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I had the afternoon paper in my hands, and was running my eyes up and down the columns, not reading, but, in a half-absent way, trying to find something of sufficient interest to claim attention, when, among the money and business items, I came upon a paragraph that sent the declining thermometer of my feelings away down towards the chill of zero.
'Such as naturally comes to the tongue of an angry woman. The lover raged, Marcian listening with a sad, half-absent look. Their talk continued for a long time, arid, because of the lateness of the hour, Marcian stayed to sleep in his friend's house. Before sunrise on the morrow, Basil sent forth his invitations to all of the Anician blood in Rome.
"Well," answered Hector, a little puzzled, "I don't see how it can well be anybody's business but God's, for I'm sure no one else can lay a hand to it." "And what's your business, Hector?" asked Willie, in a half-absent mood. Some readers may perhaps think this a stupid question, and perhaps so it was; but Willie was not therefore stupid.
Presently he ceased to walk, reseated himself opposite the cavaliere, and fixed a half-absent gaze upon him. Trenta, who would cheerfully have undergone any amount of suffering rather than listen to the abominations he felt were coming, sat with half-closed eyes, gathered into the corner of the arm-chair, the very picture of patient martyrdom. The count contemplated him for a moment.
I must go just for half an hour. 'Why do you want to see her? Lydia asked, masking her curiosity with a half-absent tone. 'Oh, nothing to explain. I feel I want to talk, that's all. From time to time in her more difficult moments Lydia had felt a little hurt that the course of circumstances made no difference in Thyrza's friendship for Totty.
'Oh yes, was the half-absent reply. 'But surely there can be no doubt that she'll come. A hundred and fifty a year, without rent to pay. Why, that's affluence! 'The rooms I might occupy are in the home itself. Amy won't take very readily to a dwelling of that kind. And Croydon isn't the most inviting locality. 'Close to delightful country. 'Yes, yes; but Amy doesn't care about that.
But Lora Sayre had set her heart on that part for herself, so she said, in a half-absent way, "Yes, I think so." "You THINK so!" put in Jack Pennington. "I KNOW so! Patty would make a perfect 'Spirit of the Sea. I vote for her!" "I'm not a candidate," said Patty, who had divined Lora's wish. "I won't agree to take any special part until I know more about the whole thing."
This mood lasted until she was actually in the dressing-room, in a whirl of arriving girls. Then her courage began to ebb. She would watch them, as the maid took off her carriage shoes; pleasantly take her turn at the mirror, exchange a shy, half-absent greeting with the few she knew; wish, with all her heart, that she dared put herself under their protection.
"P'r'aps," said Angela, in a half-absent way as she brushed out her hair in Poppy's room, "p'r'aps Anna likes him so much already she can't like him better if she tries"; and Anna blushed as though Angela's chance shot had reached home. To Penelope the weeks that followed the great day were very sorrowful ones. Miss Row apparently could not forgive her.
"Well, after all, the girls can't propose! And I never saw him take any interest in a girl yet outside his own family, of course," added Lady Tranmore, hastily. "No he does certainly devote himself to the married women," replied Miss Lyster, in the half-absent tone of one more truly interested in her embroidery than in the conversation.
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