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To the last fine detail and exquisite touch was she, more here than elsewhere, softly, prettily, daintily feminine, her light heart idly set on wooing from its calm and abstracted aloofness this region of granite and lava, of rugged chasms and august ancient trees.
Who shall explain the position of the Papacy, the question of Ireland, the aloofness of old Spain? It is all a welter if we try to order it by modern, external especially by any materialist or even skeptical analysis. It was not climate against climate that facile materialist contrast of "environment," which is the crudest and stupidest explanation of human affairs.
And now there is a distant wilderness and great southern stars, and mysterious, antique ruins, and a man who has grown strong and silent in aloofness, and won a sort of soothing content out of what he has given, seeking no reward.
He stood staring at her a little longer, as if he could not believe his ears. The red blood slowly mounted to his forehead. She returned his gaze with the same look of almost wistful pity, in which there was an aloofness, a coldness, that showed him as nothing else had ever done the extent of her estrangement from himself. Somehow he felt as though she had struck him on the lips.
Woolstan received with some modification of her aloofness; she was very glad; after all, perhaps it had been a wise thing to send Leonard off with little warning; she would only have made herself miserable in the anticipation of parting with him. That, said Mr. Wrybolt, was exactly what he had himself felt. He was quite sure that in a few days Mrs. Woolstan would see that all was for the best.
Fifteen minutes later she emerged with Ali Partab, who looked sleepy, but still more ashamed of his unmilitary dishabille. Rosemary McClean glanced left and right forgot about the awning and the custom which decrees aloofness ignored the old woman's waving arm and Ali Partab's frown, and rode toward him eagerly. "Did Mahommed Gunga-sahib leave you here with any orders relative to me?" she asked.
Bent on self-effacement, attuned to the peace of despair, she almost resented the solicitation to be happy; she had suffered so much that she had grown to think suffering her natural element, out of which she could not breathe; she was almost in love with misery. And in so sad a world was there not something ignoble about happiness, a selfish aloofness from the life of humanity?
He loved these baby-maulings even more than the touch of Joan's hand. Motionless, sphinx-like, undemonstrative in every muscle of his body, Kazan stood, scarcely breathing. More than once this lack of demonstration had urged Joan's husband to warn her. But the wolf that was in Kazan, his wild aloofness, even his mating with Gray Wolf had made her love him more.
When her despairing reference to Providence brought forth no results, she wished she dared ask Mrs. Falconer openly to take Camilla Clark, but somehow she did not dare. There were not many things that could daunt Miss Bailey, but Mrs. Falconer's reserve and gentle aloofness always could. When Miss Bailey had gone on down the village street, Mrs.
"Don't want rice, want cutylet," said Shirley, pointing to the veal cutlet. "She's had enough meat to-day," interposed Winnie. "The doctor says she shouldn't have it at all at night." Shirley refused to touch the rice and was sitting in stately aloofness when Doctor Hugh came in looking warm and tired.
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