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He had no private talk with her; but he was glad just to meet her glance and hear her low replies glad too to find that, as the evening wore on, she seemed less distraite and tired. They went off early, Mr. Sandys pleading fatigue for Maud, and the necessity for himself of a good night's rest, that he might ride forth on the following day conquering and to conquer.
"They are firing at the Butts at Stamford Norton, my lady," said Lutwyche; who always knew things, sometimes rightly sometimes wrongly. This time, the latter. "Then the wind must have gone round. Besides, it would come again. Listen!" Thus her ladyship, and both listened. But nothing came again. Lady Gwendolen was as beautiful as usual that evening, but contrary to custom silent and distraite.
The whiskered major, who took Grace for one of the Captain's daughter's, and was slightly ebris, found her very distraite all of a sudden, and answering his questions vaguely and at random. He did his best to interest her, and failed so signally that he got up and left in disgust. Grace sat still and watched the door. Half an hour passed three-quarters, and then her brother re-entered alone.
Miss De Courcy was often distraite when she brought her crocheting in of an afternoon, or else she was extremely, not to say boisterously gay, and talked or laughed incessantly, or sang at the upright piano that looked too large for the little parlor.
When George had been absent about an hour, she grew restless and distraite; she left her seat by Effie's side, and, going to the window, looked up and down the street. "I hope the rain isn't coming on," she said; "he forgot to take an overcoat." "Who, mother?" "George." "But really, mother dear, he isn't sugar; he won't melt." "There you are again, Effie, making little of your brother.
To be great friends is enough; so you own up to the serious affair? You think that she isn't watching you look." Geoffrey glanced up and caught Miss Windsor's eye. She colored, turned away, and said something to the Saturday Reviewer, who had before found his satirical remarks thrown away on his distraite hostess. "See that fine color mounting to her cheeks," said Mrs. Carey.
It was a distraite maiden who greeted the visiting swain that night and one so inattentive to his wooing that his silences became long, under discouragement, and his temper sullen. Earlier than was his custom he bade her good-night and took himself moodily away.
I thought this very strange; but as she is so distraite she probably did not know what time of day it was, and imagined she was making an afternoon visit. One of the stories about her is that once she went to pay a formal call on one of her colleagues, and stayed on and on until the poor hostess was in despair, as it was getting late.
But all through she was to his fancy absent and distraite, pursuing through the tumult of which she was often the central figure some inner meditations of which neither he nor any one else knew anything. Some eclipse had passed over the girl's light self-satisfied temper; some searching thrill of experience had gone through the whole nature.
"A hostess," she read, "should make her preparations beforehand, and especially avoid appearing distraite during the progress of dinner. . . . Small blunders in the service should either be ignored, or, at the worst, glided over with a laughing apology. . . . A trace too much of curacao in the salade d'oranges will be less easily detected and, if detected, more readily pardoned, than the slightest suspicion of gene on the part of the presiding goddess. . . In England it is customary to offer sherry with the soup, but this should not be dispensed lavishly.
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