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"It would be nice," he said to himself, "if I could play all sorts of sweet melodies and think of Elsbeth all the while; I could then once more pour out my heart to her, and feel that I, too, was something in the world. But, then, am I in the world for myself alone?" he asked himself, absently laying hold of one of the crooked handles.
She did not answer him, but absently twisted the fringe of his buckskins in her fingers. "Ever since I have known what love is I have loved you, Jinny. It was so when we climbed the cherry trees at Bellegarde. And you loved me then I know you did. You loved me when I went East to school at the Military Institute. But it has not been the same of late," he faltered. "Something has happened.
I have always found that men who seek to do good to their fellows are never thanked. Have you noticed that? The human race is not grateful en gros. There is a little gratitude in the individual, but none in the race." "None," answered Etta absently. "It was so with the Charity League," went on the countess volubly. She paused and looked round with her feeble eyes.
What you saw is just a beginner. I might have bought a typewriter instead, but well, I just didn't." "They're mighty nice," commented Hiram, as she paused. "Yes, they made a fool out of me when I hit Frisco," she continued absently, "but my day's coming. I'm getting a toehold, as your Mr. Tweet says. I've rubbed off some of the Mendocino moss."
Again he poised his pencil and again he halted it in the air he needed inspiration. His gaze rested absently upon the pistol; absently he picked it up and began examining it. It was a cheap, rusted, second-hand thing, poorly made, but no doubt deadly enough at close range.
Out of the question.... There are no grounds. And I wouldn't if there were. I'm not going to have the thing made a show of in the courts. It's exactly what the Pinkertons would enjoy a first-class Pinkerton scoop. No, I shall let it alone. 'Is there no way of stopping it, then? I asked. 'Only one, he murmured, absently, beneath his breath, then caught himself up. 'I don't know. I think not.
As he absently tied the poker into hard knots with his nervous fingers, I watched him with some interest. Suddenly he turned toward me: "Do you think I'm handsome, young woman?"
All change!" Away yonder at the school near Toomsville, Miss Smith sat waiting for the coming of Zora, absently attending the duties of the office. Dark little heads and hands bobbed by and soft voices called: "Miss Smith, I wants a penny pencil." "Miss Smith, is yo' got a speller fo' ten cents?" "Miss Smith, mammy say please lemme come to school this week and she'll sho' pay Sata'day."
I had been speaking aside in a casual manner to my friend Amble, whose idea is that the Church is not represented with sufficient strength in the Commons, and who at once, as I perceived, grasped the notion of getting me to promote sundry measures connected with schools and clerical stipends, for his eyes dilated; he said: 'Well, if you do, I can put you up to several things, and imparting the usual chorus of yesses to his own mind, he continued absently: 'Pollingray might be made strong on church rates.
Blair absently, her mind occupied by her young daughter's large sophistication. "Johnny," said Ruth. She leaned half out the window as the red roadster shot thunderously across the rustic bridge and brought up sharply on the driveway below. With a shouted greeting she brought the driver's red-blonde head to attention. "Hullo where's the Bob?" Johnny grinned.
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