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Tutt received five thousand dollars down, five more if Mock Hen was convicted, three more if he died before the conclusion of the trial, and twenty thousand if he was acquitted. Mr. Tutt, assuming an equal impassivity, pondered upon the matter for about an inch of stogy and then informed the committee that the terms were eminently satisfactory.
His smile was tolerant, even genial, but his face remained like the face of a sphinx. "It is for the good of Japan I came," he said, "for her good that I have stayed here so long. At the same time it has been very pleasant. I have met with great kindness." She leaned a little forward so as to look into his face. The impassivity of his features was like a wall before her.
Hard flags received him with native impassivity: stumbling, he lost balance and sat down with an emphasis that drove the breath from him in one mighty "Ooof!" There was a simultaneous confusion of new, strange voices on the other side of the fence; cries of surprise, recognition, excitement: "Feeny, by all that's holy!" "Mike Grogan, or I'm a liar!" "What hit the two av urn?" "Gawd knows!"
The interview was then closed; Emperor and Empress both assumed a Buddha-like impassivity of expression and allowed the I.G. to back just as if they were entirely oblivious of his presence. Such is the Chinese method of differentiating between the friend and the sovereign.
Her eyes fixed upon her own mirrored eyes, she continued to insert the pins with an air of stubborn impassivity; but when a large loop fell to her neck she allowed her arms to drop. She sank upon a chair and, still with unflawed stateliness, presented the back of her head to Mrs. Talcott's skilful manipulations. Mrs.
"Oh!" returned her ladyship without a shadow of change in her impassivity, except Wingfold was right in fancying the slightest movement of squint in the eye next him. She held out her hand. "This is an unexpected " For once in her life her lips were truer than her heart: they did not say pleasure.
If there was enough of the old free blood left in the King's thanes to redden their cheeks, that was all there was. But while they stood in silence, a mutter ran like a growl through the ranks of yeomen; the gaze they bent upon their leader had in it almost the force of a command. He was young, their chief, too young for impassivity. Despite himself, his hands trembled with excitement.
"When he turned you out, like any drab of the streets!" bellowed old Anthony. "He never cared for you. He married you to revenge himself on me. He sent you back here for the same reason. He'll take your child, and break its spirit and ruin its body, for the same reason. The man's a maniac." But again, as on the night she came, he found himself helpless against Elinor's quiet impassivity.
Afterwards Warde remembered this impassivity. "If I do not act" Warde's voice trembled "I am damned as a traitor in my own eyes." John had never doubted that his house-master would act. As for creeping and crawling, can peaks be scaled without creeping and crawling? Never "You are not to speak a word of warning," Warde continued vehemently.
And all got smoothly, without a crease of the forehead, by means of an eyeglass, a cold manner and an impassivity which nothing foreign or domestic had ever disturbed. He had ability too, and great industry, but it was characteristic of him to reckon these as nothing in the scales against the eyeglass and the manner.
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