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Updated: June 9, 2025
The fat man waved his arm toward the shops from which the roar of machinery came. The advertising man absentmindedly nodded his head. He was trying to hear the song of labour talked of by the drunken man. It was quitting time and there was the sound of many feet moving about the floor of the factory. The roar of the machinery stopped.
I wish my mother hadn't insisted that I should attend cooking classes." "What on earth has that to do with it?" "To do with what?" asked Lady Garvington absentmindedly. "I don't know what you're talking about, I'm sure. But mother knew that Garvington was fond of a good dinner, and made me attend those classes, so as to learn to talk about French dishes.
Old Lizzie cleaned the fish and Lydia fried them, with the daintiness and skill that seemed to have been born in her. She laid an envelope at her father's plate and when he sat down, silent and abstracted, without heeding the fish, she shook her head at Lizzie who was about to protest. "Where'd this come from?" he asked, absentmindedly opening the envelope. Then, "For God's sake!
The blood does not react against it; the blood shrinks away, and stagnates around the heart. He would change his coat for a velveteen jacket, not in order to be picturesque, but to keep his coat-cuffs clean. He was as particular as an old maid, Aurora told him, before he had been caught absentmindedly wiping paint off on his hair.
"Do you believe him?" Osmond asked absentmindedly. "Perfectly. Pansy has thought a great deal about him; but I don't suppose you consider that that matters." "I don't consider it matters at all; but neither do I believe she has thought of him." "That opinion's more convenient," said Madame Merle quietly. "Has she told you she's in love with him?" "For what do you take her?
"Go in an hour or two?" gasped Priscilla absentmindedly, following Farwell's words and accepting the money with a long, tender look of gratitude. "In an hour or two? Why, you've only just come in, Master Farwell!" "What matters? After to-morrow I shall have time to rest and sleep to my fill." "You will miss me, Master Farwell?" Priscilla's eyes were dim. "I would like to have some one miss me!"
"Well, as Molly's cousin, let me warn you! Molly driving a car in Jamaica will be like Pavlova doing a bacchante on the point of a needle! You'll have to keep a close watch on her to see that she doesn't absentmindedly dash across the island and jump off the bank right on into the ocean." "Where does F. Morrison, house-furnishing-expert, come in?" asked Mrs. Marshall-Smith.
"See him push the lion's cage around. Elephants are awful strong!" "They couldn't push a railroad train," said Flossie. "They could too!" cried her little brother, quickly. "They could not. Could they, papa?" "What?" asked Mr. Bobbsey, absentmindedly. "Could an elephant push a railroad train?" asked Flossie. "I know they could," declared Freddie. "Couldn't they, papa?"
"Quite a clear print, you see," repeated Mrs. Marlow brightly. "No spot there. You must have been thinking of another." "Aye, just so," replied Allerdyke absentmindedly. "Another, yes, of course. Aye, to be sure you're right. No spot on that, certainly." He was talking aimlessly, confusedly, as he turned the print over in his hand, examining it back and front.
"The first because she met one of those great dancing bears they shouldn't be allowed; the other it was a horrid story our cook had a child and there was a dinner party. So I put my dyspepsia down to that." "And a miscarriage is so much worse than a confinement," Mrs. Thornbury murmured absentmindedly, adjusting her spectacles and picking up The Times. Mrs. Elliot rose and fluttered away.
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