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"What's the matter between you and Bill Farnsworth, Patty?" she asked without prelude of any sort. "Nothing," said Patty, as she took the hairpins from a long shining strand of hair. "There is, too. He asked me why you were so cool to him." "He did! Well, I'm sure I don't know what he meant, for I wasn't cool to him, or anything else. I treated him politely, as I would any casual friend."
And often, when she stopped on the pavement and exchanged a word or two with some casual stranger, she scarcely knew what she said, or to what kind of man she was speaking. She was possessed by one thought, the thought of Julian and of his danger.
George stood near at first and looked down at her bent head. It was impossible not also to take in her small fine ear and the warm velvet white of the lovely little nape of her slim neck. He took them in with elated appreciation. He was not subtle minded enough to be aware that her reply to a casual remark he had made to her at dinner had had a remote effect upon him.
She takes another's work for hers, even when it is produced by a stranger to her race. We now come to the tragic side of this confusion. Wishing to have subjects for study within my daily reach and to save myself the trouble of casual excursions, I collect different Epeirae whom I find in the course of my walks and establish them on the shrubs in my enclosure.
Till then I had been uncertain of her nationality, though I had had my suspicions of it, for the Anglo-Saxon walk differs from the gait of the southern nations; but on this slender introduction we dropped into conversation, and spoke in English of those desultory matters which one does chat upon to a casual hotel acquaintance.
I was across Lac Tremblant and in the shelter of the La Chance shore! There is no good in denying that for five minutes all I did was to sit back and breathe. Then I lit my pipe, that was dry because it was inside my shirt; bailed the unnecessary water out of the canoe and the immediate neighborhood of my legs; and, without meaning to, turned a casual eye on the shore at my right hand.
Behind each little gesture loomed a yet larger one, the scale increasing strangely, till his thoughts climbed up them as up a ladder into the region where her ideas lay naked before casual interpretation clothed them. Those, he reflected, who are rich in ideas, but find words difficult, may reveal themselves prodigally in gesture.
"I wouldn't for the whole world get you into trouble. It's just a little, simple thing that I want you to find out from some one in the office." "I don't know any one in the office." "But you could find out some one who did? For instance, you know that Mr Oliver who illustrates? I've seen his things in the Loadstar. You could ask him in a casual, off-hand manner without ever mentioning our name."
The least slip of a rope may cause disaster, and no matter how careful the attendants are, the performers themselves always give at least a casual look to their apparatus. "All right, Harry?" asked Joe of one of the riggers who had charge of putting up the platforms and the big swing. "Sure, it's all right, Mr. Strong!" was the answer. "I should say so!
Dinner seems to have come to them less by forethought than by the operation of divine chance; and when there was no meat provided for the entertainment of casual guests, the table was supplied with buns, procured by Shelley from the nearest pastry-cook.
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