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Slight, with a scatter-brain manner, a face like a weasel, and a sharp nose, Europe's features offered to the observer a countenance worn by the corruption of Paris life, the unhealthy complexion of a girl fed on raw apples, lymphatic but sinewy, soft but tenacious.
Martha Bagley was progressing rapidly. This summer would see her over and done with the scatter-brain prattle that gave equal weight to fact or fancy. Her store of information was growing; she could be relied upon to maintain a fairly secure cover.
Cardinal d'Ossat was doubtless more prudent than a madman in Bedlam; but is it not clear that the organs of d'Ossat the sage were made otherwise than those of the scatter-brain? just as a fox's organs are different from a stork's and a lark's. Your doctor saved your aunt; but assuredly he did not in that contradict nature's order; he followed it.
Yet this scatter-brain girl evidently meant to stay away from home still another night. "Well, she can't, that's all there is to it!" Miss White said, decidedly; "she must come home, so as to be here in the morning when David arrives. Perhaps I'd better go down to Mrs. Maitland's and take her the despatch." She was getting ready to go, when the first rumble of the hurricane made itself heard.
"Nonsense!" was the instant exclamation. "You're yourself, and scatter-brain as you are, I'd want you no different. You're but a lad yet. When you are Bob's age you may be like him. Who knows?" "I'm afraid not," came dismally from Walter. "I haven't started out as Bob did." "What if you haven't? There's time enough to catch up if you hurry. And anyway, I do not want my children all alike.
Wounded in a somewhat scatter-brain night expedition to the lines of Ciudad Rodrigo, my campaigning for some time, at least was concluded; for my wound began to menace the loss of my arm, and I was ordered back to Lisbon. Fred Power was the first man I saw, and almost the first thing he told me was that Sir George Dashwood was in Lisbon, and that his daughter was with him.
"I was just wondering," said the man, smiling indulgently down on her, "how soon you'd recognize me, you little scatter-brain." "I thought you were going to stick in Colorado all summer," said Molly. "Well, I heard they were short of help at Austin Farm and I came on to help get in the hay," said the man. Both he and Molly seemed to consider this a humorous speech.
Here he came to confess his faults and follies with the frankness which is half sad, half comical, and wholly charming in a good-hearted young scatter-brain. Here he brought gay gossip, lively descriptions, and masculine criticisms of the world he moved in. All his hopes and plans, joys and sorrows, successes and defeats, he told to Helen.
There isn't any harm in her except that she is a scatter-brain, and will make eyes or burst. I sometimes think it isn't her fault that she was just born man-crazy." "She's awfully good fun," he laughed. "Are you going to her garden party on Wednesday?" "I accepted before I quarrelled with Uncle Cyrus, but I'll have to get out of it now." "Oh, I wouldn't.
The opposite condition is the employment of energies of mind and body in ways that cannot produce high degree of ability. With such desultory use of energies, a day's work is of relatively small value, and there is no progress. Of the two extremes we find the most prevalent to be the scatter-brain and scatter ability type.
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