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Then you, even with your good humour, would be always on the fret and worrit, always uncomfortable in your own mind, always a-thinking as you was getting too old for my taste, always a-picturing me to yourself as being chained up to the Dragon door, and wanting to break away. I don't know that it would be so, said Mark, 'but I don't know that it mightn't be. I am a roving sort of chap, I know.
"And it is so much more comfortable to be a-thinking when one's in bed," said Jeannette, who was present at the time. "Child, hold your tongue," said the widow. "Yes, ma'am," said Jeannette. But we'll return to the scene at the breakfast-table. "What don't you understand, aunt?" "You only danced twice last night, and once you stood up with Captain Bellfield."
The noise, the hubbub, was now quite close at hand, and he fell a-thinking how he could best, with fair words, persuade these turbulent citizens to go back to their homes and begin weaving linen and stitching boots again, though he longed all the time to storm forth amongst them and like a tempest scatter them in every direction. The whole of the broad street was entirely covered with caps.
Mr Venus here being too milk and watery with you, I am the boy for you. 'I've been a-thinking, said Mr Boffin, in a tone of despondency, 'that I must keep the knowledge from my old lady. 'The knowledge of the diwision, d'ye mean? inquired Wegg, helping himself to a third Gum-Tickler for he had already taken a second. 'Yes.
But the attacking party, after a recoil, came on again as stubbornly as ever, and it was plain enough to those who handled the firearms that it was only a question of time before the besieged would be beaten by numbers; and Don shuddered as he thought of the massacre that must ensue. He had been looking round, and then found that Jem was eyeing him fixedly. "Just what I was a-thinking, Mas' Don.
Had the move from the Old World to this the decision in which she had rashly aided with youthful advice been a good or a bad thing for him and for the people to whom he had come? From this she fell a-thinking upon her own life as, in the light of Trenholme's letter, the contrast of her present womanly self with the bright, audacious girl of that past time was set strongly before her.
Pond Lily Lake until snow flies ah, but it's a great country down there!" "I'm a-thinking if I do much doctoring and we fetch greedy Buster, little Squealer, and those mischievous twinnies of yours home safe and sound, that it will not be all vacation fun between now and snow-time," said Grand-daddy. "Better tuck the kiddies into the blankets early, Hezekiah.
Luke's Square were not inconceivable without Maggie. "But why " "Well, Mrs. Povey, I've been a-thinking it over in my kitchen, and I said to myself: 'If there's going to be one change there'd better be two, I says. Not but what I wouldn't work my fingers to the bone for ye, Miss Constance." Here Maggie began to cry into the tray. Constance looked at her.
'Thou'll not have been understanding why Alice Rose spoke as she did this morning, said Jeremiah Foster to Philip, on the afternoon succeeding the final discussion of this plan. 'She was a-thinking of her youth, I reckon, when she was a well-favoured young woman, and our John was full of the thought of marrying her. As he could not have her, he has lived a bachelor all his days.
'You're a pretty good shot, I gather? 'Thank you, sir. 'Any instruction in musketry? 'Pretty fair, sir. 'Put him through his facings, Sergeant, in the riding school at four o'clock this afternoon. I'll be there. You hear, Jervase? 'Yes, sir. At this juncture the Sergeant surprised a wink from Volnay, which that young gentleman supposed to have been unseen, and he fell a-thinking.
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