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He asked questions concerning his pulse and temperature, wanted to know if the bags of ice could be dispensed with soon. Julia read aloud to him for an hour every morning. But, having a half-attentive interest in what she read, he would look fixedly at her and try to piece together his jumbled recollections.
I leave my companions in order to call for the lamps and I stop near Rose as I pass through the next room. Here, all the girls are clustered round Hermione, who is telling them a story of her travels. Anne and Marie are listening respectfully, while the two inseparables, only half-attentive, are sharing a box of sweets.
Margret put her hand kindly on the broad, misshapen forehead. "Something is wrong everywhere, Lois," she said, absently. She did not see the slow sigh with which the girl smothered down whatever hope had risen just then, listened half-attentive as the huckster maundered on. "It was th' mill," she said at last.
That'd be worse." The remark was a little too subtle for Lady Richard's half-attentive ear. She contented herself with sighing expressively. Morewood looked across the lawn again; the slow-walking figure had disappeared, presumably into the shrubberies. Two or three moments later he saw Marchmont strolling off in that direction, cigar in mouth and hands in pockets.
I was in the foremost boat that boarded a Spaniard in the Mona, last war; and though we went into her with light heels, some of us were brought out with broken heads. I think the fore-top-gallant-mast has a better set, Captain Ludlow, since we gave the last pull at the rigging?" "It stands well;" returned his half-attentive commander. "Give it the other drag, if you think best."
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