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Utterly oblivious of the turning of the tables, wrapped, as by a shroud, in that dire silence, Ivan was walking walking out into Moscow, through the frozen streets, under the leaden sky, the terrible anger and rebellion in him fading slowly to a numbing stillness a stillness as of death. Was it really by accident that, on his homeward way, he passed the post-office to which his letters went?
Who had uncovered him in that unceremonious way, leaving him perished with cold? No wonder he had dreamt of that chilly wind, numbing his body as he stood naked by the pool. Had he by any chance kicked the coverlet off in his sleep, as he engaged in that dream-struggle with the absurdly impossible Buskin-Lubin who had attempted to pitch him into the dark water?
With infinite labor, Drew turned his head. He felt the rasp of grit on the skin of his burned cheek, and that small pain became a part of the larger. He opened his eyes, setting his teeth against a wave of nausea, and tried to understand what had happened to him. Water washed over his legs and boots, numbing him to the waist.
The mental suffering that Tarzan's sorrowful thoughts induced had the effect of numbing his keen, perceptive faculties, so that the advancing savages were almost upon him before he became aware that he was no longer alone upon the beach.
"Jessamine!" she whispered to him. "Jessamine! Doc'll never suspicion you, Lin." "Talk sense," said he. "It's sense I'm talking. Leave me go to sleep. Ah, ah, I'm going! I'll go; you can't " "Walk, walk!" he repeated. He looked at the door. An ache was numbing his arms. "Oh yes, walk! What can you and all your muscle Ah, walk me to glory, then, craziness! I'm going; I'll go.
He must have earned it in some previous existence. It is in the debit balance of the transactions in his lives." Such are the vague ideas floating in the air. Upon any individual's acts or plans for the future, the idea of transmigration seems to have no bearing whatever beyond a numbing of the will. For in theory, the Hindu's fate is just.
"Do you really wish to work?" she asked. He looked away from her. "No!" he answered, a little thickly. "We will talk, if you will." They neither of them moved. The atmosphere had suddenly become charged with a force indescribable, almost numbing. In the far distance they saw the level line of lights from a passing steamer. Mr.
His senses were numbing, and he must have fallen asleep soon after, for when he awoke it seemed to him that he had been asleep a long time, several hours at least, so many things had happened or seemed to have happened; but as he recovered his mind all the dream happenings melted away, and he could remember only his mother.
"So then," the engineer was saying as the dusk grew deeper, "so then, we'll apparently have to make this building our headquarters for a while. "As nearly as I can figure, this is about what must have happened. Some sudden, deadly, numbing plague or cataclysm must have struck the earth, long, long ago.
Yet in spite of that numbing sense of lassitude which clung like weights to her limbs, and for all her unaccustomed aversion to the thought of work, she knew her battle was won. Never again would she watch and listen and strangle at their birth, poor futile prayers for some assurance that a man's heart was still hers.
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