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It wasn't my duty to pass it through till you shouted for signals. There ain't any schedule for bum freights. When they're late it's up to them." But for all Mr. Moss's contempt, and righteous indignation, the brakeman's charge had had its effect. Well enough he remembered the disjointed connecting rod, and he wondered how these "hold-ups" had contrived it under his very nose.
The visitor spoke quietly, his words were not audible, but the Captain's voice was raised with excitement. "The money, sir, the money that your cousin lent accommodation between gentlemen " So Julia heard incompletely, and then another disjointed sentence. "Do you take me for an adventurer, a sharper?
"Listen!" interrupted Sir George, "isn't that the hounds?" They listened. "They're hunting down by the back avenue! come on, Janet!" The motor-car took to flight again; it sped, soft-footed, through the twilight gloom of the back avenue, while a disjointed, travelling clamour of hounds came nearer and nearer through the woods.
Sebastian was tall, thin, somewhat disjointed in build, with large blue eyes, expressive of kindness, and intelligence; he was thoroughly well up in all the school subjects, and with the ripeness of the older boy, could infer the right thing even when he did not positively know it.
And with any disjointed and unconnected words which would prevent Nicholas from pouring forth his thanks, the brothers hurried him out: shaking hands with him all the way, and affecting very unsuccessfully they were poor hands at deception! to be wholly unconscious of the feelings that completely mastered him.
She seemed to sleep in spite of the jolting. The driver called back to him: "She took on terrible for a spell, Brother Rae. She's only jest now got herself pacified." He put his hand on her forehead and found it burning. She stirred and moaned and muttered disjointed sentences. He heard his father's name, his sister's, and his own, and he knew she was delirious.
She seemed innocent of any knowledge of the arrangement whereby Earl Reid was working for his reward. Mackenzie wondered if it could be so. "If dad'll buy me out then," she said, speculatively, doubtfully, carrying on her thought in a disjointed way. "It would be like him to turn me down, though, if I want to quit before my time's up.
In the third carriage a disjointed conversation was carried on in the intervals of looking out to see how far they had got, George remarking, "Well, it was really time that the poor old lady went." He didn't believe in people living beyond seventy, Young Nicholas replied mildly that the rule didn't seem to apply to the Forsytes. George said he himself intended to commit suicide at sixty.
The disjointed pieces of which Saint Evremond's writings consist are tedious and superficial, but they reveal a mind of much cultivation and considerable common sense. But his friend, Sir William Temple, excited by the French depreciations of antiquity, rushed into the lists with greater courage than discretion.
"How did you happen to fall into that ravine?" asked Jo. Agony was becoming light headed from the blow on her temple, and she answered in disjointed phrases. "Didn't fall in went down purpose. Micky fell in hurt shoulder I bandaged it fell trying to get out." Her voice trailed off weakly toward the end. "There, don't talk," said Dr. Grayson. "We understand all about it.
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