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He leaped up, and seizing a large stick which lay upon the ground, he rushed towards his unhappy servant, with the intention of annihilating him upon the spot. Dandy's senses came to him when he saw Archy fall, and he was appalled at the result of the conflict. He had struck the blow upon the impulse of a momentary rage, and he would have given any thing to recall it.
His words fell on prepared ground; his wife and daughter were appalled, and as Medius went on to paint the imminent catastrophe in more vivid colors, his energy growing in proportion to its effect on them, they began at first to sob and whimper and then to wail loudly.
The bare idea of it fairly took his breath away, and with the terrible vision of pistols and bloodshed before his mind, he rushed to the police office and had his indignant visitor arrested. On entering the Green-street courthouse next day, Mr. Waterhouse told his woeful story to the judge. The judge was appalled by the disclosure; Mr.
A man may swear and yet lie 'a man may smile and smile and be a villain. I'll have proof of your loyalty to us. I'll have proof, or as there's a heaven above and a hell below, I'll rip you up." His mien was terrific, and his voice the more threatening in that it was not raised above a whisper. Richard sat back appalled, afraid. "Wha'... what proof'll satisfy you?" he asked.
There was nothing like death in it all save the heap of coffins, and from them they shrank shuddering and appalled. As the boat crept by Hurl Gate, a fearful change came over them.
"You talk of cures, and I tell you that I'm half dead for a drink right now! And I'm going to get up and dress and get it!" The expression of his features and his voice and words appalled her, left her dumb for an instant. Then she said breathlessly: "You won't do that!" "Yes I will." "No." "Why not?" he demanded excitedly. "You owe me something." "What I said was conventional.
He only looked at her in the most kindly and mollifying way. "Well, where are you taking me, then?" she asked, her voice showing the quality of fright. "I'll tell you, Carrie, if you'll be quiet. I want you to come along with me to another city." "Oh," said Carrie, her voice rising into a weak cry. "Let me off. I don't want to go with you." She was quite appalled at the man's audacity.
That is what you have done to whatever love I may have felt for you, Roderick Duncan. It lies prostrate now, and it has borne down with it, all the lesser verdure, all the little trees and bushes and vines that grew about it, and has left only a bare spot and the wounded stump. You were the woodman with the axe." "My God, Patricia!" he cried out, appalled by the agony of his loss.
So they stood shoulder to shoulder to Jan in a scheme that appalled them, and in the very first day of this scheme they saw the woman blossoming forth in her old beauty and joy, and at times fleeting visions of the old happiness at the post came to these lonely men who were searing their souls for her.
A universal and utterly uncontrollable excitement burst like a clap of thunder upon the country as this outrage, as they termed it, of the king became known, and the queen was utterly appalled at the extent and magnitude of the mischief she had done. The mischief was irremediable.
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