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Updated: June 2, 2025
There's summut in th' weather, I reckon, as sets folk a-wandering. My measter, him at th' shop yonder, is spinning about th' world somewhere. 'Is that the reason you're so soon at home to-night? asked Margaret innocently. 'Thou know'st nought about it, that's all, said he, contemptuously. 'I'm not one wi' two faces one for my measter, and t'other for his back.
One evening I had taken a walk to Victoria Park a favourite haunt of mine at summer time. It was a fair and peaceful evening, and I fell a-wandering there in pleasant reverie, until the waning light hinted to me the question of time. I looked about me. Only one human being was in sight, a man with his back towards me, seated upon a bench overlooking the ornamental water. I drew nearer.
"We shall see of what you are made," he cried. "If you blast me in the act, I'll strike you!" I laughed again, and raising my arm I gave him the nozzle of a pistol to contemplate. "Stand where you are, St. Auban, or, by the God above us, I'll send your ghost a-wandering," quoth I coolly.
"And, Monsieur, perchance you may see old mad Michel. What! you know naught of him? Country folk do say his grandam witnessed the murder of the Count, and that it sent her feeble mind a-wandering. Her child through all her life did fancy herself the Count, and made strange speeches to the people's fear.
Fruen knew what she was doing, no doubt; she wanted to pay off old scores, and be away when her husband came home. She was all indecision, would and would not, would and would not, all the time; but the idea was there. And I, simple soul I had not set out a-wandering on purpose to attend to the particular interests of married folk in love or out of it. 'Twas their affair!
My golden youth I'm squandering, Sun-libertine am I, A-wandering, a-wandering, Until the day I die. And then he stood for minutes drinking in deep breaths of the pure, sweet air of the new day. Beside him, a head taller, savagely strong, stood Billy Byrne, his broad shoulders squared, his great chest expanding as he inhaled. "It's great, ain't it?" he said, at last.
"Old folks have their notions," said she, "as well as young ones. You've been wishing and planning and letting your heads run on one thing and another till you've set my mind a-wandering too. Now, what should an old woman wish for, when she can go but a step or two before she comes to her grave? Children, it will haunt me night and day till I tell you."
A month and a half." "THIRTY-SEVEN YEAR and he come out in China. THAT'S the kind. I wish the bottom of THIS fortress was solid rock." "JIM don't know nobody in China." "What's THAT got to do with it? Neither did that other fellow. But you're always a-wandering off on a side issue. Why can't you stick to the main point?"
She quiets me. Brother Jacques may come in half an hour; after him, Monsieur le Comte. I wish to have done with all things and die in peace." So Jehan went in search of Sister Benie. When she came in her angelic face was as white as the collaret which encircled her throat, and the scar was more livid than usual. Alas, the marquis's mind had gone a-wandering again: the coal dimmed.
No, sir, we've been a-wandering wandering 'way down south of east, and it's my opinion we are in Africa. Look at this map. You see how the shoulder of Africa sticks out to the west. Think how fast we've traveled; if we had gone straight east we would be long past England by this time.
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