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It sometimes happens that the fisherman loses his head precisely at the wrong moment, so that foiled, helpless, and taken aback, he comes to fatal and irremediable grief. Thus Lady Bearwarden, too, found the nerve on which she prided herself failing when she most wanted it, and knew that the prestige and influence which formed her only safeguards were slipping from her grasp.
"If you take me home, Sam, you shall see her, and be forgiven by her, too." "Thankee, miss," said the gratified steward. "And what about your foot, Wilks?" said Hardy, somewhat taken aback by this arrangement. "Foot, sir?" said the unconscious Mr. Wilks; "wot foot?" "Why, the bad one," said Hardy, with a significant glance. "Ho, that one?" said Mr.
Grettir hewed back against him with the short-sword, and smote the shaft so that he struck it asunder; then was the giant fain to stretch aback for a sword that hung up there in the cave; but therewithal Grettir smote him afore into the breast, and smote off well-nigh all the breast bone and the belly, so that the bowels tumbled out of him and fell into the river, and were driven down along the stream; and as the priest sat by the rope, he saw certain fibres all covered with blood swept down the swirls of the stream; then he grew unsteady in his place, and thought for sure that Grettir was dead, so he ran from the holding of the rope, and gat him home.
Worth's question drew the lawyer's glance, and he stared at them apparently a good deal taken aback, while Worth added, "Seems to keep pretty close tab on your movements." The low tone might have been considered joking, but there was war in the boy's eye. It was as though Cummings answered the challenge, rather than opened with what he had intended. "My business is with you, Gilbert."
"To do all the mischief I can, of course; to support all the worst measures that come up; to jump when the boss's whip cracks!" She refused to meet him on this ground. He saw that any expectation he might have that she would urge him to pledge himself to noble endeavor and high achievements as a state legislator were doomed to disappointment. He was taken aback by the tone of her retort.
"Dear friend," she said softly, "I cannot marry you! I shall never marry any one. Will you please believe that? It will make it so much easier for me." He was a little taken aback. She had changed her methods suddenly, and he had had no time to adapt himself to them. "Don't hate me, please," she murmured. "Indeed, it would make me very happy if we could be friends."
For a minute and a half she fetched up as if awaking to the consequences of her folly; shuddered and shook against the wind; and, as her sails filled again, fetched away on the westerly tack for her life. For a full two minutes the French were taken aback. "Fools, fools!" shouted M. de la Pailletine, beside himself with joy.
Tredgold, with what Mr. Chalk thought unnecessary abruptness. "Well well, because you generally are here, I suppose," he said, somewhat taken aback. Mr. Tredgold favoured him with a scowl, and a somewhat uncomfortable silence ensued. "Stobell wanted to see you again," said Mr. Chalk, turning to the captain. "He's done nothing but talk about you ever since he was here last."
Peter was so taken aback that he merely gaped at Hendry, until suddenly he knew that his five daughters were furious with him, when he dived for his hat and staggered to the vestry with his mouth open. His boots cheeped all the way, but no one looked up.
General Belknap was visibly taken aback, and explained that he had supposed the right of appointment rested with him, that Ward was an old rebel Democrat, etc.; whereas Ward had been in fact the sutler of Fort Laramie, a United States military post, throughout the civil war.
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