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The dried little man whose name was Dave Wiswell came walking curiously up the fresh-made "street," his sharp eyes taking in the falsity of the whole row of shack-houses that had no backs; bald behind as board fences, save where two-by-fours braced them from falling. Luck scowled at him preoccupiedly, nodded a good morning, and turned abruptly to the others. "Listen.
He gathered them up and slowly trickled them through his fingers. Sapphires, unset, beautiful as a woman's eyes. He replaced them in the chamois bag; and for the rest of the afternoon went about his affairs preoccupiedly, grave as a bishop under his miter. For, all said and done, he had much to be grave about.
This meant very little to Marjorie, but she waited another ten minutes before she asked again. "Just the same post road as before," said Francis preoccupiedly, letting the machine out till they were going at some unbelievable speed an hour. "The Albany. Not the Boston."
It seemed to him that there was a good deal to be done before daylight. Preoccupiedly he took a big handful of waste and began to polish the hood and fenders of the car. His mother would want to drive, and she always made a fuss if he left any dust to dim its glossy splendor.
Mose made the suggestion preoccupiedly, with his eyes discreetly wandering over the landscape, as if he had suddenly missed some accustomed feature of it. Parker lowered the glass and glanced at him suspiciously. "No, sir-ee! If there's any backin' done there, Barden'll do it. She'll make 'im crawfish out o' sight when she ketches 'im.
He was preoccupiedly reviewing the she-said-and-then-I-said, and trying to make up his mind whether he should kiss her and take a chance on her displeasure, or whether he had better wait. To him Marie appeared hazily as another camper who helped fill the car and his pocket and was not at all hard to look at.
Betty was much impressed with her first near view of the immense derricks. "What a lot of them!" she said. "Just like a forest, isn't it, Uncle Dick?" Her uncle frowned preoccupiedly. "Those are not our fields," he announced curtly. "They're mostly the property of small lease-holders.
"I'm glad that I haven't wholly forgotten how to be one," answered her brother, as he kissed first his little niece, and then the basket which she held up with the demand that it be paid similar homage, and bade them good-night. Rejoining the diminished group in the living-room, Donald was preoccupiedly silent, until his father asked,
Aunt Abby pondered. Then, her eyes flashing, she cried, "Do you mean he put the dropper in my room to throw suspicion on me, instead of on his wife?" "There is a chance for such a theory." "Sanford wouldn't do such a thing! He was truly fond of me!" "But to save his wife?" "I never thought of all that. Maybe he did or, maybe he dropped the thing accidentally " "Maybe." Stone spoke preoccupiedly.
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