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I think I should have stayed with him but for the abnormal obtusity of his facial angle. Turning up Clarendon Road, I heard the faint words of the Wenusberg music by Wagner from a pianoforte in the second story of No. 34.
I asked; "for, assuredly, you have to-day made the most powerful and telling speech of your life." "Yes, telling upon the audience, perhaps, but not upon the victim he escapes unscathed. I care nothing for the crack of the rifle, if the bullet flies wide of the mark. I wanted to reach his heart, and crush it to remorse; but I have learned his moral obtusity is superior to shame.
He groaned and looked around him, as if he sought something to cling to, the spirit he had shown in the pride of his strength availing nothing. All these, however, were but passing emotions, and the natural obtusity of the man returned. "I do not think, sir," he said, gazing intently at John Effingham, "that I have been a very great sinner."
She knew, too, that he was easily to be deceived, that though his intelligence was keen, his instincts were dull, that he was gifted with no fineness of touch, with no subtle appreciation of the characters of men and women; and, to a certain extent, she looked down upon him for his obtusity.
"Treats all round, sir," said the Greenlander, wondering at the other's obtusity, who, however, had never so much as heard of the thing before. At last, upon his reluctant acquiescence in the demands of the sailor, and handing him two half-crown pieces, the unfortunate passenger was suffered to descend.
There is, as it appeared to me, an obtusity on all points of honourable feeling.
Some ladies would have thought it high time to leave the Squire alone with his chestnut tree; or, at all events, unnecessary to keep up that tone of high-souled feminine obtusity which they are quite justified in adopting if gentlemen will not speak out but Jane again does neither. Not that we say she was wrong, but quite the reverse, considering the circumstances of the case Mr.
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