" "Is Milagros going to be a nun?" asked Sarrion, absent-mindedly.

Selfish ambition was conspicuously absent.

Susan Larkin frequently visited her, and Modbury was seldom absent.

He had even been to church with Miss Duryea, temporarily absenting himself for that purpose of a Sunday morning from the steam-heated flat whereunknown to her, of coursehe lived with his white wife, Emma Pratt, a lady of highly miscellaneous antecedents.

Nimrood, who was fortunately absent, detests Europeans, and would probably have made matters even worse for us.

" An hour after in came a brisk junior stating that his leader was unavoidably absent.

The poor cavaliere feels that this is a bad beginning; but he quickly consoles himselfhe was of a hopeful temperament, and saw life serenely and altogether in rose-colorby remembering that the count is habitually absent, also that he habitually uses strong language, and that he had probably not been so absorbed by the wrongs of Italy as he pretends.

Some of the faults she lamented seemed to others remarkably absent in the duchess Evil speaking, for example, was about the last thing she could be accused of.

With Browning it is the same in a certain degree; there is a charm about Pauline, for all its immaturity, which creates an irrepressible, uncalculating mood of undefined longing, utterly absent from his latest work.

The Class-conscious Proletarian of All Lands is curiously absent from this land.

They did not see him again for many days, and when he came, very briefly, speaking of business technicalities which absorbed him, he was noticeably absent and careworn.

Still, it was now rarely absent from her mind; the love she bore the captain and his wife, and Beulah, and little Evert, coming to her heart through a more insidious and possibly tenderer tie, than that of purely filial or sisterly affection.

" Under all the circumstances, I concluded to absent myself permanently at least until Major Rinehart's soldiers should move on.

Good harbors and navigable waterways are notably absent along the west coast of South America and notably present in the Eastern Mediterranean.

" "I am all attention, master," said Sue vaguely, and her eyes wide-open, obviously absent, she gazed fixedly on the silhouette of Sir Marmaduke, grimly outlined against the grayish window-panes.

This is a certain genially humorous conception of the whole, quite apart from and beyond the mere introduction of comedy and farce, which we have never found so marked before, and which has indeed been painfully absent from the pastoral since Tasso penned the final chorus of the Aminta.

An island, that is cut off from much communication with the rest of the earth, and from which two-thirds of the males must be periodically absent, would be very likely to reach perfection in the art of gossiping, which includes that of the listener.

The count, having continued persistently absent up to the last, was utterly unconscious of the little fracas that had taken place between the marchesa and the cavaliere, and the consequent sudden conclusion of the game.

No direct notice was taken of this allusion at the moment, Fox himself, who had the chief share of the Prince's confidence, being accidentally absent; but a day or two afterward he referred to Rolle's speech with great indignation, declaring that it referred to a "low, malicious calumny" which had no foundation whatever, and "was only fit to impose on the lowest order of persons."

" This I knew to be true, though I purposely absented myself from a scene that I well understood would have to be repeated in my case.

But she had observed, her husband was regularly absent during three days in the week; and, suspecting there must be something mysterious in this periodical disappearance, resolved, if possible, to extort the secret.

"My dear," murmured Lady Agnes sleepily, "forgive me, but I have such a shockingly absent mind."

She too had always taken pleasure in these little meetings and in the gay talk they had as they sped down toward the cavern; but her delight was singularly absent to-day.

That natty regiment, the Orleans Guards, was drilling (in French, superbly) on the smooth, empty ground where both to Anna's and to Flora's silent notice all the up-river foodstuffscorn, bacon, pork, meal, flourwere so staringly absent, while down in yonder streets their lack was beginning to be felt by a hundred and twenty-five thousand consumers.

Certain classical words, partly owing to their allusiveness, partly owing to their sound, possess a remarkable flavour which is totally absent from those of Saxon derivation.