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Seeing her inflexible, he became halting in his speech, till finally he stopped, still looking at her with an unresenting, dog-like gaze of entreaty. She made no comment when he ceased, and for a time they sat in silence. "Do you know what this is?" he asked, holding the packet toward her. She shook her head wonderingly. "It's what I owe you." She made a gesture of deprecation.
Frost and Tuckett." George opened it, and read from the top of a slip of paper: "'ADMIRALTY, PROBATE, AND DIVORCE. The humble petition of Jaspar Bellew " He lifted his eyes, and his look, uncannily impassive, unresenting, unangered, dogged, caused the messenger to drop his gaze as though he had hit a man who was down. "Thanks. Good-night!" He shut the door, and read the document through.
There was not much of "comeliness" in the "marred face" of an unresenting Christ, but how fascinating the autocratic, prophet-painted, empire-inscribed pose of Redemption's Champion, clad in ermine of final decree, alternately welcoming his ancient "Elect," and with awful leftward gesture upon countless millions pronouncing the changeless judgment of "Depart."
He looked absently into the varying stream of faces, stared at the whirling sky-signs, the lights flashing from the tall buildings, heard snatches of the music from the open doors of the cafes and restaurants. Men, and even women, elbowed him, unresenting, out of the way, without the semblance of an apology.
But Godfrey thrust her away without looking at her, and left the room, followed humbly by the unresenting Snuff perhaps because she saw no other career open to her.
My dear, dear brother, answered my uncle Toby, rising up by my father's help, say no more about it; you are heartily welcome, had it been ten times as much, brother. But 'tis ungenerous, replied my father, to hurt any man; a brother worse; but to hurt a brother of such gentle manners, so unprovoking, and so unresenting; 'tis base: By Heaven, 'tis cowardly.
For, all the way, his master, apparently unconscious of every thing else, had been immediately aware of the slightest slackening of muscle under him, the least faltering of the onward pace, and, in the temper of the savage, which wakes the moment the man of civilization is hard put to it, the moment he flagged, still drove the cruel spurs into his flanks, when the grand, unresenting creature would rush forward at straining speed not, I venture to think, so much in obedience to the pain, as in obedience to the will of his master, fresh recognized through the pain.
With a look of dumb, unresenting sadness, he turned away, and, leaning on the mantelpiece, stood with his back toward her, and his face buried in his hands. Minutes went by in silence. When he spoke it was over his shoulder, and, as it were, parenthetically: "But, Diane, I love you." He stood as he was, listening, but as if without much expectation, for a response.
Jumbo crams another cracker into his mouth and speeds away, hunching the patient, unresenting air with his elbows. Ah! See that little flicker of flame on the roof! Do, for pity's sake, hurry up with that connection! The roof is really burning. See? They are trying to chop away the burning place. But there's another! And another! A-a-ah! Hooray-ay! Connection's made! Now you'll see something.
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