Chapter

 1     V|    of the singing-girls grow dumb before it."~ ~"Conduct me
 2  VIII|    afraid to look upon these dumb heads."~ ~"Then cover them
 3    IX|   whole Council had remained dumb for more than a quarter
 4    IX|     hour. "Are ye all struck dumb then that ye give me no
 5    IX|   him. It was, as it were, a dumb curse - a dumb, overpowering
 6    IX|    it were, a dumb curse - a dumb, overpowering spell, which
 7    IX|       his lips suddenly grew dumb, and there for a few moments
 8    IX|      the pulpit.~ ~"'Tis the dumb curse of Achmed!" whispered
 9     X| amidst the stillness of that dumb moment, from the highest
10  XIII|  woman's mind - a species of dumb monomania which is only