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And I think that it overtures our reason in different ways." They remained sitting side by side, staring straight before them with unseeing eyes. "It doesn't matter," said Sullenbode at last, with a smile, getting up. "Soon it will be ended, one way or another. Come, let us be off!" Maskull too got up. "Where's Corpang?" he asked listlessly.
Marjorie and Leonard were standing in the very centre of the vast dingy shed. Heavy-eyed, they looked about them with an unseeing, bewildered gaze, that kept reverting to each other. Marjorie had both her hands about one of Leonard's, and was holding it convulsively in the pocket of his great-coat. Many times she had pictured this last scene to herself, anticipating every detail.
But five of our comrades would see no earthly day again; and three dozen strong men of the day before lay stretched upon the ground, pulseless and shrunken and purple, with wrinkled skin and wide, unseeing eyes. Before the sun had risen our dead, coffined only by their army blankets, lay in unmarked graves.
I had forgotten the intruder; the interest which had carried me thus far had become lost in a fresher one of which the beginning and ending lay hidden within the four walls I now stared upon, unseeing. Not to see and yet to feel did that make the horror? If so, another lighted match must help me out. I struck one while the thought was hot within me, and again took a look at the room.
Moore slipped out of the house by the servants' quarters, and crossed the drying lawn at the back of the house, to gain the old grape arbor beyond. She sat there with burning cheeks and a fast-beating heart, and gazed with unseeing eyes down the valley. Presently she heard the horn and the scraping start of the motor-car, and a moment later it swept into view on the road below.
Now try " She laughed, and bending over the sheet of paper which he had laid on his note-case, began to write. Archer walked away a few steps, staring with radiant unseeing eyes at the passersby, who, in their turn, paused to stare at the unwonted sight of a fashionably-dressed lady writing a note on her knee on a bench in the Common.
Particulars of his examination before the magistrates will be found on page 4. There was a dull singing in her ears. An electric tram, coming up from the underground passage, seemed to bring with it some sort of thunder from an unknown world. She staggered on, unseeing, gasping for breath. If she could find somewhere to sit down! If she could only rest for a moment!
The mulatto in slippers, aproned to the chin, glided through the cabin with unseeing eyes as though for him no one there had existed. . . . "Is it my heart that aches so?" Mrs. Travers asked herself, contemplating Lingard's motionless figure. "How long will this sensation of dull pain last?
I could not suppose that the look of determination on my face troubled him. "Well?" I said. "What was it you wanted of me?" Smith looked up at the President. And Smith had always, hitherto, seemed so unseeing of consequences, and, therefore, unappreciative of means, that his betrayal of interest was indicative of purpose.
The next day when he and Eleanor returned to Mercer, he sat in the car watching with unseeing eyes the back of her head, her swaying hat, the softly curling tendrils of dark hair in the nape of her neck and he saw before him a narrow path, leading across quaking bogs of evasions! toward a goal of always menaced safety. Mr.
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