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Ashwood abstractedly turned away and entered her brother's room from the same balcony. The forgotten parcel, which looked like a roll of manuscript, was lying on his dressing-table. She gazed attentively at the handwriting on the wrapper and then gave a quick glance around her. A sudden and subtle change came over her.
Take it back;" and she tendered to him the little charm which she had always worn round her neck since he had given it to her. He took it abstractedly, without thinking what he did, and placed it on his dressing-table. "And you," she continued, "can you still keep that cross? Oh, no! you must give me back that. It would remind you too often of vows that were untrue."
Thomson that tended Effie, an' that saw the manager? 'Ay, 'twas him, replied his companion. There was a pause of silence after this response, the elder gazing abstractedly into the fire, the Minister surveying his ceiling, yet all the while out of the tail of his eye keeping watch on his elder.
To set out the arguments required to determine political action with such force and effect that they really should determine it, is a high and great exertion of intellect. Of course, all such arguments are produced under conditions; the argument abstractedly best is not necessarily the winning argument.
There was a general stir; men drained glasses, knocked out pipes, got up, murmured good-nights. Lanyard closed the American novel upon a forefinger, looked up abstractedly, rose, moved toward the door.
He was kneeling before a trunk, throwing books and pipes and socks and soft-toned silk shirts over his shoulder, looking for something which he seemed in a great haste to find. When his fingers, prying deep among his belongings, closed upon the thing he sought, he brought it up, frowning abstractedly. A black leather case, small and curved, opened when he unbuckled the confining strap.
Louis, with Fremont. Been at it ever since. Offered a commission in the reg'lar service lots o' times. Refused." "Why?" asked Brant demurely. "Too much West Point starch around to suit ME," returned Hooker darkly. "And too many spies!" "Spies?" echoed Brant abstractedly, with a momentary reminiscence of Miss Faulkner. "Yes, spies," continued Hooker, with dogged mystery.
But Marcia's heart leaped at the recognition of her presence, for she had begun to fear that she was dead, and that it was her spirit that was wandering about. She stooped and kissed her mother, who murmured abstractedly, "Yes, dear," never once looking up from the presents she was examining.
Muttering between his teeth, 'Good-morning! Bazarov went away to his room, while Madame Odintsov shook Arkady's hand abstractedly, and also walked past him. 'Good-morning! thought Arkady ... 'As though we had not seen each other already to-day!
As for history "Whatever may be the use of this sort of composition in itself and abstractedly," says Walter Bagehot, "it is certainly of great use relatively and to literary men. Consider the position of a man of that species. He sits beside a library fire, with nice white paper, a good pen, a capital style every means of saying everything, but nothing to say.
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