Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.

Then she saw Ramey and her face was misshapen with bewilderment.

Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.

Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

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 he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.

Then, since the auction was being held nearby, he had walked to it.

Then the nigger boy turned back and he was alone.

Then Katie stumbled, and again he was falling, falling!!

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

Then why was he assuming the role -- the gesture and the suffering??

Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.

`` Then what was it ''??

Then it was gone.

Then she fell asleep again as soddenly as a person with fever, and when she awoke it was dark outside and the clarity was back in her eyes.

Then he stood back to look at Mr. Jack, who was pulling on his pigskin gloves.

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 he hunkered down on the heels of his handmade boots, peered into the orderly chaos of axle, shock absorber, and spring.

Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.

Then maybe next time he won't be so quick on the trigger ''.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

Then, on July 2, there occurred another incident which set tongues to wagging at a furious clip.

Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!

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 launches into an attack on the Tory ministers, whom he calls the `` New Converts '' ; ;

Then he called on the governor to explain why.

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 followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

Then let the whole lot be hanged in a public mass execution on July 4, 1963.

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 he slipped and went down on his hands and knees in the melting snow.

Then the figure moved on.

Then came their bathroom, and then a bedroom that, judging by the photographs on the walls, must belong to Mme Cestre.

Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting.

Then she went back to the wicker chair and resolutely adjusted her eyes to the glare on the water.

Then he spread out the last list on the counter.