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He had vaulting ambitions and pretensions, literary and otherwise, having by now composed various rondeaus, triolets, quatrains, sonnets, in addition to a number of short stories over which he had literally slaved and which, being rejected by many editors, were kept lying idly and inconsequentially and seemingly inconspicuously about his place the more to astonish the poor unsophisticated "outsider."
At the last moment, however, she dashed up to the church with the elan of a triumphant general, bearing her husband captive in the tonneau, and no less a person than Gunther, the distinguished sculptor, on the seat beside her. "I know you did not ask him, but he's so handsome I thought he ought to be here," she whispered inconsequentially to Mary after the ceremony.
The Arden magic was quite gone by this time. He was scowling a little and thrust out his upper lip in a way Tony did not care for at all. It occurred to her inconsequentially that he looked a good deal like the wolf, in the story, who threatened to "huff and puff" until he blew in the house of the little pigs. She didn't want her house blown in. She wished Uncle Phil would come.
"My preservier!" says the lady, a little inconsequentially, while her fingers are lifted to the mask and saluted with such a smack as elicits a "hooray!" from some disrespectful urchin at the back of the pit. "To presurrve beauty from the jeer of insult, the grasp of vie-olence is my duty and my prowfession.
Magsie bridled in becoming importance. "It is all very sudden," she said with the weary, patient smile of the invalid's wife, "but he won't go without me." And then, as Mrs. Gardiner began to give directions to the driver of her own car, which was waiting, she went on inconsequentially, and in a low and troubled undertone, "I didn't know what to do. Do do you think I'm a fool, Billy?"
Inconsequentially, his vagrant mind recalled that, below Miami, the Southern Cross is smudgily visible on the horizon, somewhere around two in the morning. And he wondered if he could descry it, if that luminous cloud were not in the way. Then, he knew it was not a cloud which shimmered between his eyes and the stars. It was a woman's filmy hair.
"There's a dear nook in old England where I hope " "You did get that mud off your leggings, I see," Beatrice remarked inconsequentially. "James must have worked half the time we've been here. They certainly were in a mess the last time I saw them." "Bother the leggings! But I take it that's a good sign, Miss Lansell your taking notice of such things." Beatrice returned to the landscape.
Until the evening closed round them they lived upon that one word 'love, in which they ever seemed to find some new sweetness. They brought it into every sentence, ejaculated it inconsequentially, merely for the pleasure they found in pronouncing it. Serge, however, did not think of pressing a second kiss to Albine's lips. The perfume of the first sufficed them in their purity.
"He could kill you to-day, and he let you go," Rina quietly returned. "That's a lie!" blustered Mabyn. "How do you know?" he added inconsequentially. "He tak' your knife from you. I saw it in his belt," said Rina. "And he let you go." Mabyn made no reply. "He say to me he not 'urt you, if you keep away from there," Rina went on. "Keep away!" Mabyn fumed. "This is my place!
Almost I wish now I had never told you about the tiresome and conceited creature's love-making... Besides," she added, inconsequentially, "I don't want to get married yet, and if I did marry you before we go to Scotland Don Carlos would pride himself it was to protect myself from him, and it would be worse and more dangerous if he made love to me as a married woman.
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