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George Powler was a heavy thick-set man, approaching middle age, with the air of a prosperous merchant, and with a somewhat shy and awkward manner; it seemed to Ida that he looked rather bored as he sat on one of the stiff, uncomfortable chairs, with the mother and daughter "engaging him in conversation," as they would have called it.
"Well," said Winifred, "if they were in London, perhaps; in London it's amusing to do nothing. But out there, of course, he'll simply get bored to death." Aunt Hester thought that it would be nice for him to work, if he were quite sure not to lose by it. It was not as if they had no money. Timothy, of course, had done so well by retiring. Aunt Juley wanted to know what Montague had said.
These unfortunates belonged to that class who are seldom seen in their places, but who are sometimes whipped in by zealous partisans, when important questions are under consideration, and a close vote may be expected. Their listless faces and sprawling attitudes proved clearly enough that they were reluctant and bored spectators of the scene.
I fully sympathize with the enamoured poet, but cannot condemn his friends who never saw his lady-love, and that is why I tremble lest my constant rhapsodies on India should bore my readers as much as Saadi bored his friends. But what, I pray you, is the poor narrator to do, when new, undreamed-of charms are daily discovered in the lady-love in question?
"And so women can really like one another without jealousy?" he questioned, laughing. "What is there to be jealous of?" she retorted quickly. "For after all one is one's self, you know, and not another. Gerty is beautiful and I am not, but her loveliness is as keen a delight to me as it is to her keener, I think, for she is sometimes bored with it and I never am.
"Convince me beyond all doubt that a woman can reason with her impulses, or even fathom them, and I will be in your debt." "Maybe but Ben is coming." He looked at me strangely. "You must find this very dull, Cassandra," said Ben, joining us. "Cassandra," said Desmond, "are you bored?" The accent with which he spoke my name set my pulses striking like a clock.
"Shall we dance?" I said. She smiled. "Monsieur is bored let us wait for my friends." I protested; but she was firm. And, so, when the others came up, Moore and I made our adieux. When we were out of hearing, Moore handed me a bit of paper. "This just reached me," he said. It was from the Secret Police and read: "S. is at Vierle Masque. She wears a gypsy dress of black and red.
"What are you going to do here, Marechal?" inquired Savinien. "You will be awfully bored." "Why? Once in a way I am going to enjoy myself and be a swell. You will teach me, Monsieur Savinien. It cannot be very difficult.
Half a mile above the rapids, we reached the partially bored tunnel through the island which divides the river, the rocks blasted out being used to fill up the embankment at the crossing. A few days before, this spot had been the scene of a narrow escape from drowning.
Then came a succession of long intimate evenings, she and Oliver left to their caprice, she and Oliver walking and driving together, wandering where their fancy took them in the springtime of city and country. She laughed sometimes at him, he seemed so dazed by the consciousness of utter possession. "You are sure you are not bored, darling?" he would often ask these first days.
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