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He followed close behind her: and was standing by her side, when she opened a door, and pointed into a room, telling him to take what he found there, and then go she cared not whither, so long as he went from her. She descended the stairs again, as he entered the room. There was a close, faint, airless smell in it. Cobwebs, pendulous and brown with dirt, hung from the ceiling.
He was young and strong; that meant a great deal; he had taken the desperate chances of Indian warfare many times before this, and the danger counted as nothing, save that it offered the possibility of preventing him from doing the one thing in life he now cared to do. What meant suffering to him, if he could but rescue Alice? And what were life should he fail to rescue her?
No one cared much for him because he was rather a fool, could not count one, two, three, and only drank, or ate, or slept, or lay around. Why care for such a person? Every one knows life for some is brighter than for others. But Ivan was good-hearted and quiet. Ask of him a belt, he will give a kaftan also; take his mittens, he certainly would want to have you take his cap with them.
"I wonder how much they would care for her if she hadn't been born into one of the sacred old families, and hadn't money to boot!" cried Mrs. Stone, exasperated beyond endurance by this triumph of marital tactlessness. "I'd like to know what chance a poor girl has to turn people's heads " "Tut! tut! Brownie, you're jealous. You know there never was a town where people cared less about money "
He was dimly conscious of it, sitting there, conscious of its odd dangerousness. It had brought him to wreck and scandal once, but now now it should save him! He cared so much for Fleur that he would have no further scandal.
I looked at Pasinkov; his eyes, fastened, as it were, on the distance, shone with feverish brilliance. 'I loved her, he went on, 'I loved her, her, calm, true, unapproachable, incorruptible; when she went away, I was almost mad with grief.... Since then I have never cared for any one.... And suddenly turning, he pressed his face into the pillow, and began quietly weeping.
Just to show how little she cared for his company, Virginia left our party and strolled up to the Rim to observe the effect of moonlight on the mist that filled it. Our game of Put-and-Take was running along merrily when we heard a shriek, then another. We rushed out, and there was Dollar Mark Bull chasing Virginia around and around among the big pine trees while she yelled like a calliope.
He expected that Firm would say, "Five hundred thousand dollars" which was about her value, I believe and Uncle Sam wanted me to hear it; not that he cared a single cent himself, but to let me know what Firm could do. Firm, however, was not to be led into any trap of that sort. He knew me better than the old man did, and that nothing would stir me to jealousy, and he quite disappointed the Sawyer.
And then and then one can almost laugh to think one ever cared about them." Her voice throbbed with feeling. She had lifted the veil for a moment to salve the other woman's bitterness. And Mrs. Bathurst realized it, and was touched. "Ah! You've suffered," she said. Isabel bent her head. "But it is over," she said. "I married a man who, they said, was beneath me.
The cause of my own ruin had been the grounding of a steam-boat; the same accident happening again set me on my legs. Just as we turned the southern point of Illinois, we buried ourselves in a safe bed of mud. It was so common an occurrence, that nobody cared much about it, except a Philadelphian going to Texas; he was in a great hurry to go on westward, and no wonder.
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