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For the stars are disconcertingly unconcerned when you have climbed to them, and so altogether unimpressed by your achievement that it is the nature of all china people to slink home again, precisely as your Rachel did and as Mrs. Charteris will assure you." "I?" said Anne. "Now, honestly, Rudolph, I was thinking you ought not to let him sit upon the grass, because he really has a cold.
Henry, perhaps impelled by an instinctive longing, gazed absently through the open door into the passage, and there, with two other girls on a settee, he perceived Geraldine! She smiled, rose, and came towards him. She looked disconcertingly pretty; she was always at her best in the evening; and she had such eyes to gaze on him. 'You here! she murmured.
"But that's beautiful," responded Mrs. Jameson. She smiled rather absently, for the first guest had just entered. It was Kent-Smith, the ex-magistrate, celebrated for his shrewd judicial humour, which, however, he had the good sense not to attempt to carry into private life. Although well on the wrong side of seventy, his eyes were still disconcertingly bright.
That double signature: those two names coupled together, discovered hidden in the book of hours; that relic in which the poor queen's desperate appeal had slumbered for more than a century: that horrible date of the 16th of October, 1793, the day on which the Royal head fell: all of this was most dismally and disconcertingly tragic.
When it was over, and the bridge players were established on the veranda, he drifted off to the smoking-room in an aimless, inconsequent fashion, and his hostess and accomplice saw him no more. She would have given a good deal to have witnessed his subsequent movements, but she would have been considerably disappointed had she done so, for Hone's methods were disconcertingly direct.
She ran from the room and in an incredibly short time reappeared unblushingly bare-necked and bare-armed in the evening dress that had caused her such dismay on Saturday. I jumped to my feet. There is no denying that she looked amazingly beautiful. She looked, in fact, disconcertingly beautiful. I found it hard to tell her to take the dress off again.
The girl's eyes were disconcertingly direct, her voice and her manner disturbed him with their judicial calmness, so at variance with the wildness he remembered. "Well, it's hard to explain," he said at last. "You're strange to this country, and you don't know all the ins and outs of things. It wouldn't do any good to you or anybody else, and it might do a lot of harm."
Marion assented. And the two tall figures strolled away across a little field toward a hanging wood on the edge of the hill. "Will she have him?" said Coryston to Marion Atherstone, looking after the departing figures. The question was disconcertingly frank. Marion laughed and colored. "I haven't the slightest idea."
She was eager, voluble, curious, and most disconcertingly oblivious of a possible sensitiveness in Lane. "Dare, you look like a dead one," she said. "Did you get shot, bayoneted, gassed, shell-shocked and all the rest? Did you go over the top? Did you kill any Germans? Gee! did you get to ride in a war-plane? Come across, now, and tell me."
"How soon d'ye think she'll be back?" "I I don't know, George. I should have thought she'd have been back before this." "I'll run round there," he said curtly. Agg was disconcertingly, astoundingly sympathetic. Her attitude increased his disturbance. When George rang the bell at No. 8 Alexandra Grove his mysterious qualms were intensified.
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