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Gayes, if he calls to see me, that I have been detained in the city, and shall not be back." The man took down the message. Philip strolled out once more into the streets, wandering aimlessly about for an hour or more. By this time it was nearly one o'clock, and, selecting a restaurant, he entered and ordered luncheon.
Either one stayed in the village, like a lodged stone, or one made random excursions into the world, across the world. It was all aimless and purposeless. So he had stayed a while with his father, then he had gone, just as aimlessly, with a party of men who were emigrating to America.
It was she whom I came to know as Madame du Maine, a daughter of the proud and princely Condes. Following her, weeping bitterly, came the sweet maid who had spilled the tray of flowers on me at the door. I stepped back into an alcove, lest, perchance, she look behind, and aimlessly I straggled out into the gardens as best I might.
He may have wished to hide his love for a wife who held him in contempt . . . but surely such an object could have been gained at less sacrifice, and with far less trouble than constant incessant acting of an unnatural part. She looked round her quite aimlessly now: she was horribly puzzled, and a nameless dread, before all this strange, unaccountable mystery, had begun to seize upon her.
"We've never gone in for any criminal business here," he said, after long reflection, while he continued to scribble aimlessly, "but, of course, we're in touch with the people who take it up." "I thought you might be." "But it's only fair to tell you that if your motive is to save time for our friend in question " "That is my motive the only one." "Then you could get in touch with them, too."
More than likely, she supposed, this man was some friend of her father who had recognized the name. She lingered a few moments at some of the other counters, aimlessly inspecting their offerings, and at last, with ten minutes left to reach the Ritz, emerged from the store.
He felt this, too, even after all these years had drifted aimlessly away, and the knowledge did not make him better. He grew morose and cynical, hating everybody who did not move in his own narrow circle. As one might suppose, he had not many friends, and his life was not a happy one. "How much misery there is in the world," thought Clemence, as she walked towards the school-house.
The steward brought a tall glass with ice, in which the newcomer mixed his drink. Then for quite a minute he sat silent, staring at the table, his fingers aimlessly rubbing into spots of wetness the water beads as they gathered on the outside of his glass. Suddenly he looked up. "I don't know how to begin," he confessed. "It's too confounded improbable.
Some of the passengers followed them and made sure that their things were put in the right places; most of them remained wedged among the earlier comers, or pushed aimlessly in and out of the doors of the promenades.
And the note was not even signed! Well, it appeared she had nothing further to fear from him; she could breathe much relieved. And now for her day of quiet rest. But when she had had her lonely lunch and her letters to her uncle and Mirko were written, she found herself drumming aimlessly on the window panes, and wondering if she would go out. She had no friends in Paris whom she wanted to see.
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