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Updated: June 17, 2025
And then, half-consciously, she began to listen for him, the scamper of the light feet, the gay jingle of his collar, till in a moment she almost fancied that she heard him scratching at the door. She was half off the sofa before realization stabbed her, and she sank back numbly into her desolation. Again a long time passed an interval not to be measured by hours or minutes.
"All right, Judge; and remember it wasn't my doings," said my new employer, rising and pulling down to his ears his fearful bowler hat. "And now we better report to her before she does a hot-foot over here. You can pack your grip later in the day," he added to me. "Pack my grip yes, sir," I said numbly, for I was on the tick of leaving the Honourable George helpless in bed.
Sometimes she sat at her window, looking down through the bare branches of the poplar at the still, wintry garden; the painted table, heaped with grimy snow slowly melting in the chill March sunshine; the dead stalks of the lilies on each side of the icy bricks of the path; the rusty bars of the iron gate, through which, now and then, came the glimmer, a block away, of the river "their river"! Sometimes for an hour her mind numbly considered these things; then would come a fierce throb of pain: "He was all the time saying he 'couldn't afford' things; that was so he could give her money, I suppose?"
At the latter hour Johnny, making his tireless rounds but afflicted with despair, located Billy Wobbles, the one with the jerky eyelids and impulsive knees, on the loggia with Loring; Eugene was in the poker room trying numbly to discover the difference between a four-flush and a deuce-high hand; Tommy, his toupee well down toward his scanty white eyebrows, was boring the Courtney girls to the verge of tears; Cecil, stumbling almost rhythmically over his own calves, was playing tennis with Winnie and Sammy and Mrs.
For all her cynicism that long-term relationships were of individuals who stymied and quelled their thoughts to live numbly with their partners and took on joint tree growing activities to have something in common with them, she did know that there were some happy marriages out there.
"The carriage is here, my child. Make haste." Miriam pushed things hurriedly into her bag. Fraulein had gone downstairs. She was ready. She looked numbly round the room. Emma looked very far away. She turned out the gas. The dim light from the landing shone into the room. She stood for a moment in the doorway looking back. The room seemed to be empty.
In the alliance with Karnia he had given the Terrorists a scourge to flay the people to revolt. Now he waited for the King's death. Waited numbly. For, with the tolling of St. Stefan's bell would rise the cry for the new King. And there was no King. In the little room where the Sisters kept their medicines, so useless now, Hedwig knelt at the Prie-dieu and prayed.
So we in Lattimore, who a few weeks ago had been ready to sacrifice anything for the keeping of our good name; who by stealth justly foreclosed mortgages justly due, lest the world should wonder at their nonpayment; who so greatly had rejoiced in our own strength; who had felt that, surely, we who had wrought such wonders could not now fail: even we numbly came to regard receiverships and assignments as quite the thing to be expected.
He struggled numbly with the visualization of fever, brushing his hot hand across his eyes and trying to see which was real the geranium-sweet south chamber or the chilly house on Lonely Lake Road. Athalia had given him pain in that same way just for her own pleasure. Poor little Tay!
Keep calm keep calm! I'm coming! I've got you! Leave yourself to me." It was Dan's voice speaking in her ear, clear and distinct in the midst of the clamour; she felt herself seized in scientific fashion in the way at which she herself had played at rescuing her companions from imaginary death and, relinquishing all effort, was towed numbly to the shore.
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