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"Your sister was telling me that you might pick out a very rich wife here, among the girls." "Yes, my sister would like me to live here, in a foreign country, in cowlike tranquillity, looking at pictures and statues, and travelling pointlessly. That wouldn't be living for me; I am not a society man. I require excitement, danger.... Though I warn you that I am not in the least courageous."
Cashmore out five minutes ago." Vanderbank showed for the next short time by his behaviour what he felt at not yet being free to act on this; moving pointlessly about the room while the servants arranged the tea-table and taking no trouble to make, for appearance, any other talk. Mrs.
She gathered herself together to add, pointlessly, "Juliet says she's going to Europe. Have you ever been?" "Not to Europe, no. I always feel as if I wanted to see my own country first. Is she going soon?" "Who? Juliet? Oh, no! She was just saying so. I don't believe she's engaged her passage yet."
Pointlessly, ridiculously, they rose and walked about the table; seen thus, all that they did appeared incongruous it was as though they were being jiggled carelessly and to no purpose by invisible overhead wires. She looked at her watch it was eight o'clock.
Saviour's. There was not a more restless soul or body in all the hemisphere than the soul and body of Carmen Barbille, as she went from this to that on the morning when Jean Jacques had refrained from killing the soul-disturber, the master-carpenter, who had with such skill destroyed the walls and foundations of his home. Carmen was pointlessly busy as she watched for the return of Jean Jacques.
'You're not very successful down here, Fleetwood said, without greeting. 'The countess likes the air of this country, said Gower, evasively, impertinently, and pointlessly; offensively to the despot employing him to be either subservient or smart. 'I wish her to leave it. 'She wishes to see you first. 'She takes queer measures.
Can, for instance, anything more wantonly and pointlessly insulting be imagined than his assertion that an intelligent and well-informed American would probably name the pork-packing of Chicago as the thing best worth seeing in the United States?
Assingham richly launched while her younger friend, unresistingly moved, became uncertain again, and then, not too much to show it or, rather, positively to conceal it, and to conceal something more as well turned short round to one of the windows and awkwardly, pointlessly waited.
Ferguson sprinted back down the hill, the girl screaming pointlessly meanwhile. There was just time you'll have to take my word for this; Ferguson explained it all to me in the most meticulous detail, but I can't repeat that masterpiece of exposition for Ferguson to decide. To decide again, you understand, precisely as he had decided on the Argentina. Rotten luck, wasn't it?
Assingham richly launched while her younger friend, unresistingly moved, became uncertain again, and then, not too much to show it or, rather, positively to conceal it, and to conceal something more as well turned short round to one of the windows and awkwardly, pointlessly waited.
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