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This was not difficult, as the lake was a short oval in shape, and before he walked five or six hundred yards he came to the low stone wall or fence which appeared to completely surround the manor and over which he soon was desultorily leaning.
The sorrel mare stood placidly switching at the flies and suckling her gangling colt in the shady corner of the corral, and the chickens were pecking desultorily about their feeding-ground in expectation of the wheat that Jean or Lite would fling to them later on. Not a thing seemed unusual. Yet Lite stood just outside the stable, and the sensation that something was wrong grew keener.
By-and-by I made it an irregular habit to accompany him on these shepherdings; to join him in his simple midday meal of sour brown bread and goat-milk cheese; to talk with him desultorily, and study him the while, inasmuch as he wakened an interest in me that was full of speculation. For his was not an imbecility either hereditary or constitutional.
"How are you this morning, sir?" said Oak. "Yes, it is a wet day. Oh, I am well, very well, I thank you; quite well." "I am glad to hear it, sir." Boldwood seemed to awake to the present by degrees. "You look tired and ill, Oak." he said then, desultorily regarding his companion. "I am tired. You look strangely altered, sir." "I? Not a bit of it: I am well enough. What put that into your head?"
Would he ever understand and forgive? Meanwhile, the Herricks and their guests "Audrey's refugees," as Molly elected to describe the latter, herself included had gathered round the fire in the library, and were chatting desultorily while they awaited Elisabeth's return from her visit to Tim's sick-room. The casualties of the previous evening had been found to be augmented by two, since Mrs.
Young Escanes too was bidden to admire the contrivance, which it soon became evident was the invention of the Cæsar himself. The public still feeling dissatisfied watched desultorily for a while the doings in the imperial tribune. Then general interest was once more aroused, when the workmen slaves and legionaries having finished their preparations, hurried helter-skelter out of the arena.
Her fellow workers chatted desultorily of her as they had opportunity, and complacently thanked their gods that they were not as she with reason. Perhaps, a very few were kindly hearted enough to feel a touch of sympathy for this ruin of a life. Of such was Smithson, a member of the executive staff, who did not hesitate to speak his mind, though none too forcibly.
Here she desultorily searched for argument, and found it; but the application of her author's philosophy to the marriage question was an operation of her own, as unjustifiable as it was likely in the circumstances. It was an open question, so far, whether her own happiness should or should not be preferred to that of others.
The dance was not timed to begin for half an hour or more, but the members of the house-party had congregated together at the upper end of the room and were chatting desultorily. Sir Philip Brabazon and Tony were included amongst them, in addition to a couple of pretty girls, nieces of Lady Susan, and three or four stray men who had been invited down to swell the ranks.
While the furze-gatherers had desultorily conversed thus Eustacia's face gradually bent to the hearth in a profound reverie, her toe unconsciously tapping the dry turf which lay burning at her feet. The subject of their discourse had been keenly interesting to her. A young and clever man was coming into that lonely heath from, of all contrasting places in the world, Paris.
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