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Hood had a newspaper before him on the table; his wife wore the wonted Sabbath absentness, suggestive of a fear lest she should be late for church; Emily made a show of eating, but the same diminutive slice of bread-and-butter lasted her to the end of the meal.
Will you send me up something just some soup and coffee?" "Certainly, darling," said mamma. Already there had crept a certain absentness into the campaigner's voice. Her strong, constructive mind was slipping away from this present, measuring over the triumphs that lay ahead.
While these guesses are usually surprisingly accurate, it sometimes happens that we work out a theory that is a whole lot worse than the truth." "Of course," said Varney, with sudden absentness. "That's the way you sell your dirty papers, is n't it?" "Mr.
I saw your sister Madge about twenty minutes ago. She seemed very happy about something or other. 'Mr. Jacomb, said Nan, 'do you know the lady who left a minute ago? 'No, said he, wondering a little at the earnestness or rather the absentness of her manner. 'I only caught a glimpse of her. She belongs to one of the visiting sisterhoods. Nan was silent for a second or two.
There was no light. The chance was she slept. On the edge of the bed, he found himself with one shoe unlaced, and, smiling at his absentness, relaced it. What need was there for him to sleep? It was already four in the morning. He would at least watch his last sunrise. Last things were coming fast. Already had he not dressed for the last time?
But my meaning is quite the contrary.... May you, Miss Heth, never know the sorrows of the transplanted and the idle " He broke off, staring with apparent absentness. Much interested, Carlisle said, toying with her teaspoon: "I didn't think you rude at all.
Mike, as always, was rendered utterly dumb by the sight of suffering. He sat at his desk, occupying himself as best he could with the driblets of work which came to him. Mr Waller's silence and absentness continued unchanged. The habit of years had made his work mechanical.
I felt ashamed of having neglected them, and as I knew that Mr. Smith was at our house, I could not be suspected of having hoped to meet him at theirs. But I called at an unfortunate moment. Miss Martha had just made up her mind that in the absence of my mother, and the absentness of my father, it was the duty of old friends like herself to give me a little friendly counsel.
And he hummed: "'Back to the road again, again, Out of a clear sea track; Follow the cross of the Gypsy trail, Over the world and back." She nodded comprehension, looked for a moment with troubled eyes down the long room to the card-players, caught herself in her momentary absentness, and said quickly: "Heaven knows there's a lot of Gypsy in some of us. I have more than full share.
It was not the first of recent mornings that Dick had so sauntered to the window, to glance out with apparent absentness at the rush of the morning riding party in the last dash home to the hitching rails. But he knew, on this morning, before the first figures came in sight whose those figures would be.
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