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Updated: May 23, 2025
To-day, as then, when Hall Caine has a book to write, he reads every book bearing on his theme which he can obtain "a whole library for each chapter" and will work at his subject day and night, all-absorbed, wrapped up, concentrated.
Lyon went South nearly two weeks ago," was answered. "That doesn't signify. He's a schemer and an adventurer I could see it in every lineament of his face and, there's not a shadow of doubt in my mind, has got Edward interested in some of his doings. Why, isn't it as plain as daylight? Were not he and Edward all-absorbed about something while he was here?
And Jessie sprang down the steps to meet the man, who paused long enough to hand her a thick envelope, and then went on out of sight, quite disregarded by the girls who were all-absorbed in their mail. "It's yours," said Jessie, as she deliberately mounted the steps once more; "but I can't make out whose writing it is. Part of it looks like Alan's, and part like Polly's.
But all-absorbed, Jadwin neither heard nor responded. Three times he verified the same word. "Oh, please tell me," she begged. Jadwin shook his head impatiently and held up a warning hand. "Wait, wait," he said. "Wait a minute." Word for word he wrote out the translation of the cablegram, and then studied it intently. "That's it," he said, at last. Then he got to his feet.
Surely, this could not be Allie, the demure little maid who had met him with such easy, quiet grace! Charlie knew little of girls and their ways; but he had always looked upon them with a certain distrust, as being all-absorbed in their fine clothes and their prim deportment.
Times were to come aplenty, to be sure, when the old call of untrammelled freedom stirred her senses to mute rebellion; but, as often, her all-absorbed interest in the work silenced it speedily. Right at the outset Rose experienced the same shock which hundreds of other would-be nurses have had. She, mistress of a home for years, was obliged to learn to clean, to scrub, to make a bed!
Money, in his eyes the greatest good, had not brought the peace of mind to which he had looked forward, and the days came and went without a smile. His children had grown up and passed into the world, and were, as he had been at their ages, so all-absorbed by the love of gain, as to have little love to spare for any thing else. About this time, Mr.
But, the dying man grew worse and worse, and finally sprung bolt upright in his seat. A person sitting behind him, all-absorbed in the music, immediately placed his hands on his shoulders, pressed him down again, and held him firmly in his place.
And the man who brought such a love might in truth be all-absorbed therein himself: the poorest of creatures may well be absorbed in the poorest of loves. A heart has to be taught to love, and its first lesson, however well learnt, no more makes it perfect in love, than the A B C makes a savant. The man who loves most will love best.
But she, unconscious soul, did not recognize it, hers being an all-absorbed interest, and, reassured, young William went on: "There was a William Ransome once, when he was little, sat on General Washington's knee, and General Washington sang him 'The Ram of Derby. Go on, mother, sing it."
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