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I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality.
I remembered my promise of eternal silence, made to her father before our marriage. A cold muteness fell upon us both when I shook my head and did not answer her; it was the first time that the barrier of secrecy had arisen between us. The air of the room seemed cold as we sat there, though the sun shone brilliantly without.
For the kerb uproar "the uncommunicating muteness of fishes" was the only panacea. The Bronx Zoo is not, I think, except in the matter of buffalo and deer paddocks, so good as ours in London, but it has this shining advantage it is free. So also is the Aquarium in Battery Park, and it was pleasing to see how crowded the place can be.
Although Naomi, in her darkness and muteness since the coming of her gift of hearing, had learned to know and understand the different tongues of men, yet now that she tried to call forth words for herself, and to put out her own voice in the use of them, she was no more than a child untaught in the ways of speech.
One felt her, was repulsed or possessed by her, even in her muteness. "I don't see how any one who has ever dreamed dreams," she said at last, "could fall in love and marry it is so different so different." "So you have refused Mr. Wilberforce? Well, well, he has reached the age when a poor lover may make an excellent friend and besides, to become Rosa's mouthpiece for a moment, he is very rich."
Overhead a hawk dipped in its reeling flight. Cartwell watched the girl keenly. Her pale face was very lovely in the brilliant morning light, though the somberness of her wide, gray eyes was deepened. That same muteness and patience in her trouble which so touched other men touched Cartwell, but he only said: "There never was anything bigger and finer than this open desert, was there?"
'Of course it does, she replied sharply. 'Mr Carter will tell his wife, and how pleasant that is? 'I never thought of that. And perhaps it wouldn't have seemed to me so annoying as it does to you. 'Very likely not. She turned abruptly away, and stood at a distance in gloomy muteness. 'Well, she said at length, 'there's no helping it now. Come and have your dinner.
She began to think her muteness lost her the bloom of the enchantment, robbing her of her heavenly frolic lead, since friend Matey resolved to be as eminently good in salt water as on land. Was he unaware that they were boy and girl again? she washed pure of the intervening years, new born, by blessing of the sea; worthy of him here! that is, a swimmer worthy of him, his comrade in salt water.
The drama, he could inform her, was only too naked down there for disappearances to be common. 'Will it be published that she is missing? 'She has her maid with her, a stout-hearted girl. Both have courage. I don't think we need take measures just yet. 'Not before it is public property? Henrietta could have bitten her tongue for laying her open to the censure implied in his muteness.
"You could ax the priest about it," Tim O'Meara said diffidently, out of the melancholy muteness which it was his habit to maintain. "That's as much as to say it should go for Masses," said old Felix, clutching at any shred of definite opinion, "for it's on'y in the nathur of things his Riverence 'ud be recommindin' thim."
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