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It was always distasteful to him to have to give up a project, or to disarrange an intended order of things, such was his nature; but to-day it was absolute pain to yield his own purpose. 'Why, man alive? said Coulson, in amaze at his reluctance. 'I didn't say I mightn't go, said Philip, weighing consequences, until called off to attend to customers.
'I know him not much, said Fausta, 'and of his faith, nothing. He has great power over the Princess Julia, and it would not much amaze me if, by and by, she declared herself a Christian. It is incredible how that superstition spreads. But here is our carriage. Come, let us forth. So, breaking off our talk, we betook ourselves to the carriage.
"Mere mischief-making, as before," said Master Gottfried, while his nephews started with amaze. "His father's death was proved by an eye-witness, whom you still have in your train, have you not, Herr Freiherr?"
Stillwell did not hear the sheriff; he was gazing at Stewart in a kind of imploring amaze. "Gene, you ain't goin' to stand fer them handcuffs?" he pleaded. "Yes," replied the cowboy. "Bill, old friend, I'm an outsider here. There's no call for Miss Hammond and and her brother and Florence to be worried further about me. Their happy day has already been spoiled on my account.
That was ever the unspoken compact between her and the huntsmen. It may be but an old trick come back to me with these memories, but again I clasp my hands to my brows in amaze at the thought that all this was for me could I retain her love. For I won it, wonder of the gods, but I won it.
They eyed him in amaze, and avoided meeting one another's eyes. Truly, he was a strange-looking Weary. His head was bare and disheveled, his eyes bloodshot and glaring, his cheeks flushed hotly. His neck-kerchief covered his chest like a bib and he wore no coat; one shirtsleeve was rent from shoulder to cuff, telling eloquently that violent hands had sought to lay hold on him.
He had spent the best part of each day seated behind a screen in Cale's inner shop, listening in a species of fascination and amaze to the talk of the young dandies who daily resorted thither.
What is dishonour here may be glory elsewhere; and this hand, outstretched towards a mightier sceptre than Greek ever wielded yet, may dispense, not shame and sorrow, but glory and golden affluence to those I love." "You amaze me, Pausanias. Now I fear you. What mean these mysterious boasts?
And the fluttering, chirping gentlemen are rubbing their hands in amaze and wondering why they did not do it long ago, it was so very, very simple. But the centuries to come, of which the fluttering, chirping gentlemen are prone to talk largely, will have something to say in the matter.
For a moment an awful silence fell upon the three, and they could hear the myriad sounds of the evening camp round about. Then Maren, her eyes wide in amaze, said stupidly: "Eh, Madame?" And the Irishwoman cried: "Frances! For shame!" But the other was very much composed. "I am right, all the same, what woman of modesty would follow a man to the wilderness, confessing brazenly her love?
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