When I get looking over prints, the dinner-bell might ring a dozen times without my hearing it.

A letter from an agent telling of some wonderful find in Mesopotamia would make me forget whether my wife's hair were brown or black.

I don't need diversion, Roberts." "Yet you enjoy a couple of hours in the country, a whiff of fresh air----" "And a chat with a friend.

Yes, I do; but if the museum were open----" Mr.Roberts smiled.
"I see that you are incorrigible." Then, with a gesture toward the house: "Come and see my new veranda.

Its outlook will surprise you." As you have already surmised, he was the owner of this place; and the man for whose better understanding Sweetwater had again taken up the plane and the hammer.
XVII THE CUCKOO-CLOCK As they made their way through scattered timber and the litter of fresh carpentry-work, the man who was busy there and who certainly had outstayed his time took up his kit and disappeared around the corner of the house.