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And then he told me that in my father's back were three or four pierced wounds, no doubt received from the sharp stubs of underbrushes when he fell. But this, he said, could hardly have been the cause of death. He admitted that the matter seemed mysterious to him. Up to this time we had not thought of the cause of this disaster, nor pondered upon motives, were it worse than accident.
He turned it over, and stared at his name written across the front in a feminine hand In those days young ladies did not write in the bold and masculine manner now deemed proper. Stephen stared at the note, manlike, and pondered. "Who brought it, mother?" "Why don't you open it, and see?" asked his mother with a smile. He took the suggestion. What a funny formal little note we should think it now!
He discovered his error, no doubt, in sackcloth and ashes, poor fellow; but mercifully he had not to endure many years of disenchantment. I can't imagine a worse fate than being tied for life to an automaton!" "Humph!" Mollie pondered, pinching her soft chin between thumb and finger. "He might not be so particular as you... Did you ever... Have you ever, I mean, did you ever meet..."
Growther pondered over the question a few minutes, and then said sententiously: "I'm inclined to think the Lord gives us as good work as we're cap'ble of doin'. He'll promote you when you've growed a little more." The next morning Haldane received a message directing him to report at Mr. Ivison's private office during the noon recess.
This was a full explanation of his mannerism; but the fact that a man with the desire for chess should have grown up without being able to see or engage in a game astonished her not a little. She pondered on the circumstance for some time, looking into vacancy and hindering the play. Mr. Swancourt was sitting with his eyes fixed on the board, but apparently thinking of other things.
In fact, for the last minute or two, his gaze had been a silent one; and any observer might have pondered, considering the sharpness of the perch beneath him, whether he might not be making up his mind to descend from it as soon as his slow-working mentality had had time to convey the decision of his brain to his muscles. Them's my sentiments."
Trace the image through Scripture, from this song till Christ's parable of the man who 'built his house on a rock. II. Every man's experience shows him that there is no such refuge anywhere else. We do not assert that every man consciously comes to that conclusion. All we say is that he would do so if he rightly pondered the facts. The history of every life is a history of disappointment.
"Indeed, I think with what we can make out of the farm and garden and poultry, we ought to be able to manage." But a new and chilling thought had come to the lad. He pondered silently, and as he pondered his face became heavily shadowed. "Say, mother," he said suddenly, "we can't do it. How much are you going to spend on your clothes?" "All I need," said his mother brightly. "But how much?"
I sketched him while sitting in his shirt-sleeves in the veranda, with his Letts's Diary on his knee; and the likeness on the frontispiece is an admirable portrait of him, because the artist who has assisted me, has with an intuitive eye, seen the defects in my own sketch; and by this I am enabled to restore him to the reader's view exactly as I saw him as he pondered on what he had witnessed during his long marches.
Yet the men had told me something with their words, and I pondered long on the remark of the Irishman, that the "guv'ner" wanted me alive. It explained much; and it put beyond doubt the reason why I had not been killed in the drinking den.
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