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In the corner of the room Mrs Macalister sat meekly knitting, never venturing a look upwards so long as her spouse was in view, but urging Margot onward by nods and winks and noiseless mouthings, the moment that she was safe from observation. It had its comic side, but it was also somewhat pathetic.
To the Olema he exclaimed, in suave tones: "Dakhilak, Ya Shayk! The Olema only smiled oddly, in the dim and perfumed obscurity of the passageway, along which the slither of the many sandaled feet on the gold pavement made a soft, creeping sound. Nothing more was said except for some grumbled mouthings of Bohannan during the next few minutes.
"Nothing; I was just muttering. I've a villainous habit of muttering mushy nothings " "You did say something!" "No; only ghoulish gabble; the mere murky mouthings of a meagre mind." "You did. It's rude not to repeat it when I ask you." "I didn't mean to be rude." "Then repeat what you said to yourself."
So poor Byron, with his fire and emotion to say nothing of his mouthings and coxcombry was dethroned, as I prophesied he would be more than twenty years before, on the day of his funeral, though I had little idea that his humiliation would have been brought about by one, whose sole strength consists in setting people to sleep. Well, all things are doomed to terminate in sleep.
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