But Fernand, instead of responding to this amiable gesture, remained mute and trembling.

但弗尔南多对这个友好的表示毫无反映，依旧象一尊石像似的一动也不动。

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Yes, a few journalists, including me, have shed some light on how they managed to build and pass along such Brobdingnagian wealth from one generation to the next and the next. (Currently, 10 members of the Pritzker clan, including Penny, are individually rich enough to be on the Forbes 400 list.) But the family has remained largely mute on the subject.

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Arty had hoped Jimmy Denton would call, but after his conversation with Meredith, despite his importuning eyes, the stolid black machine remained mute.

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