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"I remember," she replied, smiling and rolling up her knitting, "that we sometimes had to suspend specie payments. Ah, well, we were happy." When left alone, it was Helen's turn to say, "Now your thoughts are wool-gathering. You don't see the fire when you look at it that way." "No, I suppose not," replied Martine. "I'll be more frank than you.
"Is this you, Beauty Steele?" he said, and he caught his brown beard in his hand. "Beauty Steele had brains and no heart. You have heart, and your wits have gone wool-gathering. No matter! he sang, and came quickly along the stream where the flax-beaters worked in harvest-time, then up the hill, then Rosalie. She started to her feet. "I knew you would come I knew you would!" she said.
Staples is the solicitor who did the business about Admiral Chester's legacy. He is retired now, and only holds some county office. He found me out last week, I believe, from some letters of mine going wool-gathering to the other F. Underwood. He called and said he knew my father, and was very civil and friendly. He sent to inquire after you the day you came. This is what he says:
The consequence of this system is, that I gain some credit, more or less, for nearly everything I undertake." "Indeed, you do," exclaimed Buttar enthusiastically. "I wish that I were like you; but my thoughts are constantly wool-gathering, whatever I am about. Now, Ellis is like you. He can keep his mind fixed on his work, whether mental or physical; and see how rapidly he has got on.
So they sat there wool-gathering, striking a few blows with the hammer now and then for appearance's sake, and one or another would fall asleep again over the table. They all started when three blows were struck on the wall as a signal for Pelle. "What are you doing? It seems to me you are very idle in there!" the master would say, staring suspiciously at Pelle.
Skipping thus lightly over a matter of such consequence, the thoughts of the hare-brained boy went a wool-gathering after more agreeable topics.
Janet, with a sigh, looked back to the days when she had been eight and twenty, a very happy, independent young lady indeed, not long before she had met and married her quiet, wool-gathering John, so losing her independence for ever. "I suppose you haven't heard the great news," she exclaimed, forgetting that Timmy was there. "What news?" asked Betty. She glanced at her step-mother.
If thou thinkest thou couldst win him over to take us back to live in his house again, which is my own house, to be sure, if I had my rights, thy wits are wool-gathering, I can tell thee that," cried Jeanne. "He has the pride of ten thousand devils in him.
"Eh?" said Buck. "Wasn't what?" "Nothing," replied Emma McChesney. "I'm wool-gathering this morning. I'm afraid it's going to take me a day or two to get back into harness again." "If you'd rather wait, if you think you'll be more fit to-morrow or the day after, we'll wait. There's no real hurry. I just thought " But Mrs.
For myself, my wits were still wool-gathering, still were striving to remember something which for the life of me I could not manage to remember.
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