Then he was on his way at a gallop.

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 Little Billy began shouting orders to round up the ponies and fill the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with the meal.

Then Barton touched Carl Dill's arm and moved off, up the river bank.

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 the boy straight-armed himself up, twisting at the last moment so he landed sitting.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

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 the various officers of the college might take up the case.

Then they disappeared and Scotty got up and went into his own room and got into bed.

Then he looked at his finger, at the wrinkled, heavy knuckle and the thick nail he used like a knife to pry up, slit, and open.

Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.

Then, after emasculation, he was eased up for a couple of weeks.

Then you'll want terry cloth towels for mopping up.

Then, too, European drivers have reputations for being somewhat crazy on the road and some Americans are not particularly keen on getting mixed up with them.

Then they had always been romping around him on these walks, yelping with delight, dashing off into the bushes on fruitless hunting expeditions, returning to jump up on him triumphantly with muddy paws.

Then, they had to get up and be General Burnside.

Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.

Then, by squeezing her foot three times, he came up -- presto -- with a different diagnosis with each squeeze.

Then Mel Chandler started up the hill.

Then off again, rushing to keep up.

Then they picked up the smaller black specks on the plain in front of him.

Then hang up fast and come walking on down to the Perrin address.

Then on Monday morning -- or it might have to be Tuesday -- get up and leave just the usual time, and last thing, put the money in an envelope under the old woman's purse there in the drawer.