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This was totally unlike anything on Earth, though it might have been in keeping with the general casualness of the villages. Maybe the ritualistic routine of the Lobbies was driving those who could resist to the opposite extreme. Chris was the final witness. Matthews drew comment of Feldman's former crime from her, and Jake made no protest, though Wilson seemed to expect one.
It is true, I seem to have lost my serenity, I am self-conscious I am conscious of you." A delicious sensation of joy flowed through me, and the feeling of triumph began which is with me still. If she is conscious of me ! "Do you mind if I smoke?" I asked with complete casualness to hide my emotions. She shook her head, and I lit a cigarette.
And now, Pilot Haldgren, we've a ship outside, and, if you'd care to go back with us " And with equal casualness the blond Viking replied: "You came in search of us! You saw our signals! After all this time! Yes, we shall be glad to go back with we shall be glad yes "
And Miss Van Tuyn astonishingly had not resented this plain speaking. Mrs. Ackroyde, of course, had tried to find out something about Nicolas Arabian, but Miss Van Tuyn had evaded the not really asked questions, and had treated the whole matter with an almost airy casualness which had belied all that was in her mind.
Thus, she was home ahead of him and brushing her hair when he arrived. The parting of bed-going was usual, on the face of it, although he was almost rigid in his successful effort for casualness as he remembered whose lips had pressed hers last before his.
Fresh, immaculate, yet virile in his light suit and silk shirt with red stripes, he was seated at his desk engaged in turning over some papers in a drawer. He kept her waiting a moment, and then said, with apparent casualness: "Is that you, Miss Bumpus? Would you mind closing the door?" Janet obeyed, and again stood before him. He looked up.
"Who?" asked Mary, although she had already seen the envelope, and knew exactly what George meant. And her voice also was unnatural in its attempted casualness. "The old cock," said George, beginning to serve bacon. "Oh!" said Mary, coming to her chair, and beginning to dispense tea.
"It took us all day though we half killed the brutes.... Hello, Jinny, did you bring the things?" With light casualness he accepted her appearance on the scene. That glitter in his bright hazel eyes was not for that. "Come in, both of you," he called, plunging after his men.
Beardsley knew he was being stared at and of course liked it, and probably would not have exchanged places with anybody there, not even with Carolus-Duran when, splendidly barbered, in gorgeous waistcoat, and with an air of casualness, the cher maître et président strolled into the restaurant at the supreme moment, carefully chosen, all the crowd there before him, their breakfast ordered, their first pangs of hunger stilled, and their attention and enthusiasm at liberty for the greeting he counted upon, and got.
"And Dale er Dawson?" "Left before I came downstairs, sir," the Colonel answered. "What is it, Bob? Tell me!" Bob's eyes passed the Colonel and rested on the drive up which he had just come. With an attempt at casualness he said: "That Potter fellow did more yesterday than I guessed."
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