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As he got out at his own door he said something half aloud; being a solitary bachelor man he had got into a trick of talking to himself. "I did hear that boy of the O'Garas' was sweet on her," he said. "My word, what a pretty kettle of fish!" "I beg your pardon, doctor?" said Patsy. "Oh nothing, nothing. I was wool-gathering. Come in and wait; I'll have the medicine ready in less than no time."
I tried to concentrate my attention on the work of identifying landmarks. It was useless. One might as well attempt to study Latin grammar at his first visit to the Grand Cañon. My thoughts went wool-gathering. Looking up suddenly, I found that I was alone. To the new pilot the sudden appearance or disappearance of other avions is a weird thing. He turns his head for a moment.
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.
"High-toned yet spiritual, one might term it. I like the way the eyes seem to look out of the paper or is it canvas it's done on?" "Oh er I beg your pardon," said Lucas, waking suddenly from his reverie; "I I'll let you have that thrown in." "Wits a wool-gathering, Vernon?" smiled his patron indulgently. "But I dare say you've some excuse.
Think of the extraordinary number of persons you know who never do more than half-listen, half-understand, half-attend, and who only read with their eyes, not with their brains. The other half of their brain is off wool-gathering somewhere, so naturally they forget everything they read, and the little they do remember with half their brain is usually incorrect.
And even if you'd marry Seth Bede, as is a poor wool-gathering Methodist and's never like to have a penny beforehand, I know your uncle 'ud help you with a pig, and very like a cow, for he's allays been good-natur'd to my kin, for all they're poor, and made 'em welcome to the house; and 'ud do for you, I'll be bound, as much as ever he'd do for Hetty, though she's his own niece.
He had a heavy, sleepy, bantering expression, and he was always wool-gathering. And when they reached his sister's pallid face, bending in silence over her work, he would be filled with an immense pity for her and his own indolence: and he would work furiously to make up for lost time. He spent his holidays in reading. They would read together each with a separate book.
Those papers contain your whole history do you understand?" She was looking so white, and staring so hard and so hopelessly, that there was need of the question. She took the casket and gazed at it with a perplexed air. "My child, have your thoughts gone wool-gathering? Do you not comprehend what I have said to you! Your whole history is hid in that box?"
If I hadn't come mewing like a tom-cat at your heels yesterday, Rasta would have had you long before you got to your hotel. You two have given me a pretty anxious time, and it took some doing to get you safe here. However, that is all over now. Make yourselves at home, my children. 'Over! I cried incredulously, for my wits were still wool-gathering. 'What place is this?
I couldn't have persuaded them to make a search if I had prayed them on my bended knees. Their one idea was to help the fellow in what the best criminal circles call a getaway; and when I think how I must have been wool-gathering, not to guess " "Well, even so," Miss Falconer was still smiling "weren't you very nice on the steamer? About the extra, I mean.
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