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Just such a look he had seen in the eyes of a favorite dog when he had performed an operation on it to save its life a reproachful, non-comprehending, loving gaze.
Just such a look he had seen in the eyes of a favourite dog when he had performed an operation on it to save its life a reproachful, non-comprehending, loving gaze.
Just such a look he had seen in the eyes of a favourite dog when he had performed an operation on it to save its life a reproachful, non-comprehending, loving gaze.
It is neither so pleasant nor so promising a place as it was in 1915. The soil of the black years is upon it. Sofia was a peasant city without much fashion or style then, and this aspect has intensified itself. The peasant is the born enemy of the town, and whilst he may be perfect in the country he is a boorish and non-comprehending fellow when he comes to the capital to rule.
One startled, non-comprehending look, and then the truth rushed on Bessie, and she threw on her dressing-gown and hurried to the sick-room. "Going home fast!" nay, she had gone; the last sigh was breathed as Bessie crossed the threshold "Thank God, she has not suffered!" murmured her father. Bessie heard him as she flung herself down beside Hatty.
He had noticed sometimes the way good women looked at their husbands when the latter were talking over their heads with the eager, intent, non-comprehending admiration of an affectionate dog. This was a look which he could not imagine himself discovering in his wife's eves. It was not conceivable to him that he should talk over her head.
It was dreadful to have to plead with these rich people these people who knew nothing whatever of her sore need to whom money was so plentiful as to have lost its freshness, its desirability, its charm. It was awful to look into their faces to see the blank, non-comprehending stare which came into Mrs. Harvey's pretty blue eyes, and to notice the puzzled expression on the Squire's face.
May I take it?" she said, looking at him appealingly. "It was a kind present from a dear lost friend, and and " She paused, seeing his puzzled and totally non-comprehending air. It was plainly the first moment it had dawned upon her that he did not know what she was talking about. She took a small, alarmed step toward him. "Oh, I BEG your pardon," she exclaimed in delicate anguish.
The knees trembled. "Back to that corner," Quest ordered, pointing. Slowly and dejectedly, the ape-man crept to where he had been ordered and sat there with dull, non-comprehending stare. It was a new force, this, a note of which he had felt the superman raising the voice of authority. Quest touched his forehead and found it damp. The strain of those few seconds had been intolerable.
Thus a few intervening years passed happily enough, briging Lorraine to her thirty-first birthday and Hal to her twenty-fifth, without any further upheavals to strike a discordant note across the daily round, except such inevitable trials as Lorraine continued to meet through her mother, and Hal through her devotion to a non-comprehending brother.
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