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Updated: May 13, 2025
I am very well assured, O new invested Husband, that your wits at present run a Wool-gathering, because that both Merchandize and Trade are neither of them so quick as you would fain see them; and by reason of this tedious and destructive War, monies is horrible scarce, nothing near so plentifull as you could wish it to be: But comfort your self herewith, that it hath hapned oft-times to others, & will yet also happen oftner to you.
"I cannot fathom you, Carlyle." "You will do that better, possibly, when Richard shall have made his disclosure." "It's it's never his own father that he accuses? Justice Hare?" "Your wits must be wool-gathering, Ball." "Well, so they must, to give utterance to so preposterous a notion," acquiesced the attorney, pushing back his chair and throwing his breakfast napkin on the carpet.
All was so pleasant and so full of the gentle joy of the bright Maytime, that for a long time no one of the three cared to speak, but each lay on his back, gazing up through the trembling leaves of the trees to the bright sky overhead. At last, Robin, whose thoughts were not quite so busy wool-gathering as those of the others, and who had been gazing around him now and then, broke the silence.
Apprehended in "wool-gathering," she mustered a smile which was so exclusively for him that the neighbour felt that he ought to be forgiven his peeps from the tail of his eye at it because it was so precious. They attempted little flights of talk about everything except the war.
But I am poor, quite poor; and nothing but a sense of duty impels me to give so much of my time and means to aid the unfortunate and the destitute, and for the promotion of education and the arts that beautify and adorn life." His wits were probably "wool-gathering"; for the phrases which had been so often conned for public occasions slipped off his tongue quite unawares.
It seemed to deepen the silence about him, an accent on the expectant stillness, a thread of tinkling melody spanning an abyss. Lewisham took himself in hand at this stage. What was happening? He must attend. Was he really watching as he should do? He had been wool-gathering. There were no such things as spirits, mediums were humbugs, and he was here to prove that sole remaining Gospel.
Maude laughed a light laugh. "This movement of theirs is putting you out of conceit of your old love, Val." "What movement?" he rejoined; and he would not have asked the question had his thoughts not gone wool-gathering. "You are dreaming, Val. The action." "Ah, yes, to be sure." "Have you heard yet what damages they claim?" He shook his head.
Have I the honor of once more meeting Lady Isabel Vane?" She rose from the seat, and allowed him to take her hand, answering a few words at random, for her wits seemed wool-gathering. "I beg your pardon I should have said Lady Isabel Carlyle. Time has elapsed since we parted, and in the pleasure of seeing you again so unexpectedly, I thought of you as you were then."
'Nay, John, when you talk to me of Harry's cough, and of night-watches and flooded camps, I hearken; but when your wits run wool-gathering after that poor woman, making waxen images stuck full 'You are in the right on't, James, said Henry, who had come up to them while he was speaking. 'John will never get sorceries out of his head.
By the way, Frank, are you going to motor down to that meeting of Miss Holland's to-night?" "Wool-gathering, he calls it!" said the younger man, letting his lump of sugar clatter on his saucer. "I'd say it was all cry and no wool; at least you are pulling none over my eyes. Am I going to motor down to hear the protests of the proletariat to-night? No, dear brother, I am not.
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