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'Seen young Kirkwood lately? Hewett asked, averting his eyes and assuming a tone of half-absent indifference. 'He's gone away for his holiday; gone into Essex somewhere. When was it he was speaking of you? Why, one day last week, to be sure. 'Speakin' about me, eh? said John, turning his glass round and round on the table.
She caught the girl's hand in her hot palms, and seemed to entreat her for a propitious word. Irene was very still, thinking; and at length she smiled. "Who can say? Olga is good and clever " "It might have been; I know it might. But after this?" "More likely than not," said Irene, with a half-absent look, "this would help to bring it about."
Monk, while arranging his answer, once or twice in a half-absent way, called his companion's attention to the scene before him. But during this time he was going through an act of painful repentance. He was condemning himself for a word or two that had been ill-spoken by himself, and which, since the moment of its utterance, he had never ceased to remember with shame.
My friend, my old comrade Crevel, has eighty thousand francs a year; and you, I suppose, did not show such a good hand, for if you had, you, I imagine, would have been preferred." Montes listened with a half-absent, half-smiling expression, which struck them all with terror.
He had absorbed himself in writing, content to leave in suspense the training of his enchanted leopardess. Half-absent glimpses of her desolate beauty as she moved about his winter-bound house, contemplation of her unself-consciousness as she companioned his meals, the pleasure he felt in her rapt listening to his music in the still, frost-held evenings by the fire these he had made enough.
"But there are some of the petrified bones left, too, I reckon. If the professor is a friend of yours, we'll get him a State permit to dig all he wants to." "Yes; Professor Anners is a friend of mine," was the younger Blount's half-absent rejoinder. But after the admission was made he qualified it. "Perhaps I ought to say that he is as much a friend as his daughter will permit him to be."
If the time goes by, leaving the house-cleaning still undone, I shall keep my promise to the letter. You know, and I know, what will happen after that." "Yes; I reckon I know," was the half-absent reply. Blount threw his napkin aside and glanced at his watch. "I've got to go back to the office and work a while," he said. And then: "I feel better for having had this talk with you, dad.
Courtney slowly abstracted his gaze from without, and turned on his shoulder with the lazy, languid grace of a cat. "No," said he, in a half-absent tone; "I have just come up, and I've not thought of looking into picture-galleries yet." "Been in the country?" asked Kew. "Yes, I've been in the country," said Courtney, still as if his attention was elsewhere. "It must be looking lovely," said Kew.
But Dolly's color had faded again, and she was resting her forehead upon her hands, with a heavy, anxious, worn look, which spoke of sudden reaction. She lifted her face with a half-absent air. "I hope it will be in time for to-night's post," she said. "Do you think it will?" "I am not quite sure, but I hope so. You must come to bed, Dolly."
"Thirty-seven thirty-five more than we owe him; Hepsey, you've done fine," he chortled. But Hepsey's look was now riveted on the chairman, and except for a half-absent smile of pleasure, the keenest anxiety showed in her expression. Bascom cleared his voice again, and then proceeded: "Mrs. Burke informed you that the rector's salary was in arrears to the extent of about two hundred dollars.
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