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But at sixty, with his best work all done and his decline begun, he succumbed preposterously to a flirtatious damsel of eighteen, and thereafter, until actual insanity released him, he mooned like a provincial actor in a sentimental melodrama.
He took again one of his turns, not meeting what she had last said; he mooned a minute, as he would have called it, at a window; and of course she could see that she had driven him to the wall. She did clearly, without delay, see it; on which her sense of having "caught" him became as promptly a scruple, which she spoke as if not to press.
I mooned on until at last I wound up in the Pan Handle without a red copper, an' my pony sore footed an' lookin' like what a crow gets when the coyotes invite him out to dinner. I drew rein one night along side a most allurin' camp fire. I had noticed the herd when I came along in, an' they was dandies; big solid five-year-olds, hog fat, but they wasn't contented kept fidgetin' around.
He said the Injuns of this neighbourhood were more'n half heathen in their minds, but he was too old, and settled down now, and couldn't help it. It didn't appear to trouble him much. He wondered if Senor de Avila knew he was that gruesome and popular; and then he mooned along, talking sort of wandering, till near midnight.
"Yes, she is, and rather amusing, too, in a footling sort of way. She's got a fearful appetite, and she thinks of herself all day long. I know because she damn near ruined me over cream buns once." "I suppose Gilbert was in love with her?..." "I suppose so. He didn't tell me and I didn't ask, but he mooned about with her and looked awfully sloppy when he passed her things. You know what I mean.
As, in the oldest Hebrew rites and Pagan superstitions, men traced the promise of a coming Messiah, as the deliverers and kings of the Old Testament, and even the demigods of heathendom, became accepted types of the person of Christ, so the Eve of the Mosaic history, the Astarte of the Assyrians "The mooned Ashtaroth, queen and mother both,"
I remember meeting a painter at Lord Dunfolly's, Dunfolly is a singular fellow and he struck me chiefly as harmless, distinctly harmless. I could not understand why he was at Dunfolly's, he seemed of so little use, though Lady Malfire, who writes or something, mooned with him a good deal. I believe there was some scandal or something afterwards. I really do not know.
Mitchy's momentary renewal of stillness was addressed, he somehow managed not obscurely to convey, to the last clause of his friend's speech. "If you're not sure," he presently resumed, "why can't you frankly ask him?" Vanderbank again, as the phrase is, "mooned" about a little. "Because I don't know that it would do." "What do you mean by 'do'?"
It would be visionary to take the past, dump it around in front of one, and try to make a future out of it. I do not deny what people tell me about millionaires and about factory slaves. I have not mooned or lied or turned away my face. I stand by time one live, right, implacable, irrevocable, prolific exception.
But Jim was changed; he mooned around Bella, of course, as before, but he was abstracted at times, and all that day Sunday he wandered off by himself, and one would come across him unexpectedly in the basement or along some of the unused back halls. Aunt Selina held service that morning. Jim said that he always had a prayer book, but that he couldn't find anything with so many people in the house.
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