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'Why not sleep there to-night? I suggested carelessly. 'Sleep there! he repeated with a stare. 'But there are no hotels in that part of the world. 'Oh, bless you, yes! said I. 'You try the Blue Boar. You will find it almost as handy as sleeping in the booking-office, without nearly so strong a smell of kippers and dirt.
"And so, lads, you don't see no trail thar, eh?" said Boone, with a quiet smile, after having listened to various observations of the party, during which time he had been carelessly leaning on his rifle. "Why, I must confess I can see nothing of the kind," answered Henry. "Nor I," rejoined another of the party.
"It was all my own fault in so carelessly leaving the money. Some time, when less in a hurry than I am at the present moment, I will tell you how I came to make the blunder." Meanwhile the manager caught and interpreted correctly an imploring look from the Lieutenant. "Before you go, Miss Amhurst, will you permit me to introduce to you my friend, Lieutenant Drummond, of H.M.S. 'Consternation."
"If so, you must be quick, for I am just going out." "You don't seem to recognize me, Mr. Somerville," said Peg, fixing her keen black eyes upon his face. "I can't say I do," he replied, carelessly. "Perhaps you used to wash for me once." "I am not in the habit of acting as laundress," said the woman, proudly.
She had let down her abundant dark hair and then carelessly caught it up again and woven into it a garland of mistletoe. She smiled on Abner with a plaintive, weary lifting of her eyebrows; she appeared to be "creating atmosphere" again, just as on the afternoon when he had first seen her pouring tea. She seemed a long way off.
Then: "I regard it," he said very deliberately, "as a piece of spiteful mischief for which you deserve a sound whipping which it would give me immense pleasure to administer." Olga's pale face flamed scarlet. Her eyes flashed up to his in fiery disdain. "You!" she said, with withering scorn. "You!" "Well, what about me?" Carelessly, his hands in his pockets, Max put the question.
"After a long look at Armadale walking carelessly up the slope of the beach, Manuel drew back again under the shelter of the boat. He waited a moment, considering something carefully with himself, and put another question to me, in a whisper this time. "'When the vessel is manned, he said, 'and the Englishman sails from Naples, how many friends sail with him?
Evidently the lazy rascals had not burnt round the waggon; most probably, indeed, they had themselves carelessly fired the tall and resinous tambouki grass near by; the wind had driven the flames on to the waggon tent, and there was quickly an end of the matter. As for the driver and leader, I know not what became of them: probably fearing my anger, they bolted, taking the oxen with them.
Miss Spence herself was amazed and frightened, but he only smiled down carelessly upon her when she commanded him to return to earth; and then, when she climbed upon a desk to pull him down, he quietly paddled himself a little higher, leaving his toes just out of her reach.
"And you yourself are you in, or out, or not thinking about it, or-" "I?" returned Truesdale, carelessly. "I'm just a passer-by; I'm on my way to Japan." "Oh no; not Japan!" said the girl, quickly. "Japan, I assure you," he smiled. She caught herself. "To escape my uncle, then?" "Why that, in Heaven's name?" "You have offended him." "Dear me! How?" "By what you said at the house the other night.
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