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Sir! sir! gasped the terrified young man. 'You are, continued M. de Véron, 'entitled to a month's salary, in lieu of that period of notice one hundred francs, with which you may credit yourself in the cash account you will please to balance and bring me as quickly as possible. 'Sir! sir! again bewilderedly iterated the panic-stricken clerk, as he turned distractedly from father to son 'Sir!
You have only to stretch out your feather mantle, flap it as if it was wings so" he flapped his own wings encouragingly "wish, and there you'll be." "Where?" said Griselda bewilderedly. "Wherever you wish to be, of course," said the cuckoo. "Are you ready? Here goes." "Wait wait a moment," cried Griselda. "Where am I to wish to be?" "Bless the child!" exclaimed the cuckoo.
Hobart again, over the balusters. And Elijah, Mrs. Hobart's Yankee man-servant, brought up on her father's farm, clattered up stairs in his thick boots, that sounded on the smooth oak as if a horse were coming. Mrs. Marchbanks looked bewilderedly around her room again. "They'll break everything!" she said, and took down a little Sèvres cup from a bracket. "There, Mrs. Marchbanks!
Down a steep, stone spiral stair they went, and at the bottom, at the general's order, the black set Ryder down from his shoulder and flung aside the portière. From its muffling folds Ryder looked out bewilderedly into the darkness about him, illumined only by the yellow flare of the ancient lantern.
Gervase looked at him bewilderedly. "Why, Denzil, is it you? My dear fellow, forgive me my brusquerie! I believe I have got a stroke of the sun, or something of the sort; I assure you I hardly know what I am doing or where I am going!" "I believe it!" said Denzil, hoarsely. "You are as mad as I am for love!" Gervase smiled; a slight incredulous smile. "You think so? I am not sure!
Do you, Jim?" Richie merely flung up his head and set his lips. Jim put one arm around her. "He's pretty ill, dear," he said gently, and Julia found his smooth tenderness infinitely less bearable than Richie's bluntness. "Why, but what are you talking about what do you mean I don't know what you mean!" Mrs. Toland said bewilderedly.
This done, he stood back, still beaming happily, while the astounded Sarah tittered bewilderedly. For his own part, Dick was quite unashamed. He loved his father. For once, he had expressed that fondness in a primitive fashion, and he was glad. The older man withdrew a step, and there rested motionless, under the sway of an emotion akin to dismay.
But here and there in the streets of cities walk the damned creatures denied the miracle of sanity and who move bewilderedly through their scene, staring at the flying days as at the fragments of another world. They are conscious of themselves only as vacuums within which life is continually expiring. "Alas, the damned!
Even with his muddled brains he had an intimation that there was more in the statement than there seemed. "I don't see why," he said bewilderedly. Again Sidwell leaned forward. Again his face grew passionate and magnetic. "The reason why is this. I have had enough, and more than enough, of this life I've been living.
But in the next breath escape was forgotten and he was looking about him in sheer amazement. Here was his hallway, but no longer empty. A shield-backed chair stood beside the parlor door. A settle ran along the wall beyond. A pink-cheeked moon leered at him from the top of a tall clock. Bewilderedly he looked toward the sitting-room. There, too, everything was changed. The floor was painted gray.
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