Presently, "Isn't it frightfully strange," he mused aloud.

When I have mused awhile On all my luck, so vile, I almost wish they'd hit me with a club!

She sat with downcast eyes a moment, musing deeply.

" Mr. Clarkson, staring at the fire, mused darkly.

"It was about ninth down the list yesterday afternoon," he mused, softly.

"I might have said something," she mused, sadly.

For, a time, I mused, absently.

For some time he sat musing bitterly on his sad fate, while his dog came and laid his head sympathizingly on his arm.

VII Long after Miss Stapylton had left him, the colonel sat alone in his study, idle now, and musing vaguely.

" Gavin went off and Cartwright mused by the fire.

" "We-e-ll," mused young Sam, doubtfully, "you're a nigger.

She had recovered from the shock given by the sudden announcement of his origin, and was now musing intently, and with cooler discrimination, on the commencement of their acquaintance, its progress and all its little incidents, down to the two grave events which had so gradually and firmly cemented the sentiments of esteem and admiration in the stronger and indelible tie of affection.

She sat and mused very sweetly about all that had been told her, and wondered whether she too might go sometimes, and with a kiss and a whisper clear up something that was dark in the mind of some one who loved her.

And some melancholy Bard Might, idly musing, thus discourse to it: "Daughter of Summer, who dost linger here.

He was absorbed in one of those dreamy reveries in which men saunter, speak, and muse unconsciously, when, in following the windings of a footpath which led through a thicket, he suddenly found himself in the presence of a young lady, who was walking slowly across the wood with a book in her hand.

" "That 's strange," mused Mr. Clayton, somewhat anxiously.

He is musing earnestly; And the flutterings of the bird And its pleading, feeble chirp Fall upon his ear unheard.

he mused enigmatically.

315 Now o'er the soothed accordant heart we feel A sympathetic twilight slowly steal, And ever, as we fondly muse, we find The soft gloom deepening on the tranquil mind.

The shy look and the blush with which she had suggested the introduction were ominous indications, upon which I mused gloomily as we ascended the stairs and passed through the wide doorway.

Come, then, to our aid, oh ye heavenly Muses!

Sleep lay about the roses, the bushes mused inwardly, the honeysuckle exhaled enchantment and was itself enchanted.

" "It would give me a chance to wear my lilac muslin," mused Sally quite irrelevantly, but Josephine caught her meaning.

'I hardly know whether I like it,' she mused languidly; 'beautiful as it is, it is only a reproduction of bygone splendour, and it is painfully excruciating now.

"Sure wish we had that realtime transmission equipment on board," mused Zip out loud, thinking about how his encounter with the pirates had begun with the experiment in the control tower in Eagle City.