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He strained up a superior smile. "Is passion are passions bound to be ignoble? But you're making the usual mistake " "How, John?" She put on a condescending patience. "Why, in fancying you women can guide a man by " "Preaching?" the girl interrupted. Her face had changed. "I know we can't," she added, abstractedly. John was trying to push his advantage. "Passion!" he exclaimed. "Passion?
Some one must once have cared for him, though he seems such a monster now." "Yet he cures people sometimes," he rejoined abstractedly. "Probably there's some good underneath. I'm going to try and see." "What is it. What is your business with him? Won't you tell me? Is it so secret?" "I want him to help me in a case I've got in hand.
She had allowed her cloak, whose fur trimming was well-worn, to slip from her shoulders, exposing her form to the waist; she trembled slightly in her tight-fitting dress, and golden tints played on her bare neck, which was almost hidden under the waves of her copper-colored hair. She had just taken off her suède gloves with a jerky movement and was abstractedly twisting them between her fingers.
Let the cannon roar: he heard it not. He was abstractedly contemplating those obscure depths in which he remained for ever seated; and where he had visions innumerable, though he saw nothing. One favourite and never-failing object, on these occasions, was to instruct the house in law.
"Why, yes," answered the other abstractedly, and still he remained by the sentinel, his hand, under the gay mantle of blue velvet, nervously fingering the hilt of a dagger that he dared not draw. It came to him that moments were passing, and that the thing must be done. Yet Aventano was a sinewy youth, and if the sudden stab he meditated failed him, he would be at the fellow's mercy.
"Yes?" questions the professor abstractedly, as she comes to a full stop. He has never seen her dressed like this before. She is all in black to be sure, but such black, and her air! She looks quite the little heiress, like a little queen indeed radiant, lovely. "Well when one is in mourning," says she somewhat impatiently, the color once again dyeing her cheek.
Arcubus, grappling with his tangled hair. "Do just try a drop or two of this Hollands of mine in that iced water; it is positively dangerous to drink it so," said an attentive boarder to Mrs. Silvernail, who certainly did look warm. "Absorbs oxygen readily, when brought to a red heat," said Mr. Arcubus, abstractedly, as he pulled at his long fingers and made their joints crack.
As he was generally engaged with business of his own when he went in or out of a room, I was not supposed to know that, on this particular occasion, he was making a flattering exception for me. I went on biting my lips abstractedly, with my head leaning against the casement. He cleared his throat emphatically, but what was that to me?
That on the book, is repainted so as to defy conjecture of its original action. But observe how the gesture of the true one confirms instead of overthrowing what I have said above. Cicero is not speaking at all, but profoundly thinking before he speaks. It is the most abstractedly thoughtful face to be found among all the philosophers; and very beautiful.
"Poor fellow!" said Cherry, taking the astonished Bly aside into the hall, "I don't believe he's half as bad as THEY said he is or as even HE makes himself out to be. But DID you notice mother?" Herbert, a little dazed, and, it must be confessed, a trifle uneasy at this ready acceptance of the stranger, abstractedly said he had not. "Why, it's the most ridiculous thing.
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