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He can't!" Mildred stared at the grey envelope a full three minutes. Mrs. Brace, wordless, showing no uneasiness as to the outcome, waited for her to speak. "It's no use, mother," she said at last. "We can't manage it him this thing. It's too late." The flat finality, the dreariness, of that announcement angered the older woman. Calmness fell from her.
Accustomed as she had always been to brisk remedial measures, and beyond those, to wordless pity and a deliberate ignoring of the evil, she was interested and touched by this demonstration. She had felt shy with Frieda from the first, wishing so earnestly to know her well and win her love that she could not be perfectly simple and natural with her.
'Well, even if there WASN'T, I will be bound by the wordless oath of your strangely upright land, and having said that I will be your friend I will be it. 'Then that's all right, said the Psammead; 'and there's the tea-bell. What are you going to do with your distinguished partner? He can't go down to tea like that, you know.
"Now if you'll tell me where you're hit . . . and if Mr. Norton will get me some sort of a light. A fire will have to do. . . ." Another little grunt came from Brocky Lane's tortured lips, this time a wordless expression of his unmeasured amazement. "I didn't want Patten in on this," Norton explained. She's a cousin of Engle.
Albright smiled a wordless response, the swift color flushed Miss Sterling's face, while fun played about Polly's mouth. "You have a pretty good time there, don't you?" he persisted. His eyes were bent on Miss Sterling; yet Mrs. Albright kindly interposed with the safe assertion, "It is a beautiful place." "Yes, it is beautiful," he replied, scanning the cheery, wrinkled face.
But no such charge can be laid at the door of "Rab and his Friends." The very dumbness of Rab, his mute yearning to help, his brave and loyal ministries in the hospital, doubly affecting because wordless and impotent, lend an appeal to this sketch that few sketches of men and women can be said to have. Characters. In a later sketch called "Our Dogs" Dr.
Just at that instant he opened the bluest of eyes, stared at Hanny with a grave aspect, tried to put his fist into his mouth and with a soft little sound dropped to sleep again. A wordless sense of delight and mystery stole over the little girl. She seemed lifted up to Heaven's very gates.
But outside the sharply defined inclosures of their business lives, the brothers went down into a wordless vale of fifteen years of estrangement, not in enmity, but rather as a hatpin, plunged through the heart, can kill, bloodlessly. When Lilly put on her hat outside in the now darkening and deserted offices, it seemed to her that the roar of men's passions was a gale through the silence.
The frightened wordless appeal stunned him as they stood there, confronting one another. Suddenly hope came surging up within her; her hand fell from his arm; she lifted her eyes in flushed silence only to find hopeless confirmation of all she dreaded in his set and colourless face. "Mr. Hamil," she said tremulously, "I never dreamed " "No, you didn't. I did. It is all right, Shiela."
The peace of this wordless prolongation of their talk together was something he lacked, for a long while, the will to break. It was not far short of noon when they came back into the veranda together.
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