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Updated: May 11, 2025
The albino half-closed his eyes, the pale eyeballs glittering through the slit of his lids as he reflected on this proposition, tapping a careless finger on his knee. He glanced absent-mindedly toward the bar, his thoughts wholly occupied with the matter in hand.
He was so radiant and at the same time so nervous that Mrs. Fonss knew something had happened, and she had an intuition of what it was. He sought for an opening to unburden his heart and sat and talked absent-mindedly of the theater.
Cassidy, while figuring out his method of procedure, absent-mindedly jabbed a finger in his eye, and the ensuing tears floated an idea to him. He had always had great respect for ricochet shots since his friend Skinny Thompson had proved their worth on the hides of Sioux. If he could disturb the sand and convey several grains of it to Mr. Travennes' eyes the game would be much simplified.
She seemed thoughtful. After awhile, Emily came, swishing silkily. Mrs. Senter began to talk to her, praising the place; and then, just before the quarter past dinner-time Sir Lionel joined us, looking nice, but tired. Mrs. Senter gave him a sweet smile, and he smiled back, absent-mindedly.
Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might have been as good as Weyrother's, but for the disadvantage that Weyrother's had already been approved. As soon as Prince Andrew began to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, Prince Dolgorukov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not at the map, but at Prince Andrew's face.
"Yes, he must be crushed," returned Armitage absent-mindedly, in English; then, remembering himself, he repeated the affirmation in French, changing the pronoun. Mrs. Sanderson was now free. She was a pretty, vivacious woman, much younger than her stalwart husband, a college graduate whom he had found teaching school near one of his silver mines. "Welcome once more, constituent!
He used the word "business" absent-mindedly, and Mr. Carew smiled, not at all illy pleased with it. Hubert was thinking of an investment. Winifred and Hubert walked a part of the way home in silence. At length the former spoke. "It seems to me we have been rather blind concerning the object of missions," she said. "What do you think of it now, Hubert?"
Let me introduce you to my great friend Eureka" the lady in vermilion bowed absent-mindedly, and rolled her huge brown eyes wearily at the Prophet "and to Mr. Briskin Moses." The little gentleman made a stage reverence and fluttered his small hands airily. "Pretty sight, pretty sight!" he said in a quick and impudent voice. "All these little dears enjoying themselves so innocently.
The man moved into the light and stood gazing towards them absent-mindedly, as if thinking of something. Walters noticed his white hair and thin face, the keenness of his blue eyes, the firmness of his mouth, and the erectness of his figure. "That is Colonel Challoner," Mrs. Chudleigh replied. "Ah!" said Walters; "I thought I recognized the stamp.
Antoinette, who disapproves of the amorphous British lumps of sugar, has found some emporium where she can buy the regular parallelopiped of the Continent, and these she provides for my afterdinner coffee. Absent-mindedly I dipped the edge of the piece of sugar into the liquid, before dropping it, and watched the brown moisture rise through the white crystals. Then I remembered.
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