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Updated: May 29, 2025
Old verses, old unfinished verses, coming and going. In the long pauses of the game, when Mamma sat stone-still, hypnotised by the green and white chequers, her curved hand lifted, holding her pawn, her head quivering with indecision. In dreams He has made you wise With the wisdom of silence and prayer.... Coming and going, between the leap-frogging of the green figures and the white.
"She sent for me," apologized he. "I went. We came together with a bang. She told me I wanted to marry you; I told her YOU wanted to marry ME. She told me I was low; I told her she was a fraud. She said I was insolent; I said good-afternoon. If I hadn't marched out rather quickly I guess she'd have had me thrown out." Margaret was sitting stone-still, her hands limp in her lap.
She lay stone-still in a trance of terror and mournfulness, mechanically counting the tears as they fell, one by one.
In a quick vision, as she stood stone-still, Maria saw herself alone in the chapel by night, prostrate, repentant, washing the altar steps with tears, forgiven of God, since God could still forgive her, honoured on earth as before, since none but the silent confessor could ever know what she had done, still less what she had meant to do.
Rikki-tikki smashed two eggs, and tumbled backward down the melon-bed with the third egg in his mouth, and scuttled to the verandah as hard as he could put foot to the ground. Teddy and his mother and father were there at early breakfast; but Rikki-tikki saw that they were not eating anything. They sat stone-still, and their faces were white.
And at that, Helmar burst in: he was like one wild, and he conjured Mary, but she sat there stone-still, looking through him with the eyes in her white, deadly face, as though she'd never seen him, and answering no word, as if she were deaf to sound of his voice henceforth; and he rose and glared down on my mother, who stood there with her white throat up, proud and defiant as a stag at bay, and he vowed he'd darken her day, for she had taken the light out of his life.
It was little enough for him to do in return for their kindness, and he could see that Melissa's affection for Jack was even greater than his own: and how incomparably lonelier than his life was the life that she must lead! This time Melissa did not rush to the yard gate when he was gone. She sank slowly where she stood to the steps of the porch, and there she sat stone-still.
She sat stone-still, her face set and strained, as he had seen it after the tournament. "There he is," she murmured the words a mere movement of her lips. He hated to see her look like that; and putting out a hand, he touched her arm. "I don't see him," he said, answering her murmur. "He'll be coming, though. Not nervous, are you?" She started at his touch shrank from it almost; or so he fancied.
"It is over," I said, "that was the bullets." But presently there forced itself on my dazed senses a sound a confusion of sounds darkness succeeding the white flash then steadying itself into gloomy daylight; a tumult; a heap of stricken, tumbled men lying stone-still before me; a fearful horror upon every living face; and then . . . it all burst on me with distinct conviction.
Something reminded him of Alice Manson. He laid his hand on the figure. It was a woman to the touch as well as to the eye. But not yet did she move an inch. He would have raised her face. Then she resisted. All at once he was sure she was Alice. "Alice!" he cried. "Good God! sitting in the cold night!" She made him no answer, sat stone-still. "What shall I do for you?" he said.
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