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She wished her beloved to be spared from a disappointment, thinking he deserved all successes, because of the rigours inflicted by her present tonelessness of blood and being. Her unresponsive manner with him was not due to lack of fire in the blood or a loss of tenderness.
After Violetta had gone, Carlo, though he shunned secret interviews, addressed his betrothed as one who was not strange to his occupation and the trial his heart was undergoing. She could not doubt that she was beloved, in spite of the colourlessness and tonelessness of a love that appealed to her intellect.
"Oh," she said, with all the tonelessness of disinterest, and went on with her stitching. She must have sensed my frame of mind, for, after a moment, she paused from her sewing and looked at me. Your first sea funeral, Mr. Pathurst? "Death at sea does not seem to affect you," I said bluntly. "Not any more than on the land." She shrugged her shoulders. "So many people die, you know.
It certainly seems to me that I have noticed in myself moments of intellectual tonelessness, when in the country, during the vacation, I look at the ground, or the grass, without thinking of anything or at least, of anything but what I am looking at, and without comparing my sensation with anything.
She wished her beloved to be spared from a disappointment, thinking he deserved all successes, because of the rigours inflicted by her present tonelessness of blood and being. Her unresponsive manner with him was not due to lack of fire in the blood or a loss of tenderness.
He is Armand and yet another; his look at times quite frightens me." "Yet you know why he is so sad," said Marguerite in a strange, toneless voice which she seemed quite unable to control, for that tonelessness came from a terrible sense of suffocation, of a feeling as if her heart-strings were being gripped by huge, hard hands.
"I realized by his face the look in the eyes, the tone of the voice, or rather, the tonelessness of the voice what her finding out meant for Don. I read by all signs that she was making him suffer atrociously and I owed that girl a grudge. She'd taken him from me. For the first time a power stronger than mine was at work; and yet, things being as they were, my hope of getting him back lay in her."
Toward midnight he awoke, refreshed and happy, and broke into instant song: "The daylight may do for the gay, The thoughtless, the heartless, the free, But there's something about the moon's ray " he was chanting in perfect tonelessness, when St. George cried out. The others sprang to their feet. "Lights!" said St.
The little man accepted the card with no discernible sign of jubilation over Shaynon's discomfiture. "Thank you," he said mildly; but waited close by her side. For a moment Shaynon's face reminded him of one of the masks of crimson lacquer and black that grinned from the walls of Mrs. Inche's "den." But his accents, when he spoke, were even, if menacing in their tonelessness.
What do you know about that big plantation up river, the one called 'Pirate's Haven'?" "Nothin'." Jeems' answer was clear. The hostility was gone from his voice; nothing remained but an even tonelessness. "Come now, I know you have reason to be hot. But this is business. I'll make it worth your while " "Nothin'," answered Jeems as concisely as before. "You can't expect us to believe that.
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