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"Of course. I don't know that the other parties could insist on the original terms we can discuss that later; but, though it may be modified, the arrangement stands." His companion considered the matter dispassionately, as an abstract proposition.

The carriage drove to the Benson cottage; King helped Irene to alight, coolly bade her good-night, and went to his barracks. But it was not a good night to sleep. He tossed about, he counted every step of the late night birds on his gallery; he got up and lighted a cigar, and tried dispassionately to think the matter over. But thinking was of no use.

"Open one, Georgie." "The third to-day," said Mr. Pembroke, sententiously, as he obeyed. "I don't care. I don't see what business it is of yours." "Except to open them," he replied. "You'd have made a fortune as a barkeeper," she observed, dispassionately, as she watched the process. "He's made fortunes for a good many," said Chiltern. "Not without some expert assistance I could mention," Mr.

Bogardus remarked dispassionately. "And he's not quite twenty-four." "Very true. Well, I should send him into the woods for the sake of getting a little sense into him, of an every-day sort. He 'll take in sanity with every breath." "And you don't think it's too late in the season for them to go out?" There was no change in Mrs.

The minute passed in invective directed chiefly against the oars, the stretchers, the crutches, the boat generally and the helmsman in particular. At the expiration of that time, however, they all sat up facing aft, with their hands expectantly gripping the looms of their oars and profound gloom on every countenance. The coxswain contemplated them dispassionately.

"Was it not apparently to thwart him bear in mind I speak to you dispassionately and as a friend to refuse in the presence of the whole garrison this morning to account for your absence of last night, which might have been easily explained, had you been so disposed?" "But, my dear Mrs.

"That's big talk," commended the detective, apparently a little prepossessed; "and it's all to the good if you can back it up." He rose. "You don't mind my going through your pockets sure?" "Go ahead," P. Sybarite told him shortly. "To save time," Shaynon suggested dispassionately, "you might explore his coat-tail pockets first. It was there that I saw him put away the brooch."

Dora planted, weeded, and watered carefully, systematically, and dispassionately. As a result, her plot was already green with prim, orderly little rows of vegetables and annuals. Davy, however, worked with more zeal than discretion; he dug and hoed and raked and watered and transplanted so energetically that his seeds had no chance for their lives.

A little later, when her glance passed to the roof of the mill there was no perceptible change in her expression; and she observed dispassionately that the shingles which caught the drippings from the sycamore were beginning to rot.

Having read these, and thought over them dispassionately, spend some months yet among the sheep-walks of Cumberland; learn all you can from all the shepherds you can find, from Thyrsis to Menalcas. Do more, fit yourself in every way for a life in the Bush, where the philosophy of the division of labor is not yet arrived at. Learn to turn your hand to everything.