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Cecil was distraite and silent, so Lilla's vivacious tongue attracted around her the gentlemen of the group, and, without any effort of his, Major Fane found himself somewhat apart with Miss Rolleston. Though heart-whole when we first introduced him, he was now really in love with Cecil, that is to say, he approved of and wished to marry her.
She surprised a twinkle of satisfaction in his eye. She never forgot it. She sat on thorns, and was so distraite she could hardly answer the simplest question. At last, after an hour of cruel suspense, the servant came in, and said, "George is come back, sir." "Oh, please let him come in here, and tell us." "By all means. Send him in." George appeared, the next moment, in the doorway.
But I felt rather sad Faye was still en route to Washington, and going farther from home every hour, and it was impossible to tell when he would return, Mrs. Mills seemed distraite, too, when I first got to the house, but she soon brightened up and was as animated as ever. The dinner was perfect. Colonel Mills is quite an epicure, and he and Mrs.
She made George write to him constantly and persisted in sending Mamma's kind love in a postscript. And as she looked at her husband's portrait of nights, it no longer reproached her perhaps she reproached it, now William was gone. Emmy was not very happy after her heroic sacrifice. She was very distraite, nervous, silent, and ill to please. The family had never known her so peevish.
The doors rolled open and a buzz of admiration greeted the distraite Lady Angela, whose return from California had been acknowledged by but few of the audience. She went through her scene with the little maid, and when the doors were bumped together, Mr. Grimes of the Romance Languages, a noted success at anagrams, acrostics, and charades, announced, "Dray."
Now she was generally distraite, and at times in a sort of negative condition as though her mind her very being was not present. At such moments she would have full possession of observation and memory. She would know and remember all that was going on, and had gone on around her; but her coming back to her old self had to me something the sensation of a new person coming into the room.
I had only seen Lilla at meals, to find her shy and distraite. She hardly seemed to notice me, but I had the satisfaction of seeing that Garcia fared no better.
The queen, who had been somewhat distraite, and had good cause to be somewhat sad, and disposed to commune with herself, addressed Madame de Staël with the question, 'You have been in Italy, then? "Madame de Staël was, as it were, transfixed with dismay, and the gentlemen exclaimed with one accord: 'And Corinne? and Corinne?
She had no great desire for that repast, though it was served in Rincer's well-known style, as the county paper said, giving an account of the entertainment afterwards; indeed, she was very distraite; and exceedingly pained and unhappy about Pen.
Wentworth watched her for a moment silently, and then said: "You must not let the boy tyrannize over you so." Mrs. Lancaster's reply was complete: "I love it; I just love it!" Presently Mrs. Wentworth spoke again. "What is the matter with you this evening? You seem quite distraite." "I saw a ghost to-day." She spoke without moving. Mrs. Wentworth's face took on more interest. "What do you mean?
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