Abe collected himself so far as to bow in the direction she had taken; then with lamblike eyes of inquiry met the exasperated glances cast upon him.

Ere he could collect himself, the dead Pope had seated himself beside the Pope with one foot in the grave, and, fondling a ferret-skin, proceeded to enter into conversation.

[Illustration] When Graham was able to collect himself, he discovered that the two beasts walked on all fours and were of the feline persuasion.

He saw the self-contained Russian give a little gasp, and mutter an exclamation before he collected himself sufficiently to bow and conceal his face.

West gave a start, but collected himself in an instant and covered the action with another shrug.

When finally he managed to collect himself and his senses and sit up uncertainly in the road, the car was far away.

The car shot away and rounded into the cross street before the bobby could collect himself enough to look at its license plate.

He stopped, seemed to collect himself, moved slowly forward.

Diplomatist though he was, it was several seconds before he could collect himself and rise to the situation.

Old Captain Renfrew collected himself first.

The injury, happily, was not so great but that he soon collected himself, and cheered up his alarmed attendants.

He fell into the long grass on the side of the road, and had barely collected himself when a dark form sprang upon the pony.

With one supreme effort he collected himself into a motionless mass of matter, bracing his front legs wide apart; that is to say, he stopped short.

Yet the moralist felt bound to utter some condemnation of such a performance, and at last, amidst the smothered amusement of the company, collected himself to give a heavy stroke: "there is in it," he said, "such a labefactation of all principles as may he dangerous to morality.

"Sit down, will you," he said; and before uncle Wellington could collect himself, he was seated between the two white women.

He seemed to collect himself as for an effort of magnitude.

He now began to collect himself; they had passed the first immediate danger, in which he had been obliged to act mechanically without time to think; he raised his head as high as he could to look about him and then swam with all his might to a low bushy point which ran out conveniently into the stream.

His first thought, when he was in any degree recovered from his despair, and able to collect himself, was, that Ottilie should not be carried out of the castle; she should be kept there, and attended upon as if she were alive: for she was not dead; it was impossible that she should be dead.

Then he seemed to collect himself.

Calvert was untouched, but before he could collect himself or move to the assistance of St. Aulaire, he suddenly heard the sound of coach-wheels passing close to the allée, and, at the same instant, to his astonishment, he felt a sharp pain tear its way from his left shoulder to the wrist.

He stopped for a moment in the hall under the pretence of examining the old familiar scene, but it was merely to collect himself, for his sight was clouded; spoke to the old servant, to reassure himself by the sound of his own voice, but the husky words seemed to stick in his throat; ascended the staircase with tottering steps, and leant against the banister as he heard his name announced.

Then Matthew retired, and the Squire of Buston felt that five minutes might be allowed to collect himself, and the mutton-chop bone need not be removed.

" He passed into the back room, more than willing to get out of sight till he might better collect himself.

At this reflection the lawyer's eyes become altogether unmanageable)"it is just that," repeats Guglielmi, making a desperate effort to collect himself.

Now for the pippins for it, yellow they are, holding summer yet; and a few drops of that brandy in the window, every drop shining and warm: that'll put a soul into it, andHe stopped before the confectioner's: just a moment, to collect himself; for this was the crowning point, this.