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

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, 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 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, 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.

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

Then, after McNair's throwing hand was stepped on against Cleveland on Dec. 17, Boller led the Ravens to victory with a 13-of-21, 238-yard and two-touchdown performance ( 112. 3 passer rating ), one touchdown being the game highlight, when he connected with explosive rookie receiver Demetrius Williams for the 77 yard score.

`` Then we're lucky we got here.

Then at last the darkness began to dissolve.

Then he thought of a time when Clayton's horse had fallen lame in the Gap.

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 she turned back to Wilson and smiled, and he wasn't quite sure what she meant by it.

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

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.

Then, as he doubled, gasping, vomiting the breakfast he had so lately eaten, Lord straightened him with an uppercut.

Then, as Macklin obeyed: `` Now let's go out back ''.

Then it hit me.

Then he noticed the clouds racing upon them -- heavy, ominous, leaden clouds that formed even as they sliced over the crests of the surrounding hills.

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

Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.

Then he noticed that the dry wood of the wheels had swollen.

Then the Bonaventure seemed to disintegrate with a roar of live steam, geysers of sparks and flames, and a dense cloud of black-and-orange smoke.

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

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