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"I tell you what I'll do," said he, in a business-like manner, much as if Brown had asked him to clean out his study for him, "if you ask Telson to come too, I'm game." Brown half doubted whether these two allies had not been consulting together on the subject, so startling was the similarity of their conditions. "Oh! Telson's coming," he said, in as offhand a way as he could. "He is!
It is mainly in virtue of this very vagueness and mystery of manner that the picture is so impressive. An illustration should stir our fancy, leaving it scope and freedom. Most illustrations, being definite, do but affront us. Usually, Shakespeare is illustrated by some Englishman overawed by the poet's repute, and incapable of treating him, as did Corot, vaguely and offhand.
"I'm naturally a very busy man, and I can't make engagements offhand, but I can easily get at you on the telephone. Will you come some afternoon, about half-past four?" "I think you are very rash. How do you know I shall not bring the colours, and wave them wildly down the street, shouting 'Votes for Women'?" "I'll risk it. Will you come?" She moved away, latch-key in hand. "I don't know.
The letters delivered in the country have marvellously multiplied, but still country people do not treat letters offhand. The arrival of a letter or two is still an event; it is read twice or three times, put in the pocket, and looked at again. Suburban residents receive circulars by every other post of every kind and description, and cast them contemptuously aside.
"You seem to know Liverpool pretty well," he at length remarked, as the captain paused to re-light his pipe. "Should say so," was the reply. "Guess I know about everything there worth knowing, especially along shipping lines." "There must be some big firms there, eh?" "Big! I should say so. Why, I could name a dozen right offhand, which have ships sailing around the world.
However, he quickly reflected that it was only by exercising his wits that he could hope to help Nesis. He took the detestable hand and returned an offhand greeting. "You mak' beeg mistak' you try run away," said Watusk. "You mos' safe here." "How is that?" asked Ambrose warily. "I your friend," said Watusk. Ambrose suppressed the inclination to laugh.
When shielding his friend from possible embarrassments, there was such apparent offhand frankness that for the time Oswald forgot former stresses. Even Claude's silences or evasive replies to questions about his friend's past life seemed casual inadvertence or preoccupation. Claude Leslie had easy entrée to both business and social circles.
When I heard Dulcinea del Toboso named, I was struck with surprise and amazement, for it occurred to me at once that these pamphlets contained the history of Don Quixote. With this idea I pressed him to read the beginning, and doing so, turning the Arabic offhand into Castilian, he told me it meant, "History of Don Quixote of La Mancha, written by Cide Hamete Benengeli, an Arab historian."
And for the fraction of a second he was half-minded to tell all he knew to Fullaway there and then and it was only by a still stronger effort of will that he restrained his tongue, determined to keep a stricter silence than ever, and replied to the American in an offhand, casual tone. "News?" he said, with a half-laugh. "Nay, not that I know of. They take their time, those detective chaps.
"Um I guess I could manage it. How long would we be gone?" "A month. Two, if you like. Start the first of July, or as soon after as possible, and get back in August." "How much would it cost us?" inquired Perry. "I'm not a millionaire like you chaps." "Wouldn't want to say offhand. We'd have to figure that. That's another reason for filling the boat up, though.
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