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Their independence fettered by the iron rules of the Vatican and of their particular order, these creatures had nothing to do; and like the rest of us under such conditions, became vacuously introspective.
They stare at one vacuously, joylessly. It is said that the village of Amberley is known to the natives as "Amberley, God help us!" How many stations look at us from their name-plates with that "God help us!" air! What I should like to see would be a name-plate that would seem to announce to us in passing: "Glasgow, thank God!" or whatever the name of the station may be.
His wits were befogged, his throat numb. He simply stared vacuously at Judge Watkins, his lips vibrating with fear. "Sit down. No; take the stand!" cried Judge Watkins. "I'll try this case myself." As if his foot were already attached to a ball and chain Delany dragged himself up up hundreds of feet up, it seemed to the witness chair.
Not a word passed. We were all failures in life, and could not trouble to dissemble it, in that heat. Moreover, we were used to each other, as types if not as persons, and had lost curiosity. So we sat listless, dispirited, drawing difficult breath and staring vacuously. The hope we shared in common that nobody would claim the vacant seat was too obvious to be discussed.
The aureole glimmered transiently: she could neither think highly of the woman about to be wedded, nor poetically of the man; nor, therefore, rosily of the ceremony, nor other than vacuously of life.
I put my hand on a talon of his. He turned his head slightly. Smiled vacuously. "Father!" A perturbation clouded his eyes ... that painful struggle toward comprehension observed in an infant's face. "Who are you? What do you want?" "I'm your son Johnnie!... and I've come back to take care of you." "Johnnie is away ... far off ... on the sea ... in a ship."
Another member of the circle perused the same page of the same book day after day, laughing vacuously over its contents. Never by any mistake did he call for a different book, and I never saw him turn a leaf. No doubt I was counted as one of this group of irresponsibles. All this hurt me. I saw no humor in it then, for I was even at this time an intellectual aristocrat. I despised brainless folk.
"'Half a beast is the great god Pan," this tall, languid-looking man murmured to himself, as he was vacuously staring at those paints and brushes and cosmetics; and then he got up and began to walk indeterminately about the room, his hands behind his back. Presently the door was opened, and in came Lionel Moore, followed by his dresser.
Surely it needed all the strength of her charm to carry off this astounding behaviour. It was no discredit to Lorison's strength of mind that his head began to whirl. Pocketing his hands, he rambled vacuously over to the druggist's windows, and began assiduously to spell over the names of the patent medicines therein displayed.
And this was how Dick climbed the slope and was approaching the door of the hut when Tenney stole behind him through the dusk and fired. Raven, in the instant of seeing Dick there on the ground, locked the door of the hut, dropped the key in his pocket, knelt by him and, with a hand on his pulse, snapped out his orders to Tenney, standing there staring vacuously: "Go down to the house.
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