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The one had been entirely ignorant of the object of his mission; the other had shown a vain presumption in thinking he could drive him from his fixed purpose by a flood of words. He had accordingly answered him on the spot without consulting his council, at which poor Richardot had been much amazed. And now another envoy appeared upon the scene, an ambassador coming directly from the Emperor.
Our Provincial States have been notified in the matter, so that we can no longer digest the Spanish impudence, and are amazed that his Majesty can listen any more to the Spanish ministers.
Don Quixote was amazed when he heard the Knight of the Grove, and was a thousand times on the point of telling him he lied, and had the lie direct already on the tip of his tongue; but he restrained himself as well as he could, in order to force him to confess the lie with his own lips; so he said to him quietly, "As to what you say, sir knight, about having vanquished most of the knights of Spain, or even of the whole world, I say nothing; but that you have vanquished Don Quixote of La Mancha I consider doubtful; it may have been some other that resembled him, although there are few like him."
"But," said Katy, amazed, "Conic Section isn't exactly country, you know. It is just out of the city, only six miles from here. And Mrs. Worrett's house is close to the road, papa said. Do you think you'd like it, dear? It can't be very much cooler than this." "Oh, yes! it can," rejoined Elsie, in a tone which was a little fretful. "It's always cooler on a farm.
Christopher made some effort to talk on indifferent subjects, but she answered with strange brevity or not at all, once with such impatience that he glanced quickly at her hands and saw they were hidden by the long sleeves of his big coat she wore. Presently she said abruptly: "We ought not to have stayed so long. Why did you go to sleep?" "I didn't," he retorted, amazed at the accusation.
"It cannot be Clinton, but, only my dream of him!" cried Mrs. Fabens, clasping her hands, and looking amazed. "Believe me, madam, it is your own dear son," said Father Lovelight. "Father!" cried the stranger. "Clinton!" cried Fabens, rushing to embrace him. "My child! my dear, dear child!" cried Mrs. Fabens, falling in his arms.
The effect produced on the mind of the chief by the prophecy amazed me, as he looked, for a native, quite a superior and intelligent person. None of them, however, as I found, escaped the influence of their baneful superstitions. Approaching me, he closely examined myself, my dress, and the spectacles which the old priest now held in his hands.
I once passed through a village and was not a little amazed to see two or three bathtubs on the public road, each occupied by one or more persons; nor were the occupants children alone, but men and women also.
The first thought of an unsophisticated stranger on entering that room could only be the amazed inquiry why a professor of the art of colour, which beyond all other arts requires pure daylight for its exercise, should fix himself on the single square league in habitable Europe to which light is denied at noonday for weeks in succession.
That drive was half a mile long, and she was praising its gravelled surface when Rickie called in a voice of alarm, "I say, when did our train arrive?" "Four-six." "I said so." "It arrived at four-six on the time-table," said Mr. Wonham. "I want to know when it got to the station?" "I tell you again it was punctual. I tell you I looked at my watch. I can do no more." Agnes was amazed.
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