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His dress consisted of a black velveteen shooting-jacket, or rather short frock, with a broad leathern strap at the waist, loose white trousers, and a foraging cap, which he threw carelessly on the table as he wiped his brow.
He bore the ever-increasing horror as long as he could, then better starve and have done with it than die like a dog from sheer fright! he stepped cautiously, softly, starting at the crackle of the ice under his tread, off the curbstone into the street. So far he was safe. He kept his head low, and walked carelessly towards Third Avenue. When nearing the corner he determined he would look up.
She amused herself with the beads until dinner-time, bringing the strings to me now and then for my approval. My eyes are very much inflamed. I know this letter is very carelessly written. I had a lot to say, and couldn't stop to think how to express things neatly. Please do not show my letter to any one. If you want to, you may read it to my friends. Monday P.M.
The gentleman took it carelessly, looked at it, then said, in a tone of some interest: 'It's really a very good piece of work, Williams; it has quite a feeling of the romantic period. The light is admirably managed, it seems to me, and the figure, though it's rather too grotesque, is somehow very impressive.
Their raft was also, it was evident, carelessly put together; and as it drew nearer we saw that the men could with difficulty keep their feet on it for the wind by this time having caused the sea to get up slightly, it rocked from side to side. They were within half a cable's length of us, when the feet of one of the men slipped, and overboard he fell.
Or we might carry the reflection further, and remind ourselves that where the air is invigorating and the ground firm under the traveller's foot, his eye is quick to take advantage of small undulations, and he will turn carelessly aside from the direct way wherever there is anything beautiful to examine or some promise of a wider view; so that even a bush of wild roses may permanently bias and deform the straight path over the meadow; whereas, where the soil is heavy, one is preoccupied with the labour of mere progression, and goes with a bowed head heavily and unobservantly forward.
"Where on earth did you learn that?" he asked in an entr'acte. "At school in Paris." "And the mandolin?" "A parlor trick. You see, I'm not so useless, after all." Presently, when she sat beside him to rest, he brought out a pad and crayon and made a drawing of her in her cap and bells. He began a little uncertainly, a little carelessly, but his interest growing, in a moment he was absorbed.
She might even have gone out if she had wished, but she did not feel inclined. One day, while looking over some of her books which were lying on her table, she found a newspaper folded inside one of them. She took it and opened it carelessly, wondering what might be going on in that outside world of which she had known so little for so long a time. A mark along the margin attracted her attention.
"We could only but find six dindledums," said Bruno, putting them into my hands, "'cause Sylvie said it were time to go back. And here's a big blackberry for ooself! We couldn't only find but two!" "Thank you: it's very nice," I said. And I suppose you ate the other, Bruno?" "No, I didn't," Bruno said, carelessly. "Aren't they pretty dindledums, Mister Sir?"
She bowed, not carelessly as she had bowed to Darrell, but with a kind of exaggerated stateliness, not less girlish. "I never congratulate anybody," she said, shaking her head, "till I know them." Ashe opened his eyes a little. "How long must I wait?" he said, smiling, as he drew a chair beside her. "That depends. Are you difficult to know?"
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