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Updated: July 19, 2025
She had opened at one of the tables, unperceivingly, a big volume of which she turned the leaves. "Don't 'adore' a girl, Mr. Mitchy just help her. That's more to the purpose." "Help you?" he cried. "You bring tears to my eyes!" "Can't a girl have friends?" she went on. "I never heard of anything so idiotic." Giving him, however, no chance to take her up on this, she made a quick transition.
Then, calmly, unperceivingly, he died. He fell down from the steep and lay with his legs crooked and turned upward. This was during the night. The stars were brilliant. Birds were crying in the woods and over the river. Somewhere owls hooted. The male-bird lay at the bottom of the ravine for five days. His body was already decaying, and emitted a bitter, offensive odour.
There is no subtlety in such a method, it seems; a lighter, shyer handling of the facts, more suggestion and less statement, might be expected to make a deeper effect. And indeed Balzac's confident way is not one that would give a good result in most hands; it would produce the kind of description that the eye travels over unperceivingly, the conscientious introduction that tells us nothing.
The people pushed each other a little, edged about, advanced and retreated, looking at each other with differing faces sometimes blandly, unperceivingly, sometimes with a harshness of contemplation, a kind of cruelty, Ransom thought; sometimes with sudden nods and grimaces, inarticulate murmurs, followed by a quick reaction, a sort of gloom.
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