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"You haven't heard his latest, I suppose?" said the doctor, smiling. "What is it?" Sophia asked perfunctorily. "He wants to take to ballooning. It seems he's been up once." Constance made a deprecating noise with her lips. "However, that's not his surprise," the doctor added, smiling again at the floor.
"I injured it this morning in an encounter with your friend, Miss Clinton. I can hardly ask you to dress it. Thank you, just the same." "I know all that happened in Mr. Landover's cabin, but even so, I am ready and willing to do anything in my power to ease the pain you are suffering." She spoke calmly, dispassionately, almost perfunctorily. He shook his head.
As she chatted I answered her perfunctorily, while all the time I was asking myself why I had ceased to desire her, whether the old longing for her might not return was not even now returning? I might indeed go far afield to find a wife so suited to me as Nancy. She had beauty, distinction, and position. She was a woman of whom any man might be proud....
A long canoe wearily creeping up the glaring waters, minus a lookout, heedless of the ever-present danger of sunken tree trunks; propelled by three sun-blistered white men, one of whom wore a bandage around his head; steered perfunctorily by a pallid pirate whose left arm hung in a sling. Atop the right bank an unbroken, endless tangle of jungle growth.
That was of no importance, however; by then, he'd be beyond caring. One of his three ServSec Prole servants the slim brown girl who was his housekeeper and hostess, and also his mistress admitted him to the apartment. He kissed her perfunctorily and closed the door behind him. "You're tired," she said. "Let me call Nindrandigro and have him bring you chilled wine; lie down and rest until dinner."
"If there has been so much fighting about religion," said Genestas, "God must have built up the system very perfunctorily. Should not a divine institution impress men at once by the truth that is in it?" All the guests looked at the cure. "Gentlemen," said M. Janvier, "religion is something that is felt and that cannot be defined.
All she had to do was to keep track of the records and act as secretary to the Board of Directors. They never met now, except perfunctorily, to give Rimrock more money to spend. He came in as she sat there, dashing past her for some papers, and was dashing out when she spoke his name. "Oh, Mr. Jones," she said and, dimly noting its formality, he paused and questioned her greeting.
You know very well that you urged me to play." "You would have played without any urging." The wine came, but the joy of drinking it was gone; and they emptied the bottle perfunctorily. To Merrihew everything was out of tune now. Why, Kitty Killigrew was worth all the napoleons in or out of France. And Kitty had run away! What was the meaning of it? "And who is this Italian, anyhow?
Stockdale might have waited a long time to know the real cause of her sleeplessness, had it not happened that one dark night he was sitting in his bedroom jotting down notes for a sermon, which occupied him perfunctorily for a considerable time after the other members of the household had retired. He did not get to bed till one o'clock.
"You is shore a tenderfoot! Don' you-all know that blastin' scares all th' deer away from a minin' camp?" Bennington looked confused. "No, I hadn't thought of that," he confessed stoutly enough. "I kind of like to shoot!" said she, a little wistfully. "What sort of a gun is it?" "A Savage smokeless," answered Bennington perfunctorily.
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