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Judd Jason lighted one, and began smoking reflectively. I gazed about the mean room, with its litter of newspapers and reports, its shabby furniture, and these seemed to have become incongruous, out of figure in the chair facing me keeping with the thoughtful figure in the chair facing me. "You had a college education, Mr. Paret," he remarked at length. "Yes." "Life's a queer thing.
But as he threw his arms behind his head, leaning back on them, Flaxman saw the eyes darken and the naïve boyish mouth contract, and knew that under all these brave words there was a heart which hungered. 'How strange! Robert went on reflectively; 'yesterday I was travelling, walking like other men, a member of society. To-day I am an invalid; in the true sense, a man no longer.
They sat down at opposite ends of the horsehair sofa, each reflectively watching the other. Mrs. Mosby shook her head. "He's getting on as nicely as could be expected. Fortunately, Dr. Withers was got hold of right away, last night." She was gazing dreamily at Mary Louise as though the latter were a creature of another world come vaguely intruding. There was a curious atmosphere of restraint.
"I'd really like your opinion," I said, "on rather a new salad I'm trying. Now would you not " "A salad?" Mis' Merriman repeated. "The chief," she said reflectively, "was very partial to all green salads. I don't think men usually care for them the way he did." "Dear Mrs. Merriman," said I at this, "a cup of bouillon and a bit of chicken breast and a drop of creamed cauliflower "
"You see, if I had remained with you I should have been no happier," said Bella, reflectively; "you expected too much from me." "I did my best to make you happy." "Yes, perhaps! then if I had been more grateful and different, would you be glad if I was with you still?" "I cannot answer that question. I loved you I had no thought for any human being outside yourself."
Thus reminded, I took the photograph out of the pocket into which I had slipped it, and looked at it again. "Where did you get it?" I asked. "The police photographer made some copies. This is one of them." "But what made you suspect that the two women were the same?" "I don't just know," answered Godfrey, reflectively.
At least," added Hans, spitting reflectively, "she did not fall quite down because the slave-stick held her head off the ground. The Arabs were very angry, both because she had cursed them and was dead. One of them came and kicked her body and afterwards shot her little boy who was sick, because the mother had cursed them.
"I believe they call the distance from here about two miles," remarked the captain reflectively; "but such a walk before breakfast in this bracing air I presume will not damage children as strong and healthy as these two of mine," regarding them with a fond, fatherly smile. "So come along, we will try it."
Curious," she said reflectively, after a momentary pause, "how he lays up things about his childhood," and then, with a searching look at the Widow Cullom, "you didn't let on, an' I didn't ask ye, but of course you've heard the things that some folks says of him, an' natchally they got some holt on your mind.
"I am truly sorry to hear of the dastardly attack upon her. She once did me a very kind and friendly action at a moment when I was in sore need of a friend." "Who could have fired the shot, do you think?" Henfrey asked. "You know her friends. Perhaps you know her enemies?" Mademoiselle Lisette was silent for some moments. "Yes," she replied reflectively. "She has enemies, I know. But who has not?"
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