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"This is Mr. French, I believe," he said, turning out of his course to speak to the young man introduced in the last chapter, who, with the same restless, anxious look he then wore, was unobservantly hurrying by the other, on his way to the Court House. "Yes, yes, sir," replied French, slightly checking his speed, and looking back, with a half-surprised, half-vacant expression.
The sick man took no notice of this injunction; but for the time was not disobedient, and lay for some minutes staring at the watcher's face with a strange half-vacant smile upon his own. "Gilbert," he said at last, "what have they done with my wife? Why has she been kept away from me?" "Your wife? Marian?" "Yes Marian. You know her name, surely.
The ambassador turned swiftly to the new Delora, who was looking from one to the other with the pained, half-vacant expression of a child. "Delora," he exclaimed, "how comes it that you have let your brother intervene? Did you not understand how secret your mission was to be? how important?" The man shook his head slowly. "I am sorry," he said, "I have been ill. I know nothing.
He looked around him with the half-curious, half-vacant stare of a stranger and provincial. The donkey ate leisurely from an armful of green grass, of which there was an abundance in the market. In its sleepy content, the brute did not admit of disturbance from the bustle and clamor about; no more was it mindful of the woman sitting upon its back in a cushioned pillion.
He looked about him in a half-vacant inconsequential way and then began to "jolly" the waitress, who approached and sung off a string of alternates on the "Hooverized" bill of fare which she carried in her mind. She coldly ignored his "jollies," for it was difficult for Langford to be pleasing even when he tried to be pleasant, took his order, and proceeded on her way.
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