyes gave no clue to them, and her tongue was silent, save when she replied by some brief monosyllable to a remark or query put in the Indian language occasionally by Pedro.
"I was prevented," Rachel replied coldly. "Well?" And the monosyllable was a whisper. "He is still alive," said the woman at the door. "Is that all?" asked Rachel, a catch in her voice. "It is all I'll say till the doctor has been." "But he has got through the night," sighed Rachel, thankfully. "I could see the light in his room from hour to hour, even though I could not come.
And then Sylvia was explicit about it, as something every one was hoping for." "Was that why you went away?" she asked with an intent look into his face. "Because he had a prior claim, and it wouldn't be fair to poach upon his preserves?" He gave an ironic monosyllable laugh. "I tried, for the next few days to bamboozle myself into adopting that explanation but I couldn't.
"And there is no compromise?" "None," he answered. And she smiled suddenly at the monosyllable reply. She had had to deal with men of no compromise more than the majority of villa-dwelling women have the opportunity of doing, and she knew, perhaps, that such are the backbone of human nature. "Ah!" she said, with a quick sigh, as she turned and looked down the length of the long, lamp-lit room.
Yes, I said to myself, gone, its record made up to be opened in eternity. I stood still, staring vaguely at the dial as in a trance. And as the next hour creeps stealthily up, it starts all at once, and cries aloud, Gone! Gone! The sun sinks lower, the hour-hand creeps downward with it, until I hear the thrice-repeated monosyllable, Gone! Gone! Gone!
"Yes?" a pleasant voice questioned, but giving an accent to the monosyllable that made Dan think instantly of France. He found himself facing a charming woman, her bright blue eyes looking into his with a smile that instantly attracted him. She was well-dressed, with a different air from the women he knew.
Once closeted together in the private room at Halfpenny and Farthing's office, Mr. Halfpenny, who had seemed somewhat mystified by the happenings at the bank, looked inquiringly at Professor Cox-Raythwaite and snapped out one suggestive monosyllable: "Well?" "Very well indeed," answered Cox-Raythwaite. "I consider we have done good work. We have found things out.
"God!" The monosyllable was the Prince's. And with clear sight of the many things reprobated Images, Saints, the Canonized, even the worship of Christ and the Holy Mother with clear sight also of the wisdom which in that presence bade the guest stop with the mighty name at the same time more curious than ever to hear in full discourse the man who could reduce religion to a single word and leave it comprehensible, Constantine drew a breath of relief, and said, smiling, "Of a surety, O Prince, there was never a Faith which, with such appearance of simplicity in definition, is capable of such infinity of meaning.
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