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The woman at the lodge opened the gate, and he rode in mechanically, asking if any of them were at home. The judge and Mr. Augustus were gone up to London, but my lady and the other ladies were in the house. Mr. Graham had not gone, the woman said in answer to his question; nor did she know when he was going.
Miss Masters, you know we have another dance to do. My brother-in-law will see after you and your bouquet, if you will allow me." "Oh, give it me, please," cried the girl, with a nervous laugh. "I really did not know you were carrying it. Thanks so much." She had succeeded almost mechanically to Mrs.
Subconsciously she was aware that she was hungry, that it was long since she had eaten, and, almost mechanically, she prepared herself something now from the store the garret possessed; but, even as she ate, her mind was far from thoughts of food.
Even their dinner, or what was called so, consisted of only a few bits of bread and meat, distributed by Ardan at five o'clock, and swallowed mechanically. They did not even turn on the gas full head to see what they were eating; each man stood solidly at his window, the glass of which they had enough to do in keeping free from the rapidly condensing moisture.
Zounds!" he added, with another more emphatic oath, "this is most unfortunate." "Quick Sally! the candles!" shouted Jellyband, as hopping about from one leg to another, he ran hither and thither, adding to the general discomfort of everybody. The Comtesse, too, had risen to her feet: rigid and erect, trying to hide her excitement beneath more becoming SANG-FROID, she repeated mechanically,
As for their basketry, I have elsewhere shown that it alone stamps them as an artistic, mechanically skilful, and mathematically inclined people, and the study of their designs and their meanings reveal a love of nature, poetry, sentiment, and religion that put them upon a superior plane. Indian Basketry, especially the chapters on Form, Poetry, and Symbolism.
Then she pushed the dog gently from her lap and laid herself down upon the rocks and pillowed her aching head upon his body. Gradually the tender melancholy of the dying day touched her mood with subtle sympathy and soothed her troubled spirit. Rapt in rueful revery, she followed mechanically the flight of a flock of birds.
"Go and say good-by to the lady," he said, briefly. "I'll wait for you here. We shall go in ten minutes." I was thunderstruck. "Well," he said, "didn't you understand me? You stand there like a stupid! Hurry up!" He had never spoken so roughly to me. Mechanically I got up to obey, not seeming to understand. "What did you say to her?" I asked, after I had gone a few steps.
He would have liked to steal away too; but he remained, and began mechanically helping again wherever he saw help needed. By and by Berry came out; Lemuel thought that he would tell some policeman to arrest him; but he went away without speaking to any one. In an hour the firemen had finished their share of the havoc, and had saved the building.
You see his mother is sick most of the time, and can't do much; and he's got a little sister, she ain't more than four or five years old and William supports them by selling things. He's only sixteen; isn't he a smart boy?" "Yes;" said the nurse, mechanically. "Some time," continued Ida, "I hope I shall be able to earn something for father and mother, so they won't be obliged to work so hard."
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