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It may have been the depth of the silence that made me so conscious of my gesture. The squeak of my match sounded as loud as the scraping of a brake, and I almost fancied I heard it fall when I tossed it onto the grass. But there was more than that: a sense of irrelevance, of littleness, of futile bravado, in sitting there puffing my cigarette-smoke into the face of such a past.
I lay it upon you, as the command of the Church, that you return, my daughter. You have sinned most grievously." "Oh," said Hetty, with apparent irrelevance. "I understand now. You took me for a Catholic." It was Father Antoine's turn to stare. "Why then, if you are not, came you to me?" he said sternly. "I am here only as priest."
"Uncle Sylvester used to want me to be a preacher," he said, with apparent irrelevance, "even if he was his own worst enemy." He added presently, as the girl remained silent, "I always say my prayers at night." He felt vaguely that this might raise him to the place of the other who had been adored. He was wishing to be thought well of by this girl.
Gormer's unconcealable complacency, and in the happy irrelevance with which, for the next day or two, she quoted Bertha's opinions and speculated on the origin of her gown. All the secret ambitions which Mrs.
Interspersed with these details she recounted incidents of her London life as an ambulance-driver, and it was all her listener could do to follow the swift irrelevance of her course. Only once did she pause when, in answer to his question, she told him she had heard nothing of Dick. A few minutes later she rose to go. 'I have stayed much too long, she said. 'I do hope you'll get better quickly.
She broke off, still twinkling at him, and asked, with the casual irrelevance of old age: "Now, why in the world didn't you marry my little Ellen?" Archer laughed. "For one thing, she wasn't there to be married." "No to be sure; more's the pity. And now it's too late; her life is finished." She spoke with the cold-blooded complacency of the aged throwing earth into the grave of young hopes.
"Oh! it's not much of a wound," explained the old man with unconscious irrelevance. "He himself calls it a mere scratch. But my old woman took a fancy to him: he is young and well-looking, you understand. .
Bradlaugh, who, consistently enough, defended the line Praxagora adopted towards the religious question, and justified the introduction of the subject from the charge of irrelevance.
His fanaticism was personal, not polemical. "What'd ye raise back in Ioway?" asked Parker, with seeming irrelevance. "Corn." "How'd ye reconcile that?" "I didn't reconcile it; I couldn't. I sold out, an' come away." Parker trimmed a ragged piece of leather from the sole of his boot, and whistled softly. "Well, I try not to be an extremist," he said, with moderation.
"Long time ago when I was papoose with no shoes," she began with seeming irrelevance, her eyes turning instinctively toward the white tents of the Flying U camp gleaming in the distance, "my people go for work in Buffalo Bill show. My father go, my mother go, I go. All time we dance for show, make Indian fight with cowboys all them act for Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill show.
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