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Maggie could hardly be ignorant of the fact that Catrina had grown to womanhood loving Paul. A score of times Catrina approached the subject, and with imperturbable steadfastness Maggie held to her determination that Paul was not to be discussed by them. She warded, she evaded, she ignored with a skill which baffled the simple Russian.
"There's generally no good behind a mystery," he remarked. "Maybe," said Bela. "But I not goin' tell all I know." There was something highly exasperating to a young man in her cool, smiling air. He stood looking at her, feeling oddly flat and baffled. Suddenly she turned her head to listen. "They gettin' up now," she said quickly. "Go and wash."
First, there was a very large brown Dog that had pursued him many times, a Dog that he always got rid of by slipping through a hole in a board fence. Second, there was a small active Dog that could follow through that hole, and him he baffled by leaping a twenty-foot irrigation ditch that had steep sides and a swift current. The Dog could not make this leap.
New and valuable information is thus afforded us regarding the properties of the ether, but will this enable us to construct a material representation of this medium which fills the universe, and so to solve a problem which has baffled, as we have seen, the prolonged efforts of our predecessors? Certain scholars seem to have cherished this hope. Dr.
They had become strongly bound to her. All the more perhaps because she held them firmly to the understanding that her life touched theirs only at the point of the stranger in need of a small sum of money. Repulsed and baffled in their wish to know her better, they nevertheless became aware that she was undergoing a wonderful transformation on her own account.
"Don't you?" said Parson, with genuine astonishment. "He's captain's fag, you know." "I must repeat I do not know," reiterated Mrs Patrick. "Oh, well, he's only been that a little time, since the sports, you know, when old Wyndham left. I say, ma'am, are you going to be at the race on Wednesday?" Mrs Patrick looked somewhat baffled as she replied, "I think it very possible."
Duplay had been baffled by Harry's diplomacy and expected no action from his side. To Neeld such a development seemed possible, and it was the only thing which to his mind could throw light on Mina's behavior. "Won't you show us the letter?" he asked gently. "Oh, yes. And I'll tell you anything you like now. It doesn't matter now." She looked at Neeld; she was loyal to the end.
And we are desired to believe that, in this case, the baffled assailant rode off in a spirit of benign candor, saying aloud to himself, like the excellent philosopher that he evidently was, 'Caught a Tartar! But another story of a sporting baronet, who was besides a Member of Parliament, is much worse, and altogether degrading to Coleridge.
I was in their eyes a rebel, whose better fortune had saved him from the fate of his companions. My youth had given no guarantee for my manhood; and I was not trusted. Baffled in every endeavor to obliterate my secret grief, I recurred to it now, as though privileged by fate, to indulge a memory nothing could efface.
Show them we are as proud as they are, Harry, and a fig for the whole foreign lot! Come to Riversley soon, and be happy. What did that mean? Heriot likewise said in a letter: 'So it's over? The proud prince kicks? You will not thank me for telling you now what you know I think about it. I appealed to my father. 'Canvass! canvass! cried he; and he persistently baffled me.
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