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She was remarkably uncommunicative about herself, and she was too quietly independent of all advice from experienced persons who understood the duties of a sick-room but with these drawbacks, she was a good nurse, and she never gave either Lady Glyde or Mr. Dawson the shadow of a reason for complaining of her.
Ever since his arrest Duncan had been sullen and uncommunicative. He was evidently crushed by the sudden and surprising turn which affairs had taken. In the moment of his triumph he had fallen, and when he fancied himself the most secure, defeat and detection had overtaken him.
Rest, as a village, was only too glad to be rid of Leach's long detested presence to care anything at all as to his further occupations or future career, and only Bainton kept as he said 'an eye on him. Bainton was a somewhat curious personage, talkative as he showed himself on most occasions, he was both shrewd and circumspect; no stone was more uncommunicative than he when he chose.
Sometimes when the longing to see her again would come upon him, he would have talked of her to his native wife, but he was by nature an uncommunicative man, and the thought of how Doris must feel her loneliness touched him with remorse and made him silent. Another year passed, and matters had gone well with Brantley.
But, sensible of his own weakness, he is anxious at such times to withdraw into solitude: and his domestics in general know nothing of him, but the uncommunicative and haughty, but mild, dejection that accompanies every thing he does." I have stated the narrative of Mr.
Fortunately for Philip there lived in the village an old waif, a scholarly oddity, uncommunicative, whose coming to dwell there had excited much gossip before the inhabitants got used to his odd ways.
"No wonder you're feeling a bit savage! What are you going to do now?" Dick faced him, grimly uncommunicative. "Oh, talk, I suppose. What else?" "And you're taking Juliet?" pursued Saltash. "Have you any objection?" said Dick sharply. "None," said Saltash smoothly. "She is your wife, not mine perhaps fortunately for her." He threw a gay glance at Juliet. "Are you ready, ma chère?
The professor than ventured to sound Dame Hansen on the subject, but she was so uncommunicative that he was obliged to abandon all hope of obtaining any knowledge of her secret until some future day. As Sylvius Hogg had predicted, the letter from Help, Junior, reached Dal on the morning of the thirteenth.
Otherwise one of the hosts should devote himself to the business of promoting talk with the uncommunicative but no less interesting person. A wise hostess will consider this matter of seating guests in connection with selecting and inviting them. It is, therefore, one of the subordinate and purely mechanical processes of the real art of amalgamation.
It boasts of a sanded parlour, with a bar at one end, looking on the street; and another sanded parlour, darker and colder, with an empty bird-cage and a tricolor subscription box by way of sole adornment, where we made shift to dine in the company of three uncommunicative engineer apprentices and a silent bagman.
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