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My father, however, was of a very different opinion, for when my mother, in the pride of her heart, showed him my copy of verses, he threw them out of the window, asking her "if she meant to make a ballad monger of the boy." But he was a careless, common-thinking man, and I cannot say that I ever loved him much; my mother absorbed all my filial affection.
'At least, not against the only sort of assassins who are in the least degree dangerous. I want you to understand this quite clearly, he said, turning to her suddenly with an earnestness which had something tender in it. 'I want you to know that I am not rash or foolhardy or careless about my own life. I have only too much reason for wanting to live aye, even for clinging to life!
There is nothing, in my opinion, more illustrious in the life of Socrates, than that he had thirty whole days wherein to ruminate upon the sentence of his death, to have digested it all that time with a most assured hope, without care, and without alteration, and with a series of words and actions rather careless and indifferent than any way stirred or discomposed by the weight of such a thought.
But how careless of me. Let me get you a cup of tea," he said to Mrs. Hollister, placing a table before her and a stool under her feet. He soon returned, bringing the tray and a plate of delicious jumbles. "You see," he continued, "Aunt Susan will not keep two girls, so I have to be waitress now and then.
"Look, look, Sibyll!" he said, pointing to Hastings "look! that man you believe loves you. If so if he loved thee, would he stand yonder mark him aloof, contemptuous, careless while he knew that I was by your side?" Sibyll turned upon the goldsmith eyes full of innocent surprise, eyes that asked, plainly as eyes could speak, "And wherefore not, Master Alwyn?"
The language of this and other letters was partly due to the state of his health; the continual anxiety and work of his life at Frankfort, joined to irregular hours and careless habits, had told upon his constitution. He fell seriously ill in St.
Sargent read it attentively. "My sister recommends you as tutor for my little son, Arthur," he said, as he folded up the letter. "Yes, sir; she suggested that I might perhaps suit you in that capacity." "She also says that you found and restored to her a valuable box of jewelry which she was careless enough to drop near Tiffany's." "Yes, sir."
It was his nature to be careless, and he had been spoiled into recklessness; he neglected everybody, and only remembered them when it suited his whim or his convenience; but he fiercely resented the inattentions of others toward himself.
He looked out of the window down to the river running dark in the shade of trees. "But I'll go to-morrow morning," he added. And the next morning he walked over early to Great Beeding. His aunt would have received the pamphlet by the first post and he wished to seize the first fine careless rapture of her comments. But he found her in a mood of distress rather than of wordy impatience.
"We will go on a bit further," Nat said, "in hopes of coming across some stream, where we may hide our trail. If we can't find that, we will sit down, before long, and eat as if we was careless and in no hurry." For a time, they walked on in silence. "Do you think they are close to us?" James asked, presently. "Not far away," the scout said carelessly.
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