I was in a puzzled
con- dition, anyway, and wanted to think.
A hundred diseases, all the fevers and
con- tagions of human life, consumption, cancers, tumours and such morbidities, never enter the scheme of their life.
For some time, now, the boys had been dully
con- scious of a peculiar sound in the distance, just as one sometimes is of the ticking of a clock which he takes no distinct note of.