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I was so completely taken aback that I found no words to answer him, and it was Croisette who said smartly, "Then how about his enthusiasm for the true faith, M. le Vidame?" "The true faith," he answered "for my servants is my faith." Then a thought seemed to strike him.
At the last Sir Tristram waxed light and big, and doubled his strokes, and drove Sir Galahad aback on the one side and on the other, so that he was like to have been slain. With that came the King with the Hundred Knights, and all that fellowship went fiercely upon Sir Tristram. When Sir Tristram saw them coming upon him, then he wist well he might not endure.
If you've got anything to say, why spill it." Brockton rose impatiently. His voice rising in anger, he said: "We're not talking business now, but women. How much money do you earn?" For a moment Madison was taken aback by the very impudence of the question. He glared at his questioner, and half rose from his seat with a threatening gesture.
And then they were rather taken aback by Henry's obvious suggestion that there was no telling what the fashion in dress would be in a. d. 1925, "even if," he added, "the scientists leave us any A. D. by that time," though Frank remarked here that a. d. would answer just as well as Anno Darwinis, if worst came to worst.
Just then in walked Halvor, and then the lassies were all so taken aback, they forgot their sarks in the ingle, where they were sitting darning their clothes, and ran out in their smocks. Well, when they were got back again, they were so shamefaced they scarce dared look at Halvor, towards whom they had always been proud and haughty.
Evidently they also had given up the wretched festival, and been completely taken aback at my sudden departure, had almost immediately left for Montreux, in the hope of hearing news of me.
Freund, who has lately returned from Paris, has ordered one, with which he expects to win the admiration of all his countrymen and Igali and myself are lionized to our hearts' content; but this evening we are quite startled and taken aback by the reappearance of the assistant editor, excitedly announcing the arrival of a tricycle in town.
And as Gerald, taken oddly aback by the unseen man's very natural mistake, did not answer for a moment or two: "Nothing wrong with Nancy, I hope?" The anxious question sounded very, very clear. "There is something very wrong with Mrs. Dampier can you hear me clearly?" "Yes, yes What is wrong with her?" "Mrs. Dampier is in great trouble. Mr. Dampier has disappeared."
Conroy, too, and he told us he had a dreadful cold and couldn't sing." "O, Mr. D'Arcy," said Aunt Kate, "now that was a great fib to tell." "Can't you see that I'm as hoarse as a crow?" said Mr. D'Arcy roughly. He went into the pantry hastily and put on his overcoat. The others, taken aback by his rude speech, could find nothing to say.
It was then that Jim Airth said, suddenly: "By the way I wish you would tell me more about Lady Ingleby. What kind of a woman is she? Easy to talk to?" For a moment Myra was taken aback. "Why, Jim I hardly know. Easy? Yes, I think you will find her easy to talk to." "Does she speak of her husband's death, or is it a tabooed subject?"
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