And there she stood gazing, in a sort of stupefied fascination, till we turned a corner of the wood and were lost to her view.

That she should be startled at me instead of at the other man, was too many for me; I couldn't make head or tail of it.

And that she should seem to consider me a spectacle, and totally overlook her own merits in that respect, was another puzzling thing, and a display of magnanimity, too, that was surprising in one so young.
There was food for thought here.

I moved along as one in a dream.
As we approached the town, signs of life began to appear.

At intervals we passed a wretched cabin, with a thatched roof, and about it small fields and garden patches in an indifferent state of cultivation.