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The Duke of Raincy-la-tour looked back at me with cool, clear eyes, smiling half aloofly, a little scornfully, as in the presence of danger the true Frenchman is apt to smile. "I don't think, Jean-Herve-Marie-Olivier," I reflected, "that you ever talked to the Germans except with bombs.

He owned a big residencia just yonder; you could catch the gleam of its white walls through a clump of cottonwoods, withdrawn aloofly from San Juan's street. Many men worked for him; he had big cattle and sheep ranches throughout the county; he paid well and loaned out much money. Also he had a beautiful wife and a truly marvellously beautiful daughter.

"Yes, I know what you mean," Miss Siegel assented, somewhat aloofly "People cry for joy," Miss Tevkin put in, non-committally "Yes, but they cry, all the same. There are tears," I urged "I had no idea you were such a cry-baby, Mr. Levinsky," the photographer said. "Perhaps you'll feel better when you've had dinner. But I thought you said this weather made you happy."

He stood over her in silence for a minute, his hands in his pockets. If he took them out he was afraid he might start stroking her, and she seemed to him to be exactly between the ages when such a form of comfort would be legitimate. If she were younger ... but she was a great girl now; if she were older ... ah, if she were older, Mr. Twist could imagine.... "You're overtired," he said aloofly.

Now that King Theodoret had withdrawn his sinister presence, young Perion spent some seven hours of every day alone, to all intent, with Dame Melicent. There might be merry people within a stone's throw, about this recreation or another, but these two seemed to watch aloofly, as royal persons do the antics of their hired comedians, without any condescension into open interest.

It was his duty to have married a woman of the type conventionally termed "good," whose blood and religious outlook were alike unimpeachable; and since he had lamentably failed in this respect, she never ceased to reproach him. Diane she regarded with chronic disapprobation, exaggerating all her faults and opposing her joy-loving, butterfly nature with an aloofly puritanical disdain.

Having done so and having drawn up one trouser's leg to save the crease, crossed the leg and at last put the pipe stem into his mouth, he regarded Florrie from the cool and serene height of his superior age. "If you refer to Mr. Rickard," he said aloofly, "I may say that he is not a friend . . . yet. I just met him this afternoon.

But what have I done, then?” she asked, tightening her reins, and making her horse fidget a foot or two farther away. “You have begun to be a most adorable friend to a most unfortunate man.” Still Lady Alicia looked at him a little dubiously, and only said, “I—I hope I’m not too friendly.” “There are no degrees in friendly,” he replied. “There are only aloofly, friendly, and more than friendly.”

I felt as though encased and insulated, in some curious way, from the everyday life about me. And this mood possessed me all through that day. Through all the customary bustle of an ocean liner's departure, I moved slowly, silently, aloofly, as a somnambulist. It was a singular outsetting, this start upon my 'way out.

It amused him that he'd been more or less adopted by the lady Kelly and her son Haley, one of the young warriors in training. Like the rest of the clan, Haley had been aloofly superior at first the typical Sandeman reaction Medart expected from those who hadn't been around Imperials much but his stubborn determination to learn in spite of what the lessons did to him had broken down that reserve.