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Pixley," said Graeme, and Mr. Pixley's manner in subtle fashion conveyed his full recognition of the fact that liberty it undoubtedly was, and that he had no smallest shadow of a right to be there, "to inquire after Miss Brandt." "Miss Brandt?" said Mr. Pixley vaguely, as though the name were new and strange to him.
"Well, I caught the kid, and I'm goin' to have my say about what I do with him," Bill retorted. "I ain't goin' to let him make trouble for us, not if I knows what I'm about." Hank made no reply, but puffed silently at his pipe. Jamie was wide awake again. This man Bill meant some evil, and the little lad wondered vaguely what it could be that was to be done to himself, and what his fate was to be.
"I must just see " he murmured vaguely; vaguely also he seemed to grope at the machinery of the car, while the four occupants of the tonneau hung over the doors watching his progress; then once more springing to his seat, he started the car, and they went bumping unevenly along the road.
Instead of the rewards and punishments of traditional belief, which people vaguely hope they may gain, or escape, spite of their disobedience; he finds that there are rewards and punishments in the ordained constitution of things; and that the evil results of disobedience are inevitable. He sees that the laws to which we must submit are both inexorable and beneficent.
At first I spoke vaguely of those indifferent matters with which one fills up an embarrassing silence, but she did not reply, and remained opposite to me with her head down in an undecided manner, as if she were thinking over some difficult subject, and as I was at a loss for small talk, I held my tongue. It is surprising how hard it is at times to find anything to say.
"Guess I'll git along an' an' see to things," he murmured vaguely, without glancing in Birdie's direction. "You said beef bones?" he added, passing a hand perplexedly across his forehead. "Sure," smiled the girl. "Good. Thanks." Then he moved heavily off. "Beef bones and soap bath an' Bible talk; beef bones an' soap "
Yet she had been vaguely suspecting the state of affairs for more than a week; when morning after morning found her languid and weary, when Wallace's fork crushing an egg-yolk had given her a sudden sensation of nausea. She felt so stupid, so tired all the time. She could not sleep at night; she could hardly stay awake in the daytime. Her eyes were heavy now.
He went in for law at Yale, and then practised restlessly, vaguely for two years in Baltimore, under the patronage of his father's oldest friend, a lawyer of distinction. "If I fail at everything else, I'll go back to the practice of law," he said cheerfully. "Uncle Henry is mean enough to say that he has forgotten more law than I ever knew, but he has none the better of me.
Tommy knew what death was now, and Elspeth knew its name, and both were vaguely aware that it was looking for their mother; but if she could only hold out till Hogmanay, Tommy said, they would fleg it out of the house. Hogmanay is the mighty winter festival of Thrums, and when it came round these two were to give their mother a present that would make her strong. It was not to be a porous plaster.
She beckoned Arthur from the room, for she could no longer control herself. Her lips were white, as she drew him into the study, and spoke. "Arthur, what has become of Hamish? Has anything happened to him?" "Happened to him!" repeated Arthur, vaguely, too absorbed in his own sad thoughts to reply at once. "Has he been taken?" "Taken! Hamish?
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