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No wonder the poor creatures died, distracted as they were by the internal tumult of conflicting memories. But they must have suffered greatly; and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals may perhaps think it worth while to keep an eye even on the embryos of hybrids and first crosses. Five hundred creatures puzzled to death is not a pleasant subject for contemplation.
Jean, distracted and almost convinced on a sudden by his brother's blind vehemence, was leaning against the door behind which, as he guessed, their mother had heard them. She could not get out, she must come through his room. She had not come; then it was because she dare not. Suddenly Pierre stamped his foot. "I am a brute," he cried, "to have told you this."
Exactly as the Prophet arrived at his resolution the hall door bell rang violently, and Gustavus, who had slipped down before the Prophet in order to seek the traveller to Java in the servants' quarters, hurried into the hall in rather a distracted manner. "Stop, Gustavus!" said the Prophet. Gustavus stopped. The bell rang again.
"Then go back to your mountains! You are useless here. You will not even paint. Go where you belong!" "The mountains, the mountains!" sobbed the boy, under his breath. "Yes, I must go to them or my soul will go without me! Perhaps the kindlier spirits of the air will tell me where she is!" With a last distracted gesture he fled from the house and out into the street.
From the Indians of Tumbez he learned that the country had been for some time distracted by a civil war between two sons of the late monarch, competitors for the throne. This intelligence he regarded as of the utmost importance, for he remembered the use which Cortes had made of similar dissensions among the tribes of Anahuac.
The delicacy of the change in Martin's manner when called upon to answer the detective momentarily distracted Trent's appreciative mind. But the big man's next question brought it back to the problem at once. "About those drinks. You say Mr. Manderson often took no whisky before going to bed. Did he have any that night?" "I could not say.
B. The second part of the Preface showeth how the lad should be brought up in the fear of God and in reverence, that so he may attain grace, whereby he may be much strengthened in intelligent art. It falleth into six parts: 1. That he be kept moderate in eating and drinking, and also in sleeping. That he dwell in a pleasant house, so that he be distracted by no manner of hindrance.
Our attention is distracted for some time, and, upon looking again, we find that she has not moved, and impart the fact to Sandy, who looks steadily through his long spy-glass, evidently made up of several others; then, gazing intently over the top, he brings all hands to their feet by the cry of "Wrack!" For Sandy is a licensed "wracker."
"Why, would it cost money?" "It certainly would; two thousand or at least fifteen hundred. Give it to me to-morrow or even to-day, and to-morrow evening I'll send him to Petersburg for you. That's just what he wants. If you like, he can take Marya Timofyevna. There was something distracted about him. He spoke, as it were, without caution, and he did not reflect on his words.
"Alanna, you're the pride of me life," said her mother, kissing her. "That's all now, dearie. Sit down and rest." "Oh, but I'd rather go round and see things," said Alanna, and off she went. The immense hall was filled with the noise of voices, hammers, and laughter. Groups of distracted women were forming and dissolving everywhere around chaotic masses of boards and bunting.
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