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Parvis emitted the statement as unemotionally as a gramophone grinding out its "record." "You mean that he tried to kill himself, and failed? And tried again?" "Oh, he didn't have to try again," said Parvis, grimly. They sat opposite each other in silence, he swinging his eye-glass thoughtfully about his finger, she, motionless, her arms stretched along her knees in an attitude of rigid tension.
He laid a heavy hand on Bonbright's shoulder. "That was well done, my boy," he said. Bonbright was grateful for his understanding. A servant appeared. "Mr. Bonbright is wanted on the telephone," she said. It was Rangar. "There's rioting at the plant," the man said, unemotionally. "I have notified the police and taken the necessary steps." "Very well," said Bonbright.
"Well, she's creditable," said John unemotionally, but with a little smile beginning to show at the corners of his mouth. "I'm ready!" called Joy breathlessly from the top of the stairs, and ran down tumultuously. "Oh, Phyllis, can't I have some roses to take to John's sick people the poor ones? I want them to like me!" "Help yourself." Phyllis granted promptly. "Not a bit of it."
The last sight I had of Domrémy was a grey little garden, made sacred by the centuries, and an American soldier standing with a French child in his arms, her golden hair lying thickly against his neck. On the surface the American is unemotionally practical, but at heart he is a dreamer, first, last and always.
Truly one may say that Mrs Peagrim has revived the saloon." Mrs Peagrim bit her lip. "'Salon'." "'Salon'," said Miss Frisby unemotionally. "'They tell me, I am told, I am informed . . ." She paused. "That's all I have." "Scratch out those last words," said Mrs Peagrim irritably. "You really are hopeless, Miss Frisby! Couldn't you see that I had stopped dictating and was searching for a phrase?
"My dear Cairn what a welcome interruption. How good of you!" There was strange music in his husky tones. He spoke unemotionally, falsely, but Cairn could not deny the charm of that unique voice. It was possible to understand how women some women would be as clay in the hands of the man who had such a voice as that. His visitor nodded shortly.
But I bade him not be an ass, but send her along when he had to finish with her; with the result that for some months my pretty little Phyllis has been an inmate of my house. Marigold keeps a sort of non-commissioned parent's eye on her. To him she seems to be still the child whom he fed solicitously but unemotionally with Mrs. Marigold's cakes at tea parties years ago.
But I fixed my eyes upon this swaying curtain almost fiercely ... as an impassive half-caste of some kind who appeared to be a strange cross between a Græco-Hebrew and a Japanese, entered and quite unemotionally faced me, with a slight bow. So wholly unexpected was this apparition that I started back.
Everybody goes out quite unemotionally and with very few good-byes we made far more fuss in the old days about a week-end visit. Now that at last it has come this privileged moment for which I have worked and waited my heart is very quiet. It's the test of a character which I have often doubted. I shall be glad not to have to doubt it again.
Yet it was certainly direct, and perhaps the best that could be done, for the young lady did not emerge from it as coolly, as unemotionally, nor possibly as quickly as she had under the shade of the buckeyes. But she persuaded him by still holding his hand to sit beside her on the chilly, highly varnished "green rep" sofa, albeit to him it was a bank in a bower of enchantment.
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