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That done, she brought water and bandages, and stood by, absent-eyed and in silence, while Sexberga found his wounds and dressed them. It was the older woman who spoke first. "The fate of this maiden lies heavy on your mind, beloved," she said tenderly; "and I would have you know that my heart also is sorrowful.
However one can, if one's soul strains hard enough, dust and dream; darn and dream. Especially if one has a helpful lilt, rhythmic to dust-cloth's stroke or needle's swing, throbbing like a strain of music through one's head: Cosmos Cosmos! Cosmos Cosmos! Missy was absent-eyed at the midday dinner, but no sooner was the meal over before she feverishly attacked the darning-basket again.
She stood up, indifferent, absent-eyed, half turning toward the window; and, raising her hand, she carelessly brought the rebel strand of hair under discipline. "You said you were going to look up Gerald," she observed. "I am; now. What are you going to do?" "I? Oh, dress, I suppose. Nina ought to be back now, and she expects me to go out with her."
And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors' room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal. How to be friends with this boy without openly playing the mentor; how to gain his confidence without appearing to seek it; how to influence him without alarming him!
"Don't worry; I'll see that your check is not dishonoured; all you have to see to is yourself. Good-night, my boy." But Gerald could not speak; and so Selwyn left him and walked slowly back to his own room, where he seated himself at his desk, grave, absent-eyed, his unfilled pipe between his teeth.
By these signs MacRae knew that the fish had stopped biting, that it was lumpy by Poor Man's Rock. He knew there was work aboard. But he sat there, absent-eyed, thinking. He was full of understanding pity for his father, and also for Horace Gower. He was conscious of being a little sorry for himself.
Then she said: "This is a toast that our poor tyrant-ridden countrymen may dare to offer at any banquet under any flag, and under the very cannon of New York." She stood still, absent-eyed, thinking for a moment; then, looking up at us: "It is really two poems in one.
My pictures are all out of drawing; I must fit arms into their sockets the way hers fit! I must remember the modeling of her eyelids, too and that chin! and those enchanting hands " She looked up leisurely from her book, surveyed him calmly, absent-eyed, then bent her head again to the reading. "There is something the matter with me," he thought with a suppressed gulp.
So Sebert of Ivarsdale went to his tower unhindered; and the rest of the winter nights, while the winds of the Wolf Month howled about the palisades, he listened undisturbed to his harper; and the rest of the winter days he trod in peace the homely routine of his lordship, in peace and in absent-eyed silence.
Benton arrived, absent-eyed, preoccupied at first, then in a fidgety humour which indicated something was about to happen. It happened. "Could any lady get ready in time to take the noon train for Washington?" he asked abruptly. There was a startled silence; the call had come at last. Mrs. Rutherford said quietly: "I will go. But I must see my husband and children first.
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