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Updated: May 14, 2025


And he fell a-musing over his condition and that which had betided him.

'Which would seem, said Martin, pursuing the current of his own thoughts, 'to be the principal recreation they enjoy in common. With that, he fell a-musing again on dollars, demagogues, and bar-rooms; debating within himself whether busy people of this class were really as busy as they claimed to be, or only had an inaptitude for social and domestic pleasure.

"I guess I must have a clean up before lunch," and she made for the door. I looked at my watch. "You just have time," said I. I opened the door for her to pass out, and fell a-musing in front of the fire.

Scougall would choose the best successor. Before he married I could have trusted his judgment." She fell a-musing again. "Archibald is here in Plymouth," she added inconsequently. "My nephew, you know." I nodded, and asked, "Is he quartered here?" "Why, how did you know he was in the Army?" "You told me Major Arthur was saving up to buy him a commission." "How well you remember!" she sighed.

He thus answered the Bee: "You shall have your request, but it will be at the peril of your own life. For if you use your sting, it shall remain in the wound you make, and then you will die from the loss of it." Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost. The Milk-Woman and Her Pail A FARMER'S daughter was carrying her Pail of milk from the field to the farmhouse, when she fell a-musing.

I thanked him for his solicitude, and retiring to my chamber, fell a-musing on what had passed and reproached myself grievously for my meddlesomeness in kicking the alcove. Presently the tailor came in to me and said, "O my son, there is without an old man, a foreigner, who seeks thee.

And now the fresh air makes me as hungry as a hunter. Do get me something nice, please." When he came back, the mails and luggage had been got on board. The water began to seethe and foam away from the paddle-wheels, and, with a pleasant hoot, the boat steamed away. And then, as Morgan leaned against the side, he fell a-musing on many things, all woven in a web of wonder at his happiness.

He would have admitted, however, that he found quiet, for the soul as well as the body, upon this edge of the world, this brink of the gulf that swallowed the ever-pouring ever-vanishing Niagara of human life. On the stone he now seated himself and fell a-musing.

She stopped awhile and fell a-musing, and her face softened, and she turned to him with that sweet happy look upon it and said: 'Desolate and dreary is the Dale, thou deemest, friend; and yet for me I love it and its dark-green water, and it is to me as if the Fathers of the kindred visit it and hold converse with us; and there I grew up when I was little, before I knew what a woman was, and strange communings had I with the wilderness.

Phipps sat on his bed for some time examining, with equal disgust, a collar he would have thought incredible for Sunday twenty-four hours before. Mrs. Milton fell a-musing on the mortality of even big, fat men with dog-like eyes, and Widgery was unhappy because he had been so cross to her at the station, and because so far he did not feel that he had scored over Dangle.

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