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"I put the kibosh on it, according to orders." Peter Phipps pushed the cigars across the desk towards his companion. "Try one of these before you enter upon the labours of the day," he invited, "and just see what you think of these figures." Dredlinton glanced at the papers carelessly at first and then with genuine interest.
She left the room, and Edward followed her to the door. He stood there for a minute or two, as if reflecting what he should say, perhaps satisfying himself that no one was within hearing in the hall. At length he turned about, having closed the door, as if carelessly, with his foot; and advancing slowly, as if in deep thought, he took his seat at the side of the table opposite to mine.
They would be asleep in the den when a note would summon them forth to play, every pup tumbling hurriedly out; she would give another cry when they were playing carelessly in the open, the tone being so nearly identical with that of the first that a man might hear it a hundred times and detect no difference, yet every pup would dive headlong for the nearest hole.
"That's where you make a mistake, Monsieur le Préfet," said Don Luis. M. Desmalions gave a start. "What! What's that? Cosmo Mornington ?" "I say that Cosmo Mornington did not die, as you think, of a carelessly administered injection, but that he died, as he feared he would, by foul play." "But, Monsieur, your assertion is based on no evidence whatever!" "It is based on fact, Monsieur le Préfet."
He stared with bulging eyes at the tired carelessly dressed elderly man with whom he had been intimate so many years. He returned to the hotel. His spirits were normal again. He had taken his part in a fragment of the daily life of Newport. As he passed through the office on his way to the elevator, the clerk beckoned to him.
To Walker Farr, glancing carelessly, it seemed like a bedraggled bundle of rags with something white at the end. "You come help, m'sieu'," called old Etienne. "It is a dead woman." Together they pulled the rake's dread burden slowly up the bars of the rack. "You seem pretty cool about this," gasped the young man. "It is no new thing.
They made him look broader and more manly while leaving room for the free play of limb and muscle. He had knotted a crimson silk scarf round his neck, sailor fashion, and twisted a voluminous cummerbund of the same round his waist, carelessly, so that one heavily fringed end of it came loose, and now hung down to his knee, swaying with his body as he moved.
They had not exchanged a word since the evening previous, when Jim had kissed her. Unable to look at each other now, and finding speech difficult, they walked in embarrassed silence. "Doesn't Joe look splendid in his hunting suit?" asked Jim, presently. "I hadn't noticed. Yes; he looks well," replied Nell, carelessly. She was too indifferent to be natural. "Are you angry with him?"
And as Bullock had been bailiff as well as agent, Harry had all the home-farming matters on his hands, and attended to them like any farmer, so that it was no wonder that he gave little time to the meetings for archery practice, which involved the five miles expedition, and even to our own domestic practice, answering carelessly, when Eustace scolded him about letting a chance go by, and his heedlessness of the honour of the family, "Oh, I take a shot or two every morning as I go out, to keep my hand in."
"And," continued Nellie carelessly, "how you made us sing out of the same book 'Children of our Father's Fold, and how you preached at him until he actually got a color!" "Yes," said her father; "but it wasn't known then he was an Injin, and they are frightfully unpopular with those Southwestern men among whom we labor.
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