1 She said I was trying to marry George Dorset.
2 But Louisa spoils it all by trying to repress him and put herself forward.
3 The lady's habits were marked by an Oriental indolence and disorder peculiarly trying to her companion.
4 It was at this point, perhaps, that a joy just trying its wings in Gerty's heart dropped to earth and lay still.
5 They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade.
6 She had not thought of her own situation at all: she was simply engrossed in trying to put a little order in theirs.
7 "I thought, after all, the air might do me good," she explained; and he agreed that so simple a remedy was worth trying.
8 He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour.
9 Before this she had sent her maid to enquire if she might see Mrs. Dorset; but the reply came back that the latter was tired, and trying to sleep.
10 She had no immediate intention of repeating to Lily what she had heard, or even of trying to ascertain its truth by means of discreet interrogation.
11 When she was last here, two weeks ago, she seemed dreadfully worried about her future: she said Carry Fisher was trying to find something for her to do.
12 An hour later, at Mrs. Fisher's side in the Casino gardens, he was trying to find fresh reasons for forgetting the injury received in the contemplation of the peril avoided.
13 As he leaned back, silently contemplating his filigree cup of Turkish coffee, he was trying to put some order in his thoughts, to tell himself how the news of her nearness was really affecting him.
14 But he could never be long with her without trying to find a reason for what she was doing, and as she replaced his first edition of La Bruyere and turned away from the bookcases, he began to ask himself what she had been driving at.
15 Strive as she would to put some order in her thoughts, the words would not come more clearly; yet she felt that she could not leave him without trying to make him understand that she had saved herself whole from the seeming ruin of her life.
16 Light comes in devious ways to the groping consciousness, and it came to her now through the disgusted perception that her would-be accomplice assumed, as a matter of course, the likelihood of her distrusting him and perhaps trying to cheat him of his share of the spoils.
17 At the farther end of the room a stage had been constructed behind a proscenium arch curtained with folds of old damask; but in the pause before the parting of the folds there was little thought of what they might reveal, for every woman who had accepted Mrs. Bry's invitation was engaged in trying to find out how many of her friends had done the same.
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