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It was Lady Despard's boast that she could listen to three conversations at once; but even Tara was surprised when she casually put out a hand and patted her knee. "Wise child. Better keep quiet till we start home." The hand was not removed. Tara covered it with her own, and further maddened the discomfited Dyán by saying, with her very kindest smile: "I'm so sorry. Don't be vexed." Vexed!
One morning he observed a delicate stem, with two curiously shaped emerald leaves, springing up from the centre of the mound. At first he merely noticed it casually; but presently the plant grew so tall, and was so strangely unlike anything he had ever seen before, that he examined it with care. How straight and graceful and exquisite it was!
"Let's ... r-run...." he faltered. Retief turned slowly, put his hands up. "I don't run very well with a knife in my back," he said. "Stand very still, Magnan, and do just what he tells you." "Take them out through the back," the cook said. "What does he mean?" Magnan spluttered. "Here, you " "Silence," the cook said, almost casually. Magnan gaped at him, closed his mouth.
Morgan's assertion that that person was always abroad unluckily dismissed from Leonard's mind the name the homoeopathist had so casually mentioned. But Helen was not disappointed when her young protector returned late in the day, and told her of his ill-success.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. Although he talks so little, he has quite a considerable vocabulary. This morning he used a surprisingly good word. He evidently recognized, himself, that it was a good one, for he worked in in twice afterward, casually.
She had hardly been interested in the whole affair, yet, when Mehmet Ali mentioned casually as soon as he was outdoors that he knew a man who would pay twenty pieces of gold for such a wife as Fanutza was, she became interested in the conversation. "I sell horses only," Marcu answered quietly. "Yet my friend and others from his tribe have bought wives.
Mutely eloquent, he turned back the lapel of his coat, exposing a small shield; at which Maitland glanced casually. "Very well," he consented, bored but resigned. "Fire ahead, but make it as brief as you can; I've an engagement in" glancing at the clock "an hour, and must dress." "I'll detain you no longer than is essential.... Of course you understand how keen we are after this man, Anisty."
He began to question her guardedly. "Do you know Rainharbour well?" he asked. "I live here," Beth answered. "Then I suppose you know every one in the place," he pursued. "Oh, no," she rejoined. "I know very few people, except my own, of course." "Which is considered the principal family here?" he asked. "The Benyon family is the biggest and the wickedest, I should think," she answered casually.
During the few minutes they had left, they casually discussed the chances of the senior space cadets against the enlisted guardsmen in a forthcoming mercuryball game, and then went up to the forward compartment of the Polaris, which served as a temporary observatory for Professor Sykes.
Ralph would have declined such a sudden meeting, but before he could think of any excuse, a portly, fine looking man, with flowing chin beard and dark, piercing eyes, stopped as he was sauntering by. "What is it, Sam?" he demanded, at the same time scanning Ralph casually. "Dish yer white boy, he astin' where 'bout he kin find yo', suh. I up an' tol' him, when bless de land! yere yo' is."
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