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'One could never get a word out of him, said Rachel. 'He was always moping alone, said Beruna. 'And when one spoke to him he always turned away, said Leah. 'Or blushed, added Imra. 'Well, for my part, said the beautiful Bathsheba, 'I always thought Prince David was a genius. He had such beautiful eyes! 'I hope he will conquer Hassan, said Rachel. 'So do I, said Beruna.
What can we do for him that we don't do? What is the use of talking to him when he never pays attention to what we say, and is always moping. I am sure we get everything that we think will please him, and he goes out for a walk with us every day; what could possibly be done more for him?" "A great deal more might be done for him," Isobel burst out.
She surveyed Foxy, full of vitality after the drive; the bird, moping and rough; the rabbit, with one ear inside out, looking far from respectable. She heard the ventriloquistic mews. 'I don't want them, dear, she said with great decision. 'It's a bit of a cats' 'ome you're starting, mum, said Abel. Mrs. Marston found no words for her emotions.
Now and then a Bohemian crow, moping lazily from the Maryland border, looked down at Lawrence in the old arm-chair and uttered a hoarse exclamation of astonishment. But Lawrence heard none of these things; with stony stare he continued to regard the roadway to the grove. Could it be that he was unhappy?
"I am not really sick, aunt, but I have no appetite, and having a great deal to think of, I preferred staying here to going to the table," was her answer to Mrs Sutton's inquiries. "Your hands are cold and lifeless as clay, my child. What is the matter? It is not like you to be moping up here, alone in the dark."
"O yes, that I do, and eat too," said she; "my life is not quite so hard and moping as you fancy. Won't that be delightful?" said she, twitching my arm rather roughly, by way of recalling my attention, which, however, had seldom wandered. As she had now run out her London materials, the news of the neighborhood next furnished a subject for her volubility.
"He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my year.
Irons was moping softly about in the neighbourhood of the reading-desk, and about to mark the places of psalms and chapters in the great church Bible and Prayer-book, and sidelong he beheld his crony of the angle marching, with a grim confidence and swiftness, up the aisle. 'I say, where's Martin? said Dangerfield, cheerfully. 'He's gone away, Sir. 'Hey! then you've no one with you? 'No, Sir.
As he walked from the lawyer's office to his hotel, he was absorbed to the point of fatigue in his effort to make up his mind, but it was characteristic of him that even in his absorption he winced at the sight of a caged robin, sitting, moping on its perch, in front of a tobacconist's.
I had spent upwards of a year on the island, or it may have been two, when the old chief fell ill. He sat moping by himself in the corner of his house, and no one could tell what was the matter with him. One day his son came in, and taking his hand, just as if he had been going to say something very affectionately to him, told him that the time had arrived when it would be better for him to die!
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