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But even in her agony of heart and mind she remembered what she conceived to be her duty, and, in self-defense, assumed a cold unresponsiveness. "They say he'll be a way up millionaire," Jim went on, so busy with his own thoughts that he did not notice her silence. "Gee, and so easy, too. It's queer how fortune runs. Some folks work like like Dagos, and get mud.
When Quentin laconically, perhaps maliciously, observed that he had long suspected the nature of their regard for one another, Mrs. Garrison gave him a withering look and subsided into a chilling unresponsiveness that boded ill for the perceiving young man.
"I'm plum tetchious an' worrited erbout Dorothy." For an avowed lover the seated man gave the impression of churlish unresponsiveness as he made his grumbling reply. "I reckon she hain't goin' ter come ter no harm. She hain't nobody's sugar ner salt." Caleb ran his talon-like fingers through his mane of gray hair and shook his patriarchal head.
Well, I can only say that he never did anything better to the day of his death. The horrid, dead look, the cruel unresponsiveness, the indifference of the creature! While the poor woman protested and wept, he went on polishing up his ring! Then the tone in which he asked: "Is dinner ready?" It was the perfection of quiet malignity and cruelty.
"He succeeds by outwitting the little minds with which he comes in contact. A scientist is of more account he pits his brains against the dull unresponsiveness of inanimate matter and a hundredweight of black iron he makes do the work of a hundred housewives.
Something in their limp unresponsiveness chilled him as if he had been touched by ice. He gently released them and drew back, dismayed within himself. "Why why didn't you tell me, mamma?" she cried, the flutter in her voice increasing. A swift wave of color rushed to her cheeks.
She had bestowed no thought on June pretty, helpless June, watching with distressed, bewildered eyes while Dan unaccountably changed towards her, his moods alternating from sullen unresponsiveness to a kind of forced and contrite tenderness which she had found almost more difficult to meet and understand.
"In Italy, they say," put in Miss Amory "lying on a sofa before an open window on a lovely day, when the sun was setting." Susan Chapman started a little, and her face changed. The unresponsiveness melted away. There was something like a glow of relief in her look. She became human and lost sight of Miss Amory's supposed grandeur. "Was it like that?" she exclaimed. "Was it?
His unresponsiveness irritated Kellogg; he thought a while, then delivered himself of a didactic conclusion: "The trouble with you is you were brought up all wrong." "Well, I've been brought down all right. Besides, that's a platitude in my case." "Let's see: I've know you er nine years." "Is it that long?"
A particularly beautiful young woman stood just behind the chief, watching the strangers with big yellow cat-eyes. Kieran took her to be the man's daughter. He smiled at her. She continued to stare, deadpan and blank-eyed, with no answering flicker of a smile. It was as though she had never seen one before. Kieran shivered. All this silence and unresponsiveness became eerie.
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