This utterance the full significance
of which it was not at all likely that
Billy took in, nevertheless caused him
to cast turn a wistful interrogative look at
toward the speaker, a look in its dumb expressiveness not unlike
that of which
a dog of generous breed might turn upon
his master seeking in his face some
elucidation of a previous gesture
ambiguous to its the canine intelligence. Nor was
the same utterance without marked effect
upon the three officers, more especially
the soldier. Couched in it seemed to them
a meaning unanticipated, involving a
of which it was not at all likely that
Billy took in, nevertheless caused him
to cast turn a wistful interrogative look at
toward the speaker, a look in its dumb expressiveness not unlike
that of which
a dog of generous breed might turn upon
his master seeking in his face some
elucidation of a previous gesture
ambiguous to its the canine intelligence. Nor was
the same utterance without marked effect
upon the three officers, more especially
the soldier. Couched in it seemed to them
a meaning unanticipated, involving a
This utterance the full significance
of which it was not at all likely that
Billy took in, nevertheless caused him
to cast turn a wistful interrogative look at
toward the speaker, a look in its dumb expressiveness not unlike
that of which
a dog of generous breed might turn upon
his master seeking in his face some
elucidation of a previous gesture
ambiguous to its the canine intelligence. Nor was
the same utterance without marked effect
upon the three officers, more especially
the soldier. Couched in it seemed to them
a meaning unanticipated, involving a
of which it was not at all likely that
Billy took in, nevertheless caused him
to cast turn a wistful interrogative look at
toward the speaker, a look in its dumb expressiveness not unlike
that of which
a dog of generous breed might turn upon
his master seeking in his face some
elucidation of a previous gesture
ambiguous to its the canine intelligence. Nor was
the same utterance without marked effect
upon the three officers, more especially
the soldier. Couched in it seemed to them
a meaning unanticipated, involving a
Transcribed by: John Bryant