Speaking in popular and unphilosophical terms, we may say that the content of a thought is supposed to be something in your head when you
think the thought, while the object is usually something in the outer world.
As soon as I begin to plan, and
think, and try, all my planning, thinking, and trying go in old directions, and I begin to feel careful again about the expenses of the day, and about my dear father, and about my work, and then I remember with a start that there are no such cares left, and that in itself is so new and improbable that it sets me wandering again.
I am sure I don't know what they will
think of me when I get back.
"I wanted to ask you, Mary-- don't you
think that Mr.
My concern for you was in the beginning a very fragile and even a selfish thing, yet not altogether selfish, for I
think that what first stirred it was the joyous sway of the little nursery governess as she walked down Pall Mall to meet her lover.
"Oh, Philip!" said Maggie, "how can you
think I have such feelings?
I'm so glad you
think there is, Miss Barry." Miss Barry's house was furnished with "great magnificence," as Anne told Marilla afterward.
One would
think then that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last.
All this was not an uplifting thing to recall, but as the train whirled him through mountain passes and golden plains the man who was "coming alive" began to
think in a new way and he thought long and steadily and deeply.
"I don't
think one can do much better than a cross.
'I
think I'll go down the other way,' she said after a pause:
"Auntie, I wish I hadn't done it -- but I didn't
think."
