distrait

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Though weary and distrait, Margu�rite Garth was of too frank a disposition to allow such an extraordinary incident to pass without comment.

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But Kipps was distrait for some seconds, perhaps, and the mischief had begun in him.

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Slyne grew somewhat distrait and restless as the long dinner ran its course, and Carthew had to devote more attention to the duchess.

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I found my cousin distrait, absent, moody, sad, preoccupied, unlike herself.

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Then bowing with a distrait air to Doctor Dufour, whom he had always treated with such affectionate cordiality before, Frederick approached his mother and said: "Come, mother, let us go."

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