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"No need," said Boyle, striding forward to their great amazement, his hand outstretched. "Miss Gates and I are old friends." Agnes drew back with a frightened, shrinking start, her face very white. "I beg your pardon, sir!" she protested with some little show of indignation. "This is Miss Horton," said Walker, coming to her rescue with considerable presence. "She's one of us."
The expression of the abbe's face, which was that of amazement at the change in the room, now restored to its former state, showing me that the dying woman had sent away the repulsive preparations which surround a sick-bed. She had spent the last waning strength of fever in decorating her room to receive him whom in that final hour she loved above all things else.
Intrigued by that, Shann went back to the waterline, secured one of the lengths he had been trying to weave into his failures, and returned to use it as a makeshift shovel. Now, with three of them at the digging, the brown hump was uncovered, and Shann pried down around its edge, trying to lever it up and over. To his amazement, his tool was caught and held, nearly jerked from his hands.
These arms were found, on the day when the Persians were approaching, removed to the outward front of the temple. The priest who first observed them was struck with amazement and awe. He spread the intelligence among the soldiers and the people that remained, and the circumstance awakened in them great animation and courage.
The spring he took shot him up through the hole like an arrow taking flight. He never touched the root, but over-shot the mark and disappeared with a loud scream of amazement and alarm into the outer world. "Somebody grabbed him!" shouted Andy Sudds. "Oh, lawsy-massy-gollyation!" yelped the frightened darkey. "Massa Mark done been kerried up, suah 'nuff!
I had been in prison but a little while when a voice called out from a hole in the ground, as I was passing: "S-a-y, Sergeant! Won't you please take these shears and cut my toes off?" "What?" said I, in amazement, stopping in front of the dugout.
A friend and fellow bird-lover, driving one evening up this road, startled a bird from the nest, and, checking her horse, looked on in amazement while, one after another, six full-grown shrikes emerged from the tree and flew away. Pondering this strange circumstance she drove on, and when returning looked sharply out for the thorn-tree.
Doubleday looked at me with something like amazement as I made this request, which, however, he promised to fulfil, and then waited on Mr Merrett in the partners' room. However, he returned almost immediately, and said he was to wait until Mr Barnacle came back. It seemed ages before that event happened.
To his amazement her tense form almost instantly relaxed and in twenty minutes she was asleep. He sat there with his head bowed upon his hands for nearly two hours, thinking as he had seldom thought during his whole life. At the end of that time the door of Dorothy's room was noiselessly opened and Mrs. Minturn beckoned to him.
But when Gertrude, flushed with the excitement of the scene through which she had just passed, and beaming with a loveliness that derived so much of its character from its innocence, appeared on his deck, the veteran rubbed his-eyes in an amazement which could not have been greatly surpassed, had one of that species of beings the Rover had named actually fallen at his feet from the skies.
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