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A handbook would give us these minor details in an hour's reading; but we prefer to sit vacuously making feeble jokes about the singers or the occupants of the neighboring boxes, without a single intelligent thought as to why the composer attempted to write precisely this sort of an opera, when he did it, or how far he succeeded.
After dusk, when she was likely to end the day's drive in the first sizable place, he hid his bug in an alley and, like a spy after the papers, sneaked into each garage to see if her car was there. He would stroll in, look about vacuously, and pipe to the suspicious night attendant, "Seen a traveling man named Smith?" Usually the garage man snarled, "No, I ain't seen nobody named Smith.
The match burned to her finger-ends, and fell to the floor. Darkness enveloped them again. "You!" he repeatedly vacuously. The blackness and the silence seemed to blanket and smother him, like something tangible to the touch. He took three steps toward where she still stood motionless, and in an agonized whisper cried out to her: "My God, Frank, what is it?"
They talked of his father and of Ann Davidson whom Ruth declared was to be pitied of the wonderful coincidence that that particular paper, the one containing the "Personal" and the "Engagement in High Life" item, should have been on top of the pile in the boathouse, and of other things. Occasionally the talk lapsed, and the substitute assistant merely looked, looked and smiled vacuously.
"I say, what's the idea of the pall-bearers?" The youth's expression froze to one of disapproval and suspicion. "I mean the parade. Are these fellows Congress- or minstrel-men?" His hearer shrugged and smiled vacuously, then turned away, whereupon Mitchell took him firmly by the arm. "Look here, my boy," he began. "There seems to be a lot of information coming to both of us.
Hans, however, remained cheerful, for the reason, as he remarked vacuously, that the Great Medicine was with us and that therefore, however bad things seemed to be, all in fact was well; an argument that carried no conviction to my soul. It was on a certain evening towards sunset that I went away thus alone. I looked about me, east and west and north.
"What's the matter?" "Uh? Matter?" echoed Alderson vacuously. Then he pounded the desk with his fat fist while his face grew red. "Matter!" he shouted. "You're a heluva detective, you are! That's what's the matter. The mon I mean the papers in the satchel, you fathead! stolen right under your nose!" Swearing fervently, Alderson grabbed the telephone and called for Podmore at the Queen's Hotel.
At times he half-rose from his chair, and fell vacuously into it again; or he chuckled in the face of weighty, severely-worded instructions; tapped his chest, stretched his arms, yawned, and in short behaved so singularly that Richard observed it, and said: "On my soul, I don't think you know a word I'm saying." "Every word, Ricky!" Ripton spirted through the opening.
An' theer wings whistle like a hawk arter a pigeon. 'Because o' the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it." He relapsed into absolute silence and sat with his eyes on the fire. Sometimes he shook, sometimes he nodded his head; now he frowned, then grinned vacuously at the current of his thoughts. Mr.
When Bower turned up last week they met as very old friends, I can assure you." "Obviously a prearranged affair," said Mrs. Vavasour. "None of us has had a look in since," grinned Georgie vacuously. "Even Reggie de la Vere, who is a deuce of a fellah with the girls, could not get within yards of her." This remark found scant favor with his audience.
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