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She seemed to understand speechlessness, yet to take it lightly, as if on their account. She talked at them, through them, with them, really, in such a manner that they were drawn helplessly into her shuttle and woven into the gracefully gliding pattern of social convention in spite of themselves.
Philologically speaking, we should all be at sea, drifting, like a set of deaf-mutes, on a wide and inaudible ocean all inarticulate, tongue-tied, voiceless with only the screeching of the sea-mew, or some other sepulchral bird of the night, to greet us as in wide-mouthed derision of our speechlessness and folly.
'Bazzard! said Mr. Grewgious, suddenly turning to him. 'I follow you, sir, returned Bazzard; who had done his work of consuming meat and drink in a workmanlike manner, though mostly in speechlessness. 'I drink to you, Bazzard; Mr. Edwin, success to Mr. Bazzard! 'Success to Mr.
Dear friend, will you remember that you are sharing your burden with me, and that I, who am accounted something in the world and who know life pretty thoroughly, believe in you and hope for you." They paused for a moment by the side of the steamer rail. She understood so well his speechlessness. She drew her hand away from his and held it to his lips. "Please kiss my fingers," she begged.
There were moments when only absolute speechlessness prevented her giving me a stupendous "talking-to" I could see it in her eye. The wrong things she would have said! And I recall, too, Mrs. Ramboat's slow awakening to something in, the air, the growing expression of solicitude in her eye, only her well-trained fear of Marion keeping her from speech.
And yet, here I am, driven to the damnedest tedious time of it for bare food and shelter, and compelled to drink ale when I'm oh, curse it, gentlemen, was ever such rotten luck?" Cornelius, whom disillusion had stricken into speechlessness at this revelation of the old Ned under the masquerade, sighed heavily and looked pained.
He opened an abyss at her feet, and in deadly alarm of him she exclaimed: 'Oh! not yet; not immediately. She trembled, she made her petition dismal by her anguish of speechlessness. 'There will be such . . . not yet! Perhaps later. They must not be troubled yet at present. I am . . . I cannot pray, delay! 'But you are mine! said Alvan. 'You feel it as I do. There can be no real impediment?
If they did, one very unpleasant phase of our national life would be greatly changed for the better. But it is in our homes that this speechlessness tells most fearfully, on the breakfast and dinner and tea-tables, at which a silent father and mother sit down in haste and gloom to feed their depressed children. This is especially true of men and women in the rural districts.
Who that is permitted the privilege of being near you could do other than seek to render himself worthy?" And then before she could add a word, M. de Kercadiou came blustering through the window, his spectacles on his forehead, his face inflamed, waving in his hand "The Acts of the Apostles," and apparently reduced to speechlessness.
"If the proceedings had begun with prayer and ended with a hymn, it wouldn't have surprised me in the least!" Robinette said to herself, looking silently on. Her silence, luckily for her, was taken for the speechlessness of awe, and did a good deal to make up, in the eyes of her august relative, for her late indiscretions.
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