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What could she say to him? "Well?" he said, after a moment. "The end of the story is it written yet?" She shook her head dumbly. Curiously, the throbbing anger had left her heart at the mere sound of his voice. He waited for about three seconds, then knelt quietly down beside her. "Say," he drawled, "I kind of like Raffold Abbey, sweetheart. Wouldn't it be nice to spend our honeymoon there?
He counted the stalks in each hill of corn and computed the number of stalks in a whole field. "It should yield twelve hundred bushels of corn, that field," he said to himself dumbly, as though it mattered to him. He pulled a little handful of cornsilk out of the top of an ear of corn and played with it. He tried to fashion himself a yellow moustache.
It was scoffing contemptuous but she could not tell at what it scoffed. He had not turned toward her. "I'm sorry," she repeated. "Ann will be sorry. She's so " He turned upon her hotly. "Katie, quit lying to me. I know there's something you're not telling. I've suspected it for some time. Now don't get off any of that 'nervous trouble' talk to me!" She stood there dumbly. It seemed to enrage him.
Gathered into Madame's embrace, Mary Virginia clung to her old friend dumbly. Madame had but one question: "My child, have you told John Flint and my son what this trouble of yours is?" "Yes; I had to, I had to!" "Thank the good God for that!" said my mother piously. "Now we will go home, dearest, and you can sleep in peace you have nothing more to worry about!"
Now would I have spoken but found no words, for in this moment I knew that Sir Rupert was surely dead. Dumbly I watched the passionate labour of her dexterous hands, saw them pause at last to clasp and wring themselves in helpless despair, saw the three gentlemen, obedient to her word, stoop and lift that limp form and bear it slowly away towards Deliverance Sands and she going beside them.
They laid her down upon the pillow between them, and then for many seconds Wyndham stood, closely watching, almost painfully intent. Piers waited dumbly, afraid to move, afraid to speak. The doctor turned to him at last. "What about that meal you spoke of? Shall we go down and get it?" Piers stared at him. "I am not leaving her," he said in a quick whisper.
'T warn't nateral, an' she such a soft little thin'!" Billy passed his rough hand over his dry, hot lips. "Then you come, an' she slipped her moorin's." The two were staring dumbly, sufferingly, at each other. Billy saw the agony he had awakened and his heart sank within him. After a moment of silent doubt, Janet arose and stood in front of Billy, laying her cold hands upon his shoulders.
"What what do you think you're talking about?" he gasped. Miss Fanny looked up innocently. "About the report of Lucy Morgan's engagement to Fred Kinney." George turned dumbly to his mother, and Isabel shook her head reassuringly. "People are always starting rumours," she said. "I haven't paid any attention to this one." "But you you've heard it?" he stammered.
In some way suggestions of the unusual had passed about, and this day their number was greatly augmented. Just what they anticipated they did not know; they did not care. Restless, athirst for excitement, they had dumbly responded to the influence in the air and come.
The remarkable fact is that a nation which had submitted in passivity to absolute ignorance of the diplomatic exchanges, waiting dumbly the decision that should determine its fate, of which it could be said that a large number, perhaps a majority, were neutral at heart, suddenly overnight awoke to a realization of the political situation and rejected the prudent advice of their popular politician, denounced him, and inferentially proclaimed themselves for war.
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