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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Are you very tired?" asked his wife, gently, when he had dismounted close to the tent. The question would have been an unnecessary one had it been put to her instead of to her husband, for her voice had that peculiar flat toneless sound for which extreme weariness is answerable.
From somewhere within the building answered a mournful clangor, a cracked and toneless jangle, which, seeming to echo through empty apartments, sought and found an exit apparently by way of one of the openings in the round tower; for it was from above our heads that the noise came to us.
"I'm glad you have got on one of those white, frilly things you used to wear. I always liked them." Katherine could not speak just then. This sudden and complete intimacy unnerved her. It was so long since any one had spoken to her thus. It was very dear to her, yet the toneless voice gave a strange unreality to the tender words.
She was carrying out plates and clearing a space about the couch. Virginia, kneeling by her mother, repeated over and over again, in an even and toneless voice, "Oh God, spare her Oh God, spare her!" The doctor was presently among them, dragged, Susan thought, from the faint odor of wine about him, from his own dinner.
"Earl is dead!" she said, in a queer, toneless voice. "He died trying to get that thing! I will get it, and destroy it!" Before I could detain her, even had I sought to do so, she stepped into the filthy water, struggled to recover her foothold, and sank above her waist into its sliminess. Without hesitation she began to advance toward the niche which contained the slipper.
"And you are not afraid to trust me with this money?" he asked, his voice toneless. "Not in the least. There's no other way to manage it and I fancy you know what would happen if you didn't hand it over. There is such a thing as the last straw." It was a week later. Alexina was changing her dress.
The past had simply ceased to exist for him; and because it is some way the key to the future, the latter seemed likewise blank, a toneless gray that did not in the least waken his interest. Indeed the only light that flung into the unfathomable darkness of his forgetfulness was that which played in his dreams at night.
The song was coarse and toneless, but he knew no other way of voicing it, and she noted nothing of its crudeness. "Daddy, you're a base deceiver." She was wagging an accusing finger before his eyes, and he blinked in exaggerated concern. "O' course," he admitted, "I don't say I've had much chance with more than one. This job of mine is death to gallivanting.
She laid one small hand on the sheets as though to wrest them from his grasp; but he lifted her fingers aside with a rather weary gesture. "No, dear, I can't leave this." His voice was flat and toneless. "I've promised to send it off the first thing to-morrow morning, and there's a lot to be done yet." "But I'm sure you're ill! Have you got neuralgia again?"
Fear grew apace with wonder in Mabyn's eyes; his breath quickened; he ceaselessly passed his hand in front of his face. "Natalie!" he muttered, still in the toneless voice of one who sleeps. "Oh, my God! It's Natalie!" Grasping the edge of the bench, he pulled himself to his feet; and took a few uncertain steps toward her. He put out his hand fearfully. Natalie sharply reined back her horse.
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