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Updated: June 9, 2025
But here, at last, was a captain whom no cautious or hesitating instructions could prevent from doing the work set before him to the best of his ability. Sword in hand, he maintained the principle of "Death before tribute," so often and so unmeaningly toasted at home; and it was not his fault, if he did not establish it. At all events, he restored the credit of our flag in the Mediterranean.
When he came into the study ten minutes later he found the party ranged to meet him. A girl was sitting on a box in the corner by the window, and stood up to receive him; a young man was sitting back in a Windsor chair, with one boot off, jerking spasmodically; his eyes stared unmeaningly before him.
A French maid in a country house faugh!" Miss Arthur gazed across at her brother, and said, loftily, and somewhat unmeaningly: "It is what I have chosen to do, John." Then to Mr. Davlin, sweetly: "It is so hard to dispense with a maid when you have been accustomed to one." "I suppose so." "And this one comes so well recommended, you know, by Mrs. Overman and Mrs. Grosvenor.
He seemed to listen, he did listen; but the words fell upon his ear unmeaningly; he could not understand what Gaston was saying, and mechanically answered "yes" or "no," like one in a dream. Whilst necessity, absolute necessity, kept him here at Gaston's side, his thoughts were all with the young man who had just passed by. What had brought Raoul to Oloron? What plot was he hatching?
"And what's the rest of the story then?" inquired No. 3, whose curiosity was aroused. "Well! when the old Doctor found the world as it was, so 'SLOW, as you very unmeaningly call it, he took to conjuring and talking with evil spirits by way of amusement; and then they easily persuaded him to be wicked, merely because it gave him something fresh and exciting to do." "Watts's hymn again!
"'Ess ug'y man," added Jamie unmeaningly. Sunny's hand went up to his face, and he scratched amongst his sparse beard as though to test the accuracy of the accusation. Then he grinned sheepishly. "Guess I'm jest an ugly fairy that wants to be kind to two lonesome kiddies," he beamed. "O oh! You'se a fairy?" said Vada doubtfully.
Pip, thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye; all thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the melancholy ship, and mocked it! The Gilder Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery.
This Ernest, his wife's lover, was a pretty boy of about three-and-twenty, with light hair, a turned-up nose, and a small moustache probably the most insignificant of all his acquaintances. Several minutes passed; a half hour passed. Lavretsky still stood there, clenching the fatal note in his hand, and gazing unmeaningly on the floor.
She was being faced by a new and to her a most dread enemy, for till to-night she and that base physical fear which is the coward's foe had never met. Pressing her hands together, she whispered the short, simple prayer for the Faithful Departed that she had said so often and, she now felt, so unmeaningly.
But Harry's powers of endurance were now exhausted. He had spent a long day of excessive fatigue and excitement, and having wound it up with a heavy supper, sleep began to assail him with a fell ferocity that nothing could resist. He yawned once or twice, and sat on the bed blinking unmeaningly at the fire, as if he had something to say to it which he could not recollect just then.
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