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Jim was obliged to tell him the same things a great many times, and to end at last without the satisfaction of knowing that the Irishman comprehended the precious plans. He would have been glad to make a confidant of Mike, but the Irishman's obtuseness and inability to comprehend his tenderer sentiments, repulsed him, and drove him back upon himself.
Sherwood surveyed Nan and Ben Sansome leisurely. "I must say she doesn't look crushed," he said, after a moment. "Do you expect her to weep violently?" asked Mrs. Sherwood. He accepted good naturedly the customary feminine scorn for the customary masculine obtuseness. "Well, I don't know that we can help it," said he, philosophically. Mrs. Sherwood appeared to come to a sudden resolution.
And running there under the trees, I fell and lost consciousness. What happened afterward, with one glimmering exception, I had to be told. Nelson, with his enormous strength, picked me up and dragged me on and aboard the train. When he had got me into a seat, I fought and panted so terribly for air that even with his obtuseness he knew I was in a bad way.
For there was one quality in Henry for which she was never prepared, however much she reminded herself of it: his obtuseness. He simply did not notice things, and there was no more to be said.
She paused while Juliette still looked provokingly innocent. So her mother took a long step forward, for in truth she grew impatient with all this obtuseness in which, for reasons of her own, she did not believe. "If I were a girl of your age," mused Madame as though to herself, "I do not think that ring would go to England." "How, Mamma, would you steal it?"
One afternoon at the Dixons' he really forced himself upon her, and with all the obtuseness of an enthusiastic boy tried to discuss the Lotus Eaters of Tennyson. It was too absurd. Captain Kempton was making signals to Edith all the time, and Lieutenant Gatwick had gone off in disgust, and he had promised to bring her a puppy "by Vick out of Wasp."
"That makes no difference, no difference whatever," replied the clerk with the importance and obtuseness of the bureaucrat. "The ordinance requires that there be a stall for one." Another of the thousand instances of official barbarity was perpetrated at our expense while Sanchez de Toca was Alcalde.
Burton says, 'Pray for my class, and Miss Ames says, 'I love Jesus, and Miss Hanley says, 'The Lord is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever, it becomes improper. Will you pardon my obtuseness and explain to me the wherefore?"
Looking at her he appeared to hesitate, as if estimating the possible consequences of what he wished to say, and at last blurted out "After all, I loved you. . . ." "I did not know," she whispered. "Good God!" he cried. "Why do you imagine I married you?" The indelicacy of his obtuseness angered her. "Ah why?" she said through her teeth.
"That is one side of the account, ye fool," said he; "think of the rates, the taxes, the outgoings. You want to go from your bargain, and turn me on the world; but I have got you in black and white, tight, tight." Then Alfred saw the truth, and wondered at his past obtuseness. His father was a monomaniac.
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