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As Wyant emerged from the house he paused once more to glance up at its scarred brick facade. The marble hand drooped tragically above the entrance: in the waning light it seemed to have relaxed into the passiveness of despair, and Wyant stood musing on its hidden meaning. But the Dead Hand was not the only mysterious thing about Doctor Lombard's house.
He knew that he had received the bounty-money; and though he was aware that he had been partly tricked into it, and had no hope, no care, indeed, for any of the advantages so liberally promised him the night before, yet he was resigned, with utterly despondent passiveness, to the fate to which he had pledged himself.
Mab and her master had both grown older; she smelt round him long before she was sure of him, and then their content in one another was less shown by fervent rapture, than by the quiet hand smoothing her silken coat; and, in return, by her wistful eye, nestling gesture, gently waving tail. And Leonard! How was it with him? It was not easy to tell in his absolute passiveness.
She was more easily dealt with in one sense, for she was hardly ever fretful or exacting now; but the gentle passiveness that assented to all things, the forgetfulness of the trifles of the day, and the pleased dwelling on scenes and events of long ago, were far more painful to her children than her fretfulness had ever been.
Madame was pale, but her eyes were glowing. She folded her hands with a passiveness which boded future ill. "When you said that you trapped me that night at the Palais Royal, simply to take a feather from my plume, you did not mean that. You had some deeper motive." Madame's fingers locked and unlocked. "Monsieur . . . !" she began,
It went on those betrothal vows, dictated while the two cold hands were linked, his with a kind of limp passiveness, hers, quaking, especially as, in the old use of York, he took her "for laither for fairer" laith being equivalent to loathly "till death us do part."
And not even when some one, more plainly spoken than others, would reply to such a remark "She did not dress like a fright before you were married," did he perceive his presumption and his errors. But passiveness under such a relation does not always permanently remain; it was accompanied from the first by a sense of oppression and injustice, though love kept the feeling subdued.
He did not retire into a "wise passiveness" as regards the world's affairs until he had written some of the greatest political literature and, in saying this, I am thinking of his sonnets rather than of his political prose that has appeared in England since the death of Milton. Sir Sidney Colvin deserves praise for the noble architecture of the temple he has built in honour of Keats.
She lay very still, waiting with a sensuous pleasure for the first effects of the soporific. She knew in advance what form they would take the gradual cessation of the inner throb, the soft approach of passiveness, as though an invisible hand made magic passes over her in the darkness.
It might be foolish and feminine to be anxious, but did she not mean well, and was it not, therefore, honourable? The mystery inflamed her imagination. Charley's passiveness when he was assaulted by old Louis and afterwards threatened by the saddler seemed to her indifference to any sort of danger the courage of the hopeless life, maybe. Instantly her heart overflowed with sympathy.
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