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On week-days he is slinking about the woods and rocks with his gun, and has generally a hare or a partridge in his bag; but on Sundays he wears a cocked hat, a gold-laced coat with a sword at his side, and he brings down his staff upon the church pavement with a thundering crack at those moments when the wool-gathering mind has to be hurried back and fixed upon the sacredness of the ritual.
Mr Robarts had come round to the generally accepted idea that Mr Crawley had obtained possession of the cheque illegally, acquitting his friend in his own mind of theft, simply by supposing that he was wool-gathering when the cheque came in his way. But in speaking to Mr Crawley, it would be necessary, so he thought, to pretend a conviction that Mr Crawley was as innocent in fact as in intention.
Certainly his wits were wool-gathering again; his eyes, edged with the shadow of a smile, saw far beyond her, far beyond the sunlit shadows where they sat. In his preoccupation she had found him negatively attractive.
It was like a vision, and it held me spell-bound, as I stood shivering on the rocks with the white mist round my knees until into my wool-gathering mind came the memory of those anything but sublime men of mine; and I turned and scuttled off along the rocks like an agitated ant left alone in a dead Universe.
It must have been the magic of the place to which a year is as a second quickly passed, so old is the forest." "Have you been worrying about that all this time, my friend?" she said with a quick laugh, awakening from her revery. "You remind me of my duty," she added gently. "I was wool-gathering." She turned to discover if he had in any measure divined her thoughts.
His sister Livilla execrated the mere notion of his ever becoming emperor. Augustus, his grandfather by adoption, took pains to keep him as much out of sight as possible, as a wool-gathering and discreditable member of the family, denied him all public honours, and left him a most paltry legacy.
"Lord help the lad, his head has been wool-gathering! I thought how it would be when the womankind were admitted no getting a word of sense out of a young fellow for six hours after. Why, man, there was once a people called the Piks" "More properly Picts," interrupted the Baronet. "I say the Pikar, Pihar, Piochtar, Piaghter, or Peughtar," vociferated Oldbuck; "they spoke a Gothic dialect"
Sampson? said Mannering, who observed Miss Bertram looking much alarmed for her simple but attached friend. 'Exorciso, said the Dominie. 'How, sir? replied the astonished Colonel. 'I crave pardon, honourable sir! but my wits 'Are gone a wool-gathering, I think; pray, Mr. Sampson, collect yourself, and let me know the meaning of all this.
Gregory, for example it's quite time that he studied the A B C of engineering and began where James Watt began, instead of merely profiting by the efforts of all the investigators since then. I mean, it's quite time he watched a kettle boil; and Hester would get no harm by mixing a little washing-up with her 'Romeo and Juliet' wool-gathering." "I think you're right," said Mrs.
Anyhow, all at once she laughed, and cried out, 'Well, when you get back...? and, 'Perhaps, she questioned, 'perhaps you think it polite to go off wool-gathering like that? Whereupon I recovered myself with a start, and laughed too. 'But say that you are surprised, say that you are glad, at least, she went on. Surprised! glad! But what did it mean? What was it all about?
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