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There were two or three minutes of which I remember nothing but the roaring of water. I think I must have been caught under the sail, for the next I knew I was struggling from beneath its stiff whiteness, and as I looked about, dazed, behold! we had passed the reefs and lay rocking quietly. I saw that first, and then I saw Cary's head as it bent over something he held in his arms and it was Sally!
To the dazed and gazing boys these people might have come from Greenland, so enveloped were they in defences against the cold.
But he had never consciously set eyes on her before in all his life! Stratton's first feeling was that the girl must have made a mistake. In a dazed fashion he stepped forward and helped her out of the buckboard, but this was a more or less mechanical action and because she so evidently expected it.
Again she flew and alighted, and again and still again, until after five successive bumps she fell sprawling upon a green meadow and was so dazed and bewildered by her bumpy journey across the Merry-Go-Round Mountains that she lay quite still for a time to collect her thoughts. Toto had escaped from her arms just as she fell, and he now sat beside her panting with excitement.
A shade of relief passed over Ailse's features as this assurance was repeated, and I coming forward at this moment, the representative of the church militant betook herself off, while I entered and spoke to Ailse, who, fairly dazed, sank into a chair, and stared me helplessly in the face.
"Ye ye ain't goin' to get sick again, are ye?" He arose and came nearer, and the man drew back, with a gesture of loathing. "Your father was Joseph Symonds!" he repeated, dazed. Tim had a fashion, when he was very much interested in anything his friend was saying, of seizing a button of the man's coat and twisting it.
He knew no more but that horses and men seemed for ever trampling over him and treading him down, and then all was lost to him for how long he knew not, but for one second he was roused so far as to hear a furious growling and barking of Watch, but with dazed senses he thought it was over the sheep, tried to raise himself, could not, thought himself dying, and sank back again.
His excitement had cooled abruptly: he seemed dazed. At this moment my private stenographer entered to inform me that I was being called up on the telephone from New York. "Well, you have more important affairs to attend to, I won't bother you any more," he added. "Hold on," I exclaimed, "this call can wait. I'd like to talk it over with you."
He took it with him to the woods, and lay at full length on the moss. Although he had been alone now for more than forty-eight hours a July quiet reigned over the place he had not managed to think connectedly. He was still dazed, disbelieving of what had happened.
He was nineteen, and in the morning he was going to Oxford to begin his first term there. He had so long looked forward to it that he felt dazed by the nearness of his goal. He was a good-looking boy, with honest eyes and a firm mouth. His only sister, Jean, four years older than himself, left the table and sat on the edge of the box watching him.
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