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Updated: June 11, 2025
The mother was a pleasant, comfortable woman harassed by something, she did not quite know what. The pastor was a ginger-haired caricature imitated from the northern stage, quite a lay figure. The peasants never laughed, they watched solemnly and absorbedly like children. The servant was just a slim, pert, forward hussy, much too flagrant.
He cultivated ferrets his only good point; and it was evidently through the medium of this art that he was basely supplanting me, for her head was bent absorbedly over something he carried in his hands. With some trepidation I called out, "Hi!" But answer there was none. Then again I called, "Hi!" but this time with a sickening sense of failure and of doom.
"Why, yes," he answered, pushing towards her the chair he had not offered to Waters and erupting forthwith into uneasy volubility. "This is it. Sit down, madam; sit right down and tell me what I can do for you." The girl, still smiling, took the seat he gave her; across the desk-top, Waters, unmoving, his battered hand grasping his peaked Russian cap, gazed upon her absorbedly.
But Roger couldn't tell her that. "I'd be sorry to see you do it," he said. "I'd miss you up in the mountains." "Oh, we'd come up in the summer," she answered. "I wouldn't miss the mountains for worlds!" Then they talked of summer plans. And soon again Edith's smooth pretty brows were wrinkling absorbedly.
He fought them absorbedly, throwing his line farther and farther as the necessity arose, running to beat down with green brush the first feeble upstartings of the fire as it leaped here and there his barrier, keeping a vigilant eye on every part of his defences. "Well," drawled Charley Morton's voice behind him, "what you think you're doing?"
Katherine O'Donovan promptly seized the axe, caught its carrying strap lying beside it, thrust the handle through, swung it over her own head, dropped it between her shoulders, and ripping off her dress skirt she started up the cliff after Linda. Linda was climbing so swiftly and so absorbedly that she reached the top before she heard a sound behind her.
"This room looks like the Old Boy an' so do you an' he'll go home an' tell all the folks at the Ridge. Why, he's heard we're married, an' come over here to spy out the land. He hates the cold. He never stirs till 'way on into June; an' now he's come to find out." "Find out what?" inquired Enoch absorbedly. "Well, if you're anyways put to 't, you send him to me."
Then he bethought himself that he had not given any reason for coming and that Tenney might remember it afterward and wonder. "I thought I'd run up," he said, "and pay you for your week's work." Tenney was darting about with a small tin tub, filling it from the kettle and trying the temperature with his hand. "No," he answered absorbedly, "I can't bother with that to-night.
She would watch the picture absorbedly, but when she stepped, blinking, into the bright glare of Fifty-third Street, she always had a sense of let-down, of depression. A wise old lady of seventy, who could not apply her wisdom for her own good. A rather lonely old lady, with hardening arteries and a dilating heart. An increasingly fault-finding old lady. Even Hugo began to notice it.
There was a living, tender beauty, like a tender light of dawn shining from her face. He looked at her with a new pleasure, feeling gay in his heart, irresponsible. 'You are doing catkins? he asked, picking up a piece of hazel from a scholar's desk in front of him. 'Are they as far out as this? I hadn't noticed them this year. He looked absorbedly at the tassel of hazel in his hand.
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