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She had experienced a shock from which she could rally only gradually; she looked broken. Her eyes appeared to see nothing about her but stared off into the distance through a veil of abstraction. "We will have to go," she said tonelessly. "There is no other way." They passed by the inert figure on the floor and out, Kendric with his left hand always on her arm.
"Yes, lord," tonelessly. "Through here, then, my friends." The door opened and closed behind them as they stepped inside. "This is my main laboratory. And there, friend Carse, is the object which is to concern us." With one glance the adventurer took in the laboratory. It was a great room, a perfect circle in shape, with doors opening into the four wings of the building.
Somehow the irrevocability of such a vow, undertaken voluntarily, had not struck her in its full significance until Catherine had quietly, almost tonelessly, in the flat, level voice not infrequently acquired by the religious, affirmed it. "Supposing" Magda looked round the rigidly bare room with a new sense of apprehension "supposing I felt I simply couldn't stand it any longer?
Now that love has come into my life and Heaven knows I have striven against it what would you have me do?" "And what would you have me do?" said Judith, tonelessly. "Forgive me for breaking off the old, and trust me to make the new pleasant to you." She made no answer, but stood still staring out of the window like a woman of stone.
You have seen little girls with an agonized self-consciousness walk up an aisle to a platform where they must bow to their fathers and mothers and their critical schoolmates and "speak a piece." Rosemary resembled the most bashful little girl that you can recall. "All right," said Luck tonelessly, and placed his palm over the lens while he gave the crank another turn.
"Do you mean to tell me " "They was sittin' on top a big log," said Blenham tonelessly. "Confidential lookin', you know. I won't say he was holdin' her hands, an' at the same time I won't say he wasn't. An' I won't say he'd jus' kissed her, two seconds before I rode aroun' a bend in the trail." One of his ponderous shrugs and a grimace concluded his meaning. Then he laughed.
The words "Too late!" beat in her brain like the pendulum of a clock, maddeningly insistent. "If only I had been content to go to him without knowing!" she went on tonelessly. "But that paragraph in the paper it frightened me. I felt that I must know if if I had been wronging him all the time. And I had!" she ended wearily. "I had." Then, after a moment: "So you see, I can't go back to him."
"She was your sweetheart." His gruff voice was oddly gentle. Hilary brushed a weary hand over his forehead. The Earth, the universe itself, were suddenly dead, meaningless gobs of matter. "Yes," he said tonelessly. "Five years ago she promised to wait for my return. She kept her word. I found her again only to lose her." Grim said quietly: "I too once loved a girl.
There must be obedience to the utmost " The grid operator cursed as he rose from the floor. Calhoun did not notice. The computer had finally delivered a strip of paper on which was the answer he had demanded. And it was of no use. Calhoun said tonelessly: "Turn that off, will you?" While the grid operator obeyed, Calhoun read and reread the strip of tape.
Will you not be reconciled to him?" he pleaded. "No." "But why?" He spoke very gently, almost in appeal. "Why?" she repeated tonelessly, her eyes still fixed on his face, "because he is hers Aurora Googe's " She paused for another effort. Her eyes turned at last to the portrait of Louis Champney on the wall at the foot of her bed.
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