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He saw his own name: he saw something more, words that made his heart stand still, and his blood seem like ice in his veins. As he thus stood aghast, a hand was laid on the letter, and a voice, in an angry growl, muttered, "How dare you come into my room, and pe reading my letters? Er-r-r!"
He stopped aghast, and cast a half-frightened look at Phoebe, who stood there so quiet, subdued out of her usual force, pale and disapproving his own grandchild, a pastor's daughter! and he had forgotten himself thus before her. He blushed hotly, though he was not used to blushing, and stopped all at once.
Flick mentioned it to Sir William Patterson, the great barrister, who was at that time Solicitor-General and leading counsel on behalf of Lord Lovel, Sir William Patterson stood aghast and was dismayed. Sir William intended to make mince-meat of the Countess. It was said of him that he intended to cross-examine the Countess off her legs, right out of her claim, and almost into her grave.
She came downstairs, and met him at the door. "Such a disaster," she said, and handed him a telegram. Kew stood aghast, as she meant him to. No disaster is ever so great as it is before you know what it is. But Kew ought to have known Anonyma's disasters by experience. "Russ's wife has appeared." "Why should she be introduced as a disaster?" asked Kew, with a sigh of relief.
We've got some capital men on the Town Council Harding, Belfast, Rogers, Snaith you won't remember them. There's some talk of pulling down the Cove and building new lodging-houses there. We're crowded out in the summer, and there are more people every year." "Pull down the Cove?" said Harry, aghast; "but you can't.
He stood aghast as he saw the warm firelight, and then approaching the table mechanically put down a couple of bottles. "'I beg your pardon, said I, reassured by his presence, 'but I have accidentally overturned the screen. Allow me to replace it. "'No, said the old man, gently, 'let it be. "'We have had enough of the dark. I'll give you a light. "He struck a match and slowly lit the candles.
But he was a man from whom the terror of the unknown very soon passed away when he had no choice but to face it. In Natal he would have stood aghast at a suggestion that he should cut away his moorings and be wafted by the winds of war for ten days or more across a strange ocean. If hitherto he had been nec celer nec audax now he became at least audax.
"Oh, Prince, when I consider steadfastly the depth and the intensity of that devotion which, for so many years, has tended me, and has endured the society of that person whom I peculiarly know to be the most tedious and irritating of companions, I stand aghast, before a miracle. And I cry, Oh, certainly a goddess! and I can think of no queen who is fairly mentionable in the same breath.
Some morning this town will flock aghast to view a gory corpse; on its brow will be seen the awful sign, and men will tremble and whisper, "He has been here it is the Mysterious Avenger's mark!" You will come here, but I shall have vanished; you will see me no more.
Full of this interesting idea, the submarine boy strolled slowly along to the little jail, forming his plans as he went. Arrived at the jail, Captain Jack found the keeper, as yet, in ignorance of the dastardly attempt that had been made on the submarine boat the night before. He listened, aghast, as Benson told him the whole story.
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