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The words he had prepared commonplace, to be sure, but carefully chosen flowed from his lips in a continual nasal stream. The girl answered absently, her feminine instinct groping after a reason for it all. She brightened when she saw her father at the doors and, saying good by to Eugenie, tripped up the steps, bowing to Eliphalet coldly.
A whim of her own, she explained to Rainham confidentially, as they came abreast in the narrowing path, while Mr. Dollond strolled a little behind, cutting down vagrant weeds absently with his heavy oak stick. "Hugh wanted a month's holiday; and I wanted" she dropped her voice, glancing over her shoulder with an air of mock mystery "yes, Mr.
"We miss your nimble fingers." So Sahwah fell to work among the bushes, absently stripping off the luscious red globes into the baskets, but her mind was far away and she took little part in the gay talk that went on around her. By and by, when the berries were all picked, Migwan said: "Let's make a basket of leaves and fill it with some of the largest berries and take it to Veronica."
He scarcely seemed the same man who, nearly two years before, had absently bestowed upon MacRae a dollar for an act of simple courtesy. He wore nondescript trousers which betrayed a shrunken abdominal line, a blue flannel shirt that bared his short, thick neck. And in that particular moment, at least, the habitual sullenness of his heavy face was not in evidence.
"But it is not I who am asking you to go and massacre a lot of pheasants," said Macleod; and he spoke rather absently, for he was thinking of the probable mood in which he would go down to Weatherill. One of a generous gladness and joy, the outward expression of an eager and secret happiness to be known by none?
"Not if people leave us alone and leave that railroad alone," replied the officer, backing his restive horse to the side of the fence as the troopers trotted past into the meadow, fours crowding closely on fours. "Not fight?" exclaimed the boy, astonished. "Isn't there going to be a battle?" "I'll let you know when there's going to be one," said the bandmaster absently.
"They'll all get there before we do," he said quickly. "Come!" The man looked down absently and kindly. "Nein, S'bastian." He patted the round head beside him. "There is no need that we should hurry." They passed out of the chapel, across the courtyard and into the open road. For half an hour they trudged on in silence, their broad backs swinging from side to side in the morning light.
I absently fumbled in my coat pockets, then guiltily dropped my hands. What a terrible thing habit is! "You may smoke," said the Bouguereau child who was grown into womanhood. Wasn't that fine of her? And wasn't it rather observant, too? I learned later that she had a brother who was fond of tobacco. To her eyes my movement was a familiar one. "With your kind permission," said I gratefully.
The shades of the evening deepened over the lagoon, clung to the sides of the Emma and to the forms of the further shore. Lingard laid the glass down. "Mr. d'Alcacer, too, seems to have been avoiding me," said Mrs. Travers. "You are on very good terms with him, Captain Lingard." "He is a very pleasant man," murmured Lingard, absently. "But he says funny things sometimes.
In one pocket of the money belt were his papers, among them the parole written out in Gainesville which could prove he had ridden with General Forrest’s command, far removed from any Arizona guerrilla force. But to produce that would change Drew Kirby to Drew Rennie, and that he did not want to do. "I rode with General Forrest, attached to General Buford’s Scouts," he said absently.
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