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"There!" she said, and patted him on the cheek, to show that the task had been successfully accomplished. "Better come along for a little spin," he said, readjusting the tie with man-like ingenuousness. "Do you good, Lou." "Very well," she said. "Can you wait a few minutes?" "Long as you like," said he graciously. "Ask Maud if she wants to come, too."
Quickly readjusting the machinery of his mind, Rogers came back to the present, 'Good morning, Mr. Rogers. I trust I am punctual. 'Good morning, Minks; yes, on the stroke of ten. We've got a busy day. Let's see now. How are you, by the by? he added, as an afterthought, catching first one eye, then the other, and looking finally between the two. 'Very well, indeed, thank you, Mr.
Along with these, dovetailed in as opportunity offered, in a sailing-ship under way there went on the work of readjusting the yards and sails; a pull here and a pull there, like a woman getting herself into shape after sitting too long in one position.
They had been good comrades since the first evil day; they had become good friends even; and Westover was touched by the boy's devotion at parting. He helped the painter get his pack together in good shape, and he took pride in strapping it on Westover's shoulders, adjusting and readjusting it with care, and fastening it so that all should be safe and snug.
Two adorable little girls who are sitting on opposite sides of their mother are almost overcome by delight in something which is much too subtle to be comprehended by the adult mind, the drafts in the coal stove need readjusting, how noisy the cars are out on the highway today, the wind howls around the corner and rattles the old pre-revolutionary glass in the window sashes.
"Every day," she answered. "To theatres and dances?" he asked. "I have no time for such frivolities," she answered, laughingly. "I am a working woman now, with every moment occupied." "Pshaw!" he answered, impatiently. "You need readjusting; you all need readjusting. Life was never intended to be a mere drudgery."
Next time he spoke his voice was a bit throaty. "Will it stiffen?" "You've lost the knee-joint," the doctor said, "but with luck we'll save the leg." His voice sank to a whisper. "If you do, it won't be much good, will it?" "Not much." He lay for a couple of hours silent, readjusting his mind to meet the new conditions. Then he commenced talking with cheerfulness about returning to his family.
What arrested him now as of value in life was less its beauty than its pathos. Having long discredited the old systems of mysticism, he now began to discredit the old appraisements of morality. He thought they wanted readjusting. Who was the moral man? Still more pertinently, who was the moral woman?
She might not get an opportunity to drop anything for some time after leaving the fork." "That's true, sir," said Cooler; "the redskins would naturally be watching her closely. Which way will you go, Paul?" "Let the liftinint say," answered the elder scout, tightening his belt and readjusting his equipments for resuming his riding.
The meal passed with no further reference, open or covert, to the thing which was uppermost in the minds of all. Many a curious glance, however, went to where Conniston sat. He was conscious of them even when he did not see them, understood that a new appraisal of him was being made swiftly, that his fellow-workers were carefully readjusting their first conceptions and judgments of him.
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