if everybody had got well of the cholera and all the trouble was over .
She wonderedwonderalso who would take care of her now her Ayah was dead .
She wonderedwonderif five o'clock would find a droop to the set of those young shoulders ; if the springy young legs in their absurdly scant modish trousers would have lost some of their elasticity ; if the buoyant step in the flat-heeled shoes would not drag a little .
Was it so irreconcilable , Warwick wonderedwonder, as still to peal out the curfew bell , which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes , slave or free , that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour , under penalty of imprisonment or whipping ?
I wonderedwonderat this for , as my uncle had saidsaythe night before , he had taught me a great deal .
While the objects around me -- while the carvings of the ceilings , the sombre tapestries of the walls , the ebon blackness of the floors , and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattledrattleas I strodestride, were but matters to which , or to such as which , I had been accustomed from my infancy -- while I hesitatedhesitatenot to acknowledge how familiar was all this -- I still wonderedwonderto find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirringstirup .
He wonderedwonderfrom which window Hamilton Rowan had thrownthrowhis hat on the ha-ha and had there been flowerbeds at that time under the windows .
This put my mother into a great passionpassion; she toldtellme she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject ; that he knew too well what was my interest to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt ; and that she wonderedwonderhow I could think of any such thing after the discoursediscourseI had had with my father , and such kind and tender expressionsexpressionas she knew my father had used to me ; and that , in short , if I would ruin myself , there was no help for me ; but I might depend I should never have their consent to it ; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction ; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not .
Winterbourne wonderedwonderif he himself had been like this in his infancy , for he had been broughtbringto Europe at about this age .
He wonderedwonderwhether he had gone too far , but he decideddecidethat he must advance farther , rather than retreat .
He wonderedwonderhow another man would have handled this situation .