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"She is a bride," explained Mavity Bence in a flatted, toneless voice. "Leastways, Pap said he was a-goin' up on Unaka for to wed her and bring her down and I know in reason she'd have him." Johnnie's terror-stricken eyes searched her mother's irresponsible, gypsy face. "Now, Johnnie," fretted the little woman, "how long air you goin' to keep us standin' here in the road?
I am, it's a selfish job and I'm not reforming now. But twice to-night you children have risked your lives, without thought, for a stranger. I've been thinking about that railroad. Haven't you raised any grain or cattle that could be used for freight?" The low answer was toneless. "Drought killed the crops, prairie fires burned the hay, of course the cattle starved."
He pointed with a pen which he was holding in the direction of a heavily carved chair which stood near the table. Nicol Brinn sat down, regarding the speaker with lack-lustre eyes. "A query has arisen respecting your fraternal rights," continued the Hindu. "Am I to understand that you claim to belong to the Seventh Kama?" "Certainly," replied Brinn in a toneless voice.
"Oh, I suppose it'll be all right," he said, in a toneless voice. "Anyway, I ought to be off, I suppose. The thing starts round about eleven. I told my cab to wait.... Will you see if it's there, Jeeves?" "Very good, sir." There was something of a pause after the door had closed. A certain constraint. I mixed myself a beaker, while Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
"Drybone?" she echoed. Her voice was toneless and dull. He made no more explanations to her, but went quickly about the cabin. Soon he had set it in order, the dishes on their shelves, the table clean, the fire in the stove arranged; and all these movements she followed with a sort of blank mechanical patience.
She seemed to Livia somewhat unstrung and toneless. The separation from her brother in the morning might account for it. And a man of the admiral's age could be excused if he exalted the girl. Senility, like infancy, is fond of plain outlines for the laying on of its paints. The girl had rugged brows, a short nose, red hair; no young man would look at her twice. She was utterly unlike Chillon!
"Surely, Barney, it is unreasonable to ask me to decide at once to-night." He rose to his feet and lifted her gently. "You have decided. You have already chosen your life's path, and it lies apart from mine. Let me go quietly away." His voice was toneless, passionless. His fight of two days and two nights had left him exhausted. His apparent apathy chilled her to the heart.
"Farewell!" she said, in a rather toneless voice. He sprang down to the boat that lay waiting for him below; but she didn't look after him, and went in with bowed head the opposite way. Small things often weigh heavily in the world of impressions.
"She's not. I don't believe it," he answered, on a toneless note of decision. And the other knew that only the slow torture of the night-watches could brand the truth into his brain. With a gesture of weariness, infinitely pathetic, he turned back to the bed, and bending down, mechanically rearranged the sheet, and smoothed a crease or two out of the pillow.
There's a lot of rough people about " Perhaps there was an undercurrent of warning, of painful pleading, in her toneless voice which penetrated in some way to the brain of the lodger, for Mr. Sleuth looked up, and an uneasy, watchful look came into his luminous grey eyes. "I'm sorry to hear that, Mrs. Bunting. But I think I'll take your advice.
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