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She replied briefly and without much apparent animation, seeming indeed rather absent-minded and distraite. Presently Mr. Ardagh said, "This new man, William Foster, is that very rare thing in England a pitiless artist. He has the audacity of genius and the fine impersonality." Catherine started and flushed violently. As she did so she saw Jenny's long dark eyes fixed earnestly upon her.
She chatted away to Dick manfully, about all manner of things, but in the pauses of their chatter she was silent and still in a manner quite unlike her old self reattending with a start, and sometimes so distraite she did not hear when he spoke to her.
Hearn had brought, Adah had the advantage, for she was a genius in such matters, and quite as much interested as the little girls themselves. In my desperate struggle with myself, I tried not even to see Miss Warren, for every glance appeared to rivet my chains, and yet I gained the impression that she was a little restless and distraite. She seemed much at her piano, not so much for Mr.
People crowded nearer: there was a flurry of exclamations, and then Christine took a few steps forward where she could see the man's face, and as swiftly drew back into the crowd, pale and distraite. The man watched her until she drew away behind a group, which was composed of Ferrol, her brother and her sister Sophie. He dropped no note of his song, and the bear kept jigging on.
At first he had fought manfully against his growing fears, but when a week had gone by and he had had it forced upon him that the girl he loved was every day becoming more silent and distraite in his presence, and when he had seen how she would gladly have altogether avoided his coming if she could, he lost all heart, and, flinging up his cards, let a bitter revengeful feeling enter and take possession of his heart where love, alone, before, had held full sway.
While she was in this condition, and losing color every day, who should call one day to reconnoiter, I suppose but Mr. Coventry. Grace was lying on the sofa, languid and distraite, when he was announced. She sat up directly, and her eye kindled. Mr. Coventry came in with his usual grace and cat-like step. "Ah, Miss Carden!"
The music would not go right that evening. Mary was distraite, and Robert was troubled. It was a week or two before there came a change. When the turn did come, over his being love rushed up like a spring-tide from the ocean of the Infinite. He was accompanying her piano with his violin. He made blunders, and her playing was out of heart.
Now she sat upright in her chair, smiling, distraite, her hat casting a luminous shadow across her eyes; the fluffy furs, fallen from throat and shoulder, settled loosely around her waist. Glancing up from her short reverie she encountered his curious gaze. "To-night is to be my first dinner dance, you know," she said.
Frere to less advantage. Silent, distraite, and sad. She told me after dinner that she disliked the very name of "convict" from early associations. "I have lived among them all my life," she said, "but that does not make it the better for me. I have terrible fancies at times, Mr. North, that seem half-memories. I dread to be brought in contact with prisoners again.
Presently, too, the butler left to join the Professor in France and the footman enlisted, and the tea had to be served by a distraite parlour-maid, with her eye on a munitions factory so that she might be "in it" and her heart in the keeping of the footman, who, since he had gone into khaki, was irresistible. Mrs. Rossiter of course said, in 1914, that she would take up war work.
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