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Scythrop grew every day more reserved, mysterious, and distrait; and gradually lengthened the duration of his diurnal seclusions in his tower. Marionetta thought she perceived in all this very manifest symptoms of a warm love cooling.
"I've always loved Donald, Mr. McKaye. Most people do; so I have not regarded it as sinful on my part." "You are abandoning him of your own free will " "Certainly. I have to. Surely you must realize that?" "Yes, I do. I have felt that he would never abandon you." He opened and closed his big hands nervously, and was plainly a trifle distrait.
Sly called to know if she would condescend to meet the unhappy youth, she said in rather a distrait manner, that she wished him every happiness; that she had the highest regard and respect for him; that she besought him not to think any more of committing the dreadful crime which would have made her unhappy forever; but that she thought, for the sake of both parties, they had better not meet until Mr.
At the same time, while she evidently enjoyed his companionship, Van Berg observed that she did not seem to specially crave it; nor in truth did he find himself when away from her "distrait," vacant, and miserable, as was manifestly the case with his friend.
In a little while he pushed the paper to one side, and began feeling idly in a pocket of his vest. His mood was distrait, and in a moment he produced something that glittered; something that made me start and rivet my attention upon him. The something was a broad gold ring. He toyed with it for a moment, apparently wholly absorbed. Then he slipped it upon the middle finger of his right hand!
'We had better return home, said Captain Cadurcis I wish they had not gone to Lavenza. 'But there is no danger? said Venetia. 'Danger? No! no danger, but they may get a wet jacket. They walked on; but Captain Cadurcis was rather distrait: his eye was always watching the wind; at last he said, 'I tell you, Venetia, we must walk quickly; for, by Jove, we are going to have a white squall.
"You couldn't splash about much.... You shave at that, I suppose." "I don't. One shaves. There's a better apartment he could have got for the same price, but manlike he didn't find it out till too late. What's this bedroom?... Yes, there's the bed." They stepped back into the sitting-room, and Carlisle, strolling aimlessly about, became a little silent and distrait.
She did not retreat from him, but looked half distrait, half entranced in his eyes. "Without music?" she asked. She was almost trembling. "You are music," he replied, her intense sense of suffocation seizing him. They moved a few paces to the left where there were no windows and where no one could see.
The Secretary of State could not understand why the Governor agreed in so half-hearted a way when he urged with eloquence the victim's speedy sacrifice. Finally, the august master of the house growing more and more distrait, he suddenly rose, and picking up the crumpled paper "Gentlemen, will you have the goodness to excuse me for five minutes?" he said.
At every moment he had to pause to shake hands and to listen to congratulations upon the size of his barn and the success of his dance. But he was distrait, his thoughts elsewhere; he did not attempt to hide his impatience when some of the young men tried to engage him in conversation, asking him to be introduced to their sisters, or their friends' sisters.
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