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"Yes, child," she answered absently. "Has it occurred to you that what you have said about this boy touches me very closely?" Mrs. Ferrall's wits returned nimbly from woolgathering, and she shot a startled, inquiring glance at the girl beside her. "You you mean the matter of heredity, Sylvia?" "Yes.
His questioner perceiving that he was not likely to get a great deal of change out of such a wily old customer, fell to woolgathering on the enormous dimensions of the water about the globe, suffice it to say that, as a casual glance at the map revealed, it covered fully three fourths of it and he fully realised accordingly what it meant to rule the waves.
Mother used to say, "Sam, your head is always a woolgathering." "I am glad of it," says I, "marm." "Why, Sam," she'd say, "why, what on earth do you mean?" "Because, marm," I'd reply, "a head that's alway a gathering will get well stored at last." Do get along."
Woolgathering, ain't ye?" Maria was her only confidante and her only comfort. The Boston girl laughed when she listened to her fears, and braced her up with fairy stories of the winnings of Miss Henders and Slathers and the money they were making; but the relief was only temporary. Soon the strain began to show itself in her face. "You ain't sick, Abbie, be you?" asked the mother. "No?
"Say you know his reverence is as innocent as the babe as isn't born," said the woman. "No; I won't say anything of the kind," said Dan. "Speak out the truth," said Crawley. "They do say, among 'em," said Dan, "that you picked it up, and then got woolgathering in your head till you didn't rightly know where it come from." Then he paused. "And after a bit you guv' it me to get the money.
But I had to keep a sharp eye on Butler. His singular merits were discovered by others who had no more than heard of him, but found he was exactly what they wanted. This Lent I tried Coleridge again. But surely one's mind must be curiously at random to go to such woolgathering.
"By no means, but it brought a world of notions into my head, such as I could not but set down. Now, Ethel, do oblige me, do write another, as we used in old times." "I had better not," said Ethel, standing thoughtful. "If I throw myself into it, I shall hate everything else, and my wits will be woolgathering. I have neither time nor poetry enough." "You used to write English verse."
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