The stranger, finding himself generally observed, rose slowly to his feet, picked his way with a certain exaggerated deliberation of movement over the duffel lying in the bottom of the canoe, until he reached the bow, where he paused, one foot lifted to the gunwale just above the emblem of the painted star.

Then he paused and went on at greater length in regard to the stranger, speaking evenly but with emphasis.

Then he paused and waited collectedly for the other to speak.

As the older man paused, he shrugged his shoulders.

" "You were alone?" Ned Trent paused for a barely appreciable instant.

He paused longest at the full length portrait of Sir George Simpson, the Company's great traveller, with his mild blue eyes, his kindly face, denying the potency of his official frown, his snowy hair and whiskers.

The paddles dipped once, twice, thrice, and paused.

Time seems to linger, or move slowly on; as if the wheels of nature stood still, and paused at the mournful sight of departed grandeur and buried magnificenceBABYLON in ruins!

But what can one do?" She paused.

" He paused.

" He paused and then became eloquent.

If you follow me?" He paused, and his eyes behind the glasses were mildly interrogative.

Wellyou see the odds?" He paused.

In the gloom of the upper landing she paused to murmur, "hear this: Two things I have achieved this week worth all to-day's bad luck ten times overyou don't believe me?" "No, you pretty creature; you would have told me sooner, if only for vanity.

He named over to himself those friends on whom he might call, and then his mind paused as Betty Medill's name hazily and sorrowfully occurred to him.

The horse paused by the bank and began rocking slightly.

To the very top he made his way and paused dazed.

"My. Barnaby," she finally broke the silence, and paused.

The dripping, bedraggled figure of a man in a sleeping-suit mounted the rope ladder that hung over the side, and paused, grasping the rail.

He paused and looked the diners over.

" Stewart had paused.

" Deacon abruptly paused after so long a speech.

Deacon paused as though deliberating.

He paused as Junior Doane placed an admonishing hand upon his arm.

He paused over but one object"The Essays of Elia," which had somehow fallen behind a trunk.