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The judge had made a speech in honour of the home-coming of the student, the eldest son of the house, and the merchant had replied with another in honour of the judge; so far all was well and good. And yet one could see that the host was disquieted about something. He answered inconsequentially, decanted Rhine wine into port, and betrayed absence of mind in all manner of ways.
So by and by our engagement was broken off, which was probably the best thing for us both." "Has Colonel Dalton ever married?" Nona inquired inconsequentially. Her companion shook her head. "Really, I don't know. Suppose we walk on now to the hut where your little French girl Nicolete once lived."
He is a grown man, and if he takes it into his head to go anywhere you can't say anything." Sylvia looked at Henry with a baffled expression. "I think he might spend his time a good deal more profitably Sunday afternoon than sitting under the trees and smoking, or going walking," said she, rashly and inconsequentially. "If he would only sit down and read some good book." "You can't dictate to Mr.
Nevertheless, when night came, another reaction set in, and he elected to sleep with Ed because he could not face such another night alone. They lay down side by side in their blankets. Ed babbled on as inconsequentially as a child. He required no answers. "We'll build a two-room house so's you can be by yourself when you want.
As he stretched back luxuriously something small and hard and bulging made him aware of itself in his pocket. "Oh Lord, I forgot I still had that gun of Mr. Piper's!" said Oliver inconsequentially. "Have you?" said Mrs. Severance. The fact did not seem to strike her as being of any particular importance.
"Anyway you must let me get you some coffee," Billy most inconsequentially suggested, beckoning to the red-girdled Mohammed with his laden tray, and because he was young and nice looking and evidently a gentleman from their part of the world and his evening clothes fitted perfectly and had just the right amount of braid, Mrs.
Of all desolate places, the one at which I was ditched was the limit. It was called a flag-station, and it consisted of a shanty dumped inconsequentially into the sand and sagebrush. A chill wind was blowing, night was coming on, and the solitary telegraph operator who lived in the shanty was afraid of me. I knew that neither grub nor bed could I get out of him.
Julia did not answer; she only touched the wilting and fragrant violets on her breast with her free hand. Jim still held one hand. "You you'll like Browning," added Jim. And inconsequentially he added, "I was thinking of our little talk yesterday all night." "So was I," Julia breathed. They turned suddenly and self- consciously to Miss Toland and Mark.
Had Janet been a more experienced woman, and one with the firm sure touch of the conversational pilot, there might be some interest in charting out her secret course, showing all the quick invisible moves that were made, and how she steered through swift hidden dangers and grazed imminent perils unscathed, chatting inconsequentially all the while. But Janet was not that.
One day he said to her, as inconsequentially as he could: "I really think, my dear, that I ought to be planning to get a woman here in your place... Now that Hilmer's business is reasonably assured, I can afford it... It's too much to ask of you keeping up your house and doing this, too." "Well," she shrugged, "we can board if it gets too much for me." "You know I detest boarding."
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