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'Am I never to advise? asked her husband, baffled, and even awed, by this extraordinary revelation of a woman he had supposed himself to know thoroughly. 'Oh, that's a very different thing from forbidding and commanding! she laughed. 'There was that novel this morning.
Lewis had, during seven years, been scheming and labouring in vain to break the great array of potentates whom the dread of his might and of his ambition had brought together and kept together. But, during seven years, all his arts had been baffled by the skill of William; and, when the eighth campaign opened, the confederacy had not been weakened by a single desertion.
They were as baffled as Jack was, and would have welcomed help from anyone who could offer it. And, ironically, the first glimpse of the truth came from the direction they least expected. From the very beginning Fuzzy had been watching the proceedings from his perch on the swinging platform in the control room.
The two rivers hung slowly dying in the mists of smoke. They reddened and faded, and you thought they had vanished, and you could see them yet, and then they escaped the baffled eye, unless a cloud aided them for a moment against the sun; and their ephemeral but enchanting beauty had expired for ever. "Now!" said Edwin sharply.
One's doom, however, was never baffled, and on the day she told him his own had come down she had seen him but stupidly stare at the escape she offered him. The escape would have been to love her; then, THEN he would have lived. Her spoken words came back to him the chain stretched and stretched.
I therefore threw open a casement in the staircase, which looked into an old-fashioned garden, and as the height did not exceed six feet, I jumped out without hesitation, and soon heard far behind the "hey whoop! stole away! stole away!" of my baffled pursuers.
'Mind yourself rather than either of us, and stay where you are! said Nicholas. 'Will you call down Bray? cried Ralph. 'Remember that you come near me at your peril, said Nicholas. Gride hesitated. Ralph being, by this time, as furious as a baffled tiger, made for the door, and, attempting to pass Kate, clasped her arm roughly with his hand.
The Kachin with the spear had made his stroke so heartily, and with such certainty of reaching his mark, that on missing his blow he sprawled forward. Mr. Haydon bent down, gripped the strong shaft behind the spear-head, and tore the weapon from the baffled Kachin's grasp.
This was kept up for two months, but the captain successfully baffled his enemies during the whole of that period. The opponents of Mr. Gibbons offered a larger and better boat than the one he commanded if he would enter their service, but he firmly declined all their offers, avowing his determination to remain with Mr. Gibbons until the difficulty was settled.
Baffled and out-generaled by this brilliant sortie, I meander down to the other end of the village and invade the premises of an old man engaged in chopping up a piece of pork with a cleaver.
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