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"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.
It was not precisely a time when he could afford to let his wits go wool-gathering. And he realised that he had been, in a way, more than half-asleep as he walked; even now he was drowsy, his eyes were heavy, his feet leaden and numb with cold besides.
"It's the way she's holding her head." Then, with another start: "But how can you know that?" "Because I saw her only the other day," said Austin. For a moment Aunt Charlotte thought he was wool-gathering. He spoke in such a perfectly calm, natural tone, that he might have been referring to someone who lived in the next street.
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.
"I thought you'd get wool-gathering over some weed or another, and maybe I'd overtake you." They both laughed, and the ice was broken. Dilly got briskly up and gathered a drawer-full of papers into her apron. "I can't stop workin'," she said. "I want to fix it so's not to stay here more'n one night. Now you talk! I know what these are. I can run 'em over an' listen too."
"When you have collected your wits, which at present seem absent on a wool-gathering expedition, perhaps you will tell what you have been dreaming about." "So I will," said Paul, "and perhaps you can interpret it for me. I dreamed that I was back again at Mr. Mudge's, and that he sent me out into the field to dig potatoes. I worked away at the first hill, but found no potatoes.
"Ah, Ben, you've got a joke again' me as 'll last you your life. But it isna religion as was i' fault there; it was Seth Bede, as was allays a wool-gathering chap, and religion hasna cured him, the more's the pity."
What a garden to sing in, in the shade of the yews, with the garden-house behind to make the voice sound better than it is!" Mr. Buxton made a complimentary murmur. "Thank you," she said, "Master Anthony, you are wool-gathering." "Indeed not," he said, "but I was thinking where I had seen a lute. Ah! it is in the little west parlour." "A lute!" cried Mary.
In the years 1793 and 1794, they had so contrived to addle the brains of the multitude that their heads had been wool-gathering ever since; their vision had been then so mystified, and their brains had been so confused by the mountebank tricks of Pitt and his associates, that nothing but the pen of a Cobbett could bring them to their right senses again.
The captain settled back in his chair and was about to continue his "sea yarn," as he called it, to little Ellen, when he suddenly loosened the child from his arms, and leaning forward in his seat toward where Jane sat, broke out with: "God bless me! I believe I'm wool-gathering. I clean forgot what I come for.
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