I wanted very much to go, but W. thought he would be freer and have more time to think things over if I were not there.

Of that I had thought little, merely taking care that the man did not see me.

He then asked about my mother, and when he learned that she was dead he was greatly surprised and grieved; he thought a great deal of her, for she had treated him almost as one of her own children.

God does not think petty thoughts: He longs for grandeur for us all.

But if you will stop to think one moment of the difficulties of my position, you will see that it was not as easy as at first it appears.

He had thought the matter well over, and had a final talk with Freycinet, who would have liked to keep both W. and Leon Say, but it wasn't easy to manage the new element that Freycinet brought with him.

" "It never was, I'm sure; and as for the grave, well, Alec, in country parts, to this day, you'd be thought a bold man if you filled up a grave that your neighbor had dug for himself, and such a neighbor as Captain Duggle!

He had had but little schooling, and his master was one of those persons who thought the best way to get learning implanted in a boy's mind was by forcing it into him at the point of the ruler.

Do you see?' 'What a lot you seem to think of one little visit, Vincy!

After I had listened to them a little while, thinking the time and the words a little appropriate to their condition, I beckoned to one of the young men, who came "sidling" slowly up to me.

Hadn't thought o' that," said Skim.

" "Tush, man," he cried, "when did a Virginian think the worse of a man for his clothes?

I can assure you that the person who did it will never trouble us again," and as Dave did not like to think evil of any one, he consented, and continued to think of Marian Stevens, when he thought of her at all, as a jolly girl.

Would you not go if you thought it your duty?"

He had been trying to think out a plan of action, and finding nothing better than to thrust a gun stupidly under Landis' nose and make him mark time, Donnegan went into Lebrun's place.

I am sure he never thought little Squinty, with his comical eye, did it.

'And you don't think I'd be good to the children?' 'Good?

Our little school-marm, Alethea-Belle Buchanan, said (without any reason): "I reckon Mr. Spooner must have thought the world of his little one.

Why, Master Sheriff, think you me a fool?

"Why did you stay, dear, for nine long years?" He thought a minute.

Connie had seen the lady walk up-stairs, and had thought no harm.

"I thought a heap of my young mistress," he added, in evident apology for this display of what such men call weakness.

Men like Tom Howel, who have thought in one direction all their lives, are not easily brought to change their notions, especially when the admiration which proceeds from distance, distance 'that lends enchantment to the view,' is at the bottom of their faith.

Beth frowned at the news and then sat down to carefully think out the problem.

With such speeches, smoothly made, She found methods to persuade Margaret (who, being sore From the doubts she'd felt before, Was prepared for mistrust) To believe her reasons just; Quite destroy'd that comfort glad, Which in Mary late she had; Made her, in experience' spite, Think her friend a hypocrite, And resolve, with cruel scoff, To renounce and cast her off.