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Kenealy excused himself: "He must see if he could not find Dawd." Mrs. Bazalgette started in a pet; but, after the first canter, she set herself to bewitch Mr. Talboys, just to keep her hand in; she flattered him up hill and down dale. Lucy was silent and distraite. "From that hill you look right down upon the sea," said Mrs. Bazalgette; "what do you say? It is only two miles farther."
I could recall no such day since, though her lover was present, and her happiness assured. Even he was beginning to note that the light of his countenance did not illumine her face that she was "quiet and distraite." Manlike, I had to think it all out, but I thought swiftly.
Was this girl sick apparently in body and mind the guileless maiden who had listened with such flattering attention to the stories of his wanderings in foreign lands, when he last came down to Beechfield Hall? He tried her with similar tales they had no interest for her now. She was silent, distraite, preoccupied.
Dodd became silent, and a little distraite; and at last drew her chair away to a small table, and wrote a letter. In directing it she turned it purposely, so that Julia could catch the address: "Edward Dodd, Esq., Exeter College, Oxford."
Having tried vainly to shake his companion off, he was obliged to submit to walking along the Embankment with him, side by side. He had not found the dinner an entertaining event. Drusilla talked a great deal, but was uneasy and distraite. Rodney Temple seemed to him "a queer old cove," while Mrs. Temple made no impression on him at all.
But now she was listless and distraite, the girlish abandon all stricken out of her. It needed no clairvoyant to see that her heart was heavy and that she was longing for the moment when she could be alone with her pain. Her friend had learned what she wanted to know, and the knowledge of it troubled her.
The westering sun was casting lines of light all over the landscape, which would be soon floods of colour. Papa and I sat down to look and wait. "It certainly is worth coming for," said papa. "Our journey realises more than all I had hoped from it, Daisy." "I am so glad, papa!" "But you, Daisy, how is it with you? You seem to me a little, and not a little, distraite."
But to satisfy you as far as I can, I will try and define it not by telling you what it is; that is beyond my power but by negatives, the only way in which subtle subjects can be approached. A woman of charm is never flustered and never distraite. She talks little, and rarely of herself, remembering that bores are persons who insist on talking about themselves.
Sir Richard fled from the sound of my prosy voice, and, needless to say, Derrick followed him. We let them get well in advance and then followed, Freda silent and distraite, but every now and then asking a question about the Major. As for Derrick, evidently he was on guard.
Sunshine transformed into great golden transparencies the lowered shades in the living room where Geraldine stood, pensive, distraite, idly twirling her crop by the loop. Presently it flew off her gloved forefinger and fell clattering across the carpetless floor.
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