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His features were screened from her view by the leaves of a magnificent orange tree, but there was something in his general outline, as he stood leaning indolently against the trellis work chatting with a drawl, real or affected, to a little lady seated, or rather reclining on a low ottoman close by, something that caused her to start as if the gallant officer was not altogether unknown to her, but her memory would not at the moment serve her, yet a feeling of mistrust, a sort of almost indescribable sensation of disquietude came over her as she listened to the polite nothings that issued from his lips; but fearing to attract observation she quietly withdrew, and entering the upper end of the ball room summoned her chobdah and pointing out the figures said, "When that gentleman leaves his present position, tell him that Lady Chutny desires to speak with him."
Demetrio asked indolently. The man persisted, lamenting and weeping. Luis Cervantes was about to throw him out with an insult. But Camilla intervened. "Come on, Demetrio, don't be harsh, give him an order to get his corn back." Luis Cervantes was obliged to obey; he scrawled a few lines to which Demetrio appended an illegible scratch. "May God repay you, my child!
"If only you would help me I'd see to the preaching!" Pelle stretched himself indolently he felt no desire to create a new religion. "No, I want to go away and see the world now," he said. "There must be places in that world where they've already begun to go for the rich folks that's where I want to go!" "One can't achieve good by the aid of evil you had better stay here!
"It makes me furious to see both of you making violent love to Joy Havenith," she said indolently. "Clarence, go start the victrola, my good man. This must be put a stop to." Clarence lifted himself from the floor by Joy, but he calmly took her hand along with him, and raised her, too. "She's going to christen the floor with me," he informed his cousin. "Come on, Miss Joy!"
Or perhaps one's health would mend, after all; and many things be better than was hoped! Sterling was not of a despondent temper, or given in any measure to lie down and indolently moan: I fancy he walked briskly enough into this tempestuous-looking future; not heeding too much its thunderous aspects; doing swiftly, for the day, what his hand found to do.
Billy had been drinking, his face was flushed, and his whole manner was indolently careless and irresponsible. In spite of this, however, his grey eyes were nervously fixed on Charley, and his voice was shaky as he said, in reply to a question as to his finances: "That's my own business, Charley."
Under the near-Venetian ceiling of her den, with its pink Cupids and plump dimpled cherubs smiling down, he was never troubled about his relation to Hardy's defeat. Here he got at life from another slant and could always find justification to himself for his course. She had a silent divination of his moods and knew how to minister indolently to them.
His head, which looked hard and stubborn, lay indolently in the green cushion of the wicker chair, and as he looked out at the ripe summer country a teasing, not unkindly smile played over his lips.
"Let's try a shot, Uncle," she added, sensing deep water ahead. Indolently he picked up a .22 rifle, and rang the bell of her most difficult bull's-eye target eight shots out of ten. He paid her and seemed in nowise elated over her fulsome praise, designed to keep him shooting. He took up his long cane again. "I'll drift up the drag a ways," he said, "and see what's goin' on.
It is folded, and addressed, and given to him, and he pays the fee. The secretary falls back indolently in his chair, and takes a book. The galley-slave gathers up an empty sack. The sentinel throws away a handful of nut-shells, shoulders his musket, and away they go together. Why do the beggars rap their chins constantly, with their right hands, when you look at them?
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