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Trevignac came up, and in a few minutes Androvsky reappeared. The two men gazed at each other for an instant. Then Domini introduced them, and they all sat down to dinner. Conversation was uneasy. Androvsky was evidently ill at ease; Trevignac was distrait at moments, strangely watchful of his host at other moments.
They all joined in the discussion of the event except Paula, who sat distrait and silent, gazing into the fire, and Barry, who lay, drowsy and relaxed, on a blanket not far from her side. "You ought to go to bed," said Paula at length in a low voice to him. "You need a good night's sleep." "I'm too tired to sleep," said Barry. "I feel rather rotten, in fact.
FLORRY: And me? LYNCH: Hoopla! STEPHEN: The fox crew, the cocks flew, The bells in heaven Were striking eleven. 'Tis time for her poor soul To get out of heaven. Allow me. We're square. I could kiss you. Deep as a drawwell. BLOOM: This is yours. STEPHEN: How is that? Les distrait or absentminded beggar. STEPHEN: Lucifer. Thanks. Why pay more? BLOOM: I will but is it wise? Six. Eleven.
Holt's nightly bezique, which he played with Susan, did not seem to be going as well as usual, and elsewhere conversation was a palpable pretence. Mr. Spence, who was attempting to entertain the two daughters-in-law, was clearly distrait if his glances meant anything. Robert and Joshua had not appeared, and Mrs.
And all the while, from beneath level brows, her dark, distrait eyes were wandering from the signal officer to the sleeping major of artillery, to the aide snoring on the sofa, to the trumpet vines hanging motionless outside the open window. But all she really saw was Captain West. He appeared somewhat young and thin, his blond hair and mustache were burned hay-color.
Sartoris felt quite guilty, and rather repented her of having volunteered to join Captain Bloxam's party; but when the gentlemen made their appearance, Lady Mary was doomed to be made once more uncomfortable by the proceedings of her first-born. She listened in somewhat distrait fashion to a flood of anecdote and small-talk that Mr.
Uuuuuuu! faint, nervous, distrait, horn of the free night riders journeying to the tall towns where were laughter and banners and the sound of bells Uuuuu! Uuuuu! the world going by Uuuuuuu! fainter, more wistful, gone. Down here there were no trains. The stillness was very great. The prairie encircled the lake, lay round her, raw, dusty, thick. Only the train could cut it.
A moment later, he was lifted clear of the table by an impact that flung him against the wall a sodden, inert heap with the last ray of dazed consciousness gone. A metamorphosis had taken place in Vernon Halstead. He was distrait and mooned about the house, getting in people's way and apologizing with an air of such profound abstraction that the family were moved to comment.
Either the excitement of the child may pass all bounds and end in tears and so-called naughtiness, or the unfamiliar surroundings may leave him distrait with a strange sense of unreality and unhappiness.
She might well have been the victim of hysterics, but she was only distrait, pensive and gently smiling, with the smile of a good heart. Smiling with her had ever taken the place of conversation. It was an apology for not speaking when she could not speak what she felt.
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