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"Come in, Belle!" A morose, slack-mouthed mulatto girl in ancient felt slippers sidled into the room. "Howdy, Mistah Dundee," Belle greeted him listlessly. "You got back, lak de papers said you would, didn' yuh? An' I ain't sayin' I ain't glad!
She listlessly extended her arm and filled it to the brim with Cyprian and a sweetened Oriental wine which I afterward found so bitter on the deserted Lido. "Here," she said, presenting it to me, "per voi, bambino mio." "For you and for me," I said, presenting her my glass in turn. She moistened her lips while I emptied my glass, unable to conceal the sadness she seemed to read in my eyes.
When they reached the tapestried chamber Pierre lighted a little copper lamp, and then bade the baron good-night, followed by Miraut as he retraced his steps to the kitchen; but Beelzebub, being a privileged character, remained, and curled himself up comfortably in one of the old arm-chairs, while his master threw himself listlessly into the other, in utter despair at the thought of his miserable loneliness, and aimless, hopeless life.
He was still perplexed and absent-minded when he somewhat listlessly walked out into the morning sunlight and started rather aimlessly down town; nor was he aware that he was passing the Van Astor until disturbed by a sharp "Harrup! Ahem!" snorted out as if by a hippopotamus that had just emerged from deep water, and looking around saw the object of his indignation advancing toward him.
Beyond this innermost space, round a basin of rock, through which the stream overflowed as from an artificial conduit, lay the wounded and exhausted, crawling, turn by turn, to the lips of the basin, and happy that the thirst of fever saved them from the gnawing desire of food. A wan and spectral figure glided listlessly to and fro amidst those mangled, and parched, and dying groups.
"I do want to see the Venus de Milo," said Polly, quite gone with impatience. "Oh, Adela, these paintings will wait." "Well, that old statue will wait, too," cried Adela, pulling her off into another gallery. "Now, Polly, Mademoiselle says, in point of art, the pictures in here are quite important." "Are they?" said poor Polly, listlessly.
I'm proud to know you. And I'm ashamed of myself that I can do nothing. Not now, anyway. Later, perhaps...." "No, I suppose you can't," she said listlessly. "But you'll be interested in seeing how the Zucker system works out; a half-page ad. in the Sunday edition gets a special signed and illustrated feature article, a quarter-page only a column of ordinary press stuff.
"The money." "The money?" That part of it seemed to count so little that for a moment he did not follow her thought. "It must be paid back," she insisted. "Can you do it?" "Oh, yes," he returned, listlessly. "I can do it." "I would make any sacrifice for that!" she urged. He nodded. "Of course." He sat staring at her in dry-eyed self-contempt. "Do you count on its making much difference?"
"And it has been a pleasure to see you again." Thus, in the kindness of her heart, she assisted him to cover his retreat, for it was a strange and somewhat awful experience to see Mr. Cecil Grainger discountenanced. He glanced again, as he went out, at the chair in which he had been forbidden to sit. She went to the piano, played over a few bars of Thais, and dropped her hands listlessly.
"I'd rather like to go there to see what there is there," observed Berkley. "Where?" "Where they're going wherever that may be and I think I know." He glanced absently at his letter again. "I've sold some stock all I had, and I've made a lot of money," he said listlessly. Stephen dropped an impulsive hand on his shoulder. "I'm terribly glad, Berkley!
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