Then I saw the father's head slightly turn ; ;

`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.

Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.

Then I spent the next two days at the baseball park and at Jack Doyle's pool parlors.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

Then I asked, `` What does that teach you ''??

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.

Then we pull out under our mortar and artillery cover, but nobody pulls out until I say so.

Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here??

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.

Then I have seen the pride of country well in the eyes of these young people.

Then I cover the sowing with a board.

Then I plan my attack: the parts I will finish first, the range of values, the accenting of minor details -- all in all, mechanics of producing the finished job with a maximum of crispness.

Then I dry the sheet under mild pressure so that it will lie flat as a board.

Then, I remembered that the girls had had a banana for dessert every day for the last week.

Then I realized that she had been deliberately showing me, this time, what Granny was like ; ;

Then I replied, coldly, `` If you despise me, why don't you say so, directly ''??

Then later I had quit my safe, secure five-a-week spot on a network soap opera to take a part in this play.

Then I shut off the device again.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

Then it would be a choice between starvation and suicide.

Then he would run to the toilet behind the house.

Then Miriam varied the senseless psychological warfare by suddenly withdrawing a suit for separate maintenance that had been pending, and asking for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, with the understanding that Wright would not contest it.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note: `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''.

Then, getting back into bed, he thought unashamedly of Mrs. Flannagan, planning where they would next meet and what they would do.

Then the Chinese hostler, who rode with Vernon on the box, would break open a hamper and produce filets of smoked bass or sturgeon, sandwiches, pickled eggs, and a rum sangaree to be heated over a spirit lamp.

Then, at last, his day would fall into an ordered pattern and he would be free to read, or garden or just wander through the woods in the late afternoon, accompanied by his dogs.

Then at least he would have a place to hang his tools and something to work on.

Then, she was back on her feet, winking and smiling that enormous smile ( she had lots of wonderful big teeth that you never would have suspected she had when she was not smiling ).

Then the dynamic program would require about a minute whereas the direct search would take more than three millennia!!

Then the boycott would not be secondary, but a primary one.

Then he would yawn and stretch and shout, `` All out.

Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o'clock.

Then he could tell them to go home, while the administration continued to wage the battle with the $28 million in extra revenues the sales tax measure would bring in over an eight months period.

Then I calculated that a million peas would just about fill a household refrigerator ; ;

Then he would walk off for a few days alone in the direction of Europe.

Then again they would stand in circles making other preparations.

Then, after slowing the vessel considerably, the drive would adjust to a one-gee deceleration.

Then the whole process would be repeated to eliminate another variable.

Then he would take refuge in the reading of the Bible and the Fathers of the Church.