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Ben was somewhat amazed at the size of the stream when it emerged below the rapids. It was, at its present high stage, fully one hundred and fifty yards across, such a stream as would bear the traffic of commerce in any inhabited region. They turned down the moose trail that followed its bank. But it was not to be that this journey should hold only delight for Ben.
For an instant the man's heart is thrilled with profoundest pain and pity for the hard lesson that she, like all others, must learn. He feels so helpless to answer that trust, that supreme innocence. Everybody stirs, rises. Violet looks amazed, but he draws her hand through his arm.
But if you have ever been amazed by a resemblance " "Anything but looking like other people!" cried the girl with a repellent gesture. "Ah, Fraulein, yet " "Let that pass, let that pass," interrupted Henrica in so irritated a tone that the musician looked at her in surprise. "One sheep looks just like another, and among a hundred peasants twenty have the same face.
"I don't know whether he is evil, I don't know what he is." "I know he is not evil." The priest looked at her, wondering. "You know how?" "My instinct," she said, coming a step nearer, and putting her hand, too, on the gate near his. "Why should we desert him?" "Desert him, Madame!" Father Roubier's voice sounded amazed. "Yes. You say he needs prayers. I know it.
Slone was amazed to find how the horse thieves had calculated; yet, on second thought, the situation, once the Creeches had been recognized, appeared simple enough. "What was your game?" he demanded. "I was follerin' Creech jest to find out where he'd hole up with the girl." "What's Cordts's game AFTER he heads Joel Creech?" "Then he's goin' fer the girl."
"My son Pliny tells me," said Mr. Tarbox, "that you have not inherited your mother's property." Frank bowed. "And that it has gone to your stepfather." "It seems so." "I am amazed." "So was I, sir." "Your mother has practically disinherited you?" "It was not my mother, sir," said Frank, hastily. "I can't explain it, but I'm sure she would not will away everything from me."
Tom was a few yards behind him, prepared to run back and call the men out. "Special train," said Andrews. "Running through to Corinth." "Through to Corinth?" demanded the man incredulously. "All right!" yelled Knight. Andrews and Tom turned and ran back to the engine without waiting to answer questions. The General with Knight at the throttle now, went roaring past the amazed agent.
Meanwhile Jan and Marie had stood still, too astonished to do more than stare from one amazed and excited face to the other, as their new father and mother gazed, first at them, and then at the locket, and last at the beads, scarcely daring to believe the testimony of their own eyes. "To think," cried Madame Dujardin at last, "that I should not have known!
And yet I had the most powerful interest in boarding 'The Saint Louis' before she should enter port; therefore I did not hesitate." He drew from his pocket a sheet of paper, simply folded twice, and said, "Here is my apology, Lieut. Champcey; see if it is sufficient." Utterly amazed, the young officer read, "I am saved, Daniel; and I owe my life to the man who will hand you this.
The fellow himself was no less amazed at seeing Aurelia and his own sweetheart Mrs. Dolly Cowslip. He forthwith fell upon his knees, and in silence held out the letter, which was taken by the doctor, and presented to his wife, according to the direction. She did not fail to communicate the contents, which were far from being unwelcome to the individuals who composed this little society. Mr.
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