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Silk weavers usin' the same old, onhandy looms they used centuries ago, ivory carvers fashionin' elephants and other animals, and all on 'em tryin' to sell to us in their high-pitched voices. I had quite a number of emotions here in China a musin' on the oldness and strangeness of their civilization, and wonderin' if it would ever be merged into a newer, fresher life.
And he said, sort o' dreamily, "that he was." And then agin silence rained. He was a thinkin', I knew, on all the deep dangers that hedged in Josiah Allen and America if he come. And a musin' on all the probable dangers of the Plan. And a thinkin' it over how to do jest right in the matter, right by Josiah, right by the nation, right by me.
"What's them pecooliar views of hisn you was goin' to speak to us, Doc?" said Absalom. "Och, yes, I was goin' to tell you them. Well, here this after we got to talkin' about the subjeck of prayer, and I ast him his opinion. And if I understood right what he meant, why, prayin' is no different to him than musin'. Leastways, that's the thought I got out of his words." "Musin'," repeated Absalom.
I may have been a fire-eater once I may have been a gay young feller as could ; but no matter. Avast musin'! As Lord Bacon says 'The light of other days is faded, An' all their glory 'a past; My boots no longer look as they did, But, like my coat, are goin' fast. But I say, leftenant, how long do you mean to keep pullin' about here, without an enemy, or, as far as I can see, an object in view?
But what amused Peggy most, and caused her to laugh aloud as she took a spoonful of luscious sliced peaches, was the manner in which the letter was addressed. Old Jerome who was serving her in the pretty delft breakfast-room took an old retainer's privilege to ask: "What 'musin' you, honey-chile?" "Didn't know I was an esquire, did you, Jerome? Well I am, because this letter says so.
"And do you say," demanded Absalom, indignantly, "that Teacher he says it's the same to him as prayin' this here musin'?" "So much as I know, that's what he sayed." "Well," declared Absalom, "that there ain't in the Bible! He'd better watch out! If he ain't a Bible Christian, pop and Jake Getz and the other directors'll soon put him off William Penn!"
When dressing himself, with an intention of taking an early walk, he was asked by his friend why he stirred so soon, or if he his host should accompany him. "No," replied Owen; "lie still; jist let me look over the counthry while it's asleep. When I'm musin' this a-way I don't like anybody to be along wid me.
"What's musin'?" "Yes, what's that ag'in?" asked Mrs. Wackernagel, alert with curiosity, theological discussions being always of deep interest to her. "Musin' is settin' by yourself and thinkin' of your learnin'," explained the doctor. "I've took notice, this long time back, educated persons they like to set by theirselves, still, and muse."
"Well, I'd like to know where at? Where had he took himself to?" "Up to the woods there by the old mill. I come on him there at five o'clock layin' readin' and musin' when I was takin' a short cut home through the woods comin' from Adam Oberholzer's." "Well I never!" cried Amanda. "And was he out there all by hisself the whole afternoon?" she asked incredulously. "So much as I know.
Yours was a hand that talked as much as your lips or face, as honest and white; and the palm all pink, and strong as strong could be, and warmin' every thread in a man's body when he touched it. Well, I touched your hand then, and you looked at me and nodded, and went musin' into the fire again, not seemin' to hear our gabble.
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