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The end of the Mordaunt Prince story is that he soon grew too much for the widow, who has pensioned him off, and now he is drinking himself to death in Naples." "Emmy Oldrieve! Good God, is it possible?" cried Sypher, absently pushing aside the dish the waiter handed him. Rattenden carefully helped himself to partridge and orange salad. "It's not only possible, but unquestionable fact.
He made the tour of the studio several times, pausing now and then to turn a canvas about, apparently as if he would criticize it, looking at it but not regarding it, only absently turning one and another as if it were a habit with him to do so; then returning to the table he stirred the envelopes apart with one finger and finally separated one from the rest, bearing an official seal, and with it a small package carefully secured and bearing the same seal, but he did not open either.
Ben wanted her to say she would say it; or what viewpoint he expected her to take she would assume it. "Joe and I were helping Mrs. David," she submitted timidly, "and we came out to sit in the cool." "Don't be a hypocrite, Sally," the doctor said absently. Sally laughed with an effort to make the conversation seem all a joke, but she was puzzled and unhappy.
He looked at his daughter with a smile. "Not quite so bad as that, Nollie; but Mr. Fort is certainly subversive. I think perhaps he has seen too many queer sides of life." "I like him the better for that." "Well, well," Pierson answered absently. He had work to do in preparation for a Confirmation Class, and sought his study on getting in. Noel went to the dining-room to drink her hot milk.
The Countess frowned, and continued with emphasis, “I consider him one of the most agreeable and best informed young men I have ever met.” “Is he?” said Lady Alicia, absently. “I wonder, Alicia, you hadn’t noticed it,” her mother observed, severely; “you talked with him most of the afternoon.
Only the sly humor of Shinny had saved Roger from the monotony of the long haul through space. Roger absently flipped the scanner to its farthest range. He had been observing the planet Tara for several hours and knew its shape fairly well. But he suddenly jerked to attention. His hands trembled slightly as he peered intently at the scope. Finally he slumped back. There was no doubt about it.
"And to-morrow I'm going to begin to knit a woollen vest for you, that you can slip on before you come out. Good-night, dearest!" "Good-night," he said; and he opened the door of the cab for her and told the cabman her address; then rather slowly and absently he set out for the Garden Club. The first person he beheld at the Garden Club was Octavius Quirk of course at the supper-table.
All the prejudices of the man's illiberal code arose snarling, but he stifled their expression and, abandoning the immediate subject, turned absently back to the title page. "'Stuart to Conscience," he read reminiscently. "This book must be quite an old keepsake." The Virginian's name had not been recently mentioned between them.
Jack lay with his head on his arms, looking out on the river; Maurice was drawing beech leaves in his note-book, the discontent all gone from his face; Belle absently plaited the hem of her dress; while Katherine twisted a wreath of honeysuckle around her hat. "Is that all?" Belle asked, after a little. "That is the story; then I was telling Maurice about the meaning Cousin Louis found in it."
Oh, and should there only be eleven of the Whiteley Greek-borders?" she asked presently. "One was sent home with a cake, dear, we had too much cake." "We always do, somehow," commented Rosemary, absently, and there was a silence. The last speaker broke it presently, with a long sigh.
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