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Washington that every move he made was like a goaded bull his halts merely the bewilderment of baffled fury, his charges blind and bellowing.
"Who would have thought I had so much feeling left in me?" For once in her life the doctor's face told the truth, when the study door opened between ten and eleven at night, and Miss Gwilt entered the room. "Mercy on me!" he exclaimed, with a look of the blankest bewilderment. "What does this mean?" "It means," she answered, "that I have decided to-night instead of deciding to-morrow.
For an instant, through all her wretched bewilderment, she thrilled to a high, impersonal appreciation of his saying: "If I had stayed with you, I should have tried to take you by force but you are too fine for that, Sylvia! What you could be to the man you loved if you went to him freely that is too splendid to risk losing. I want all of you heart, soul, mind or nothing!"
His sex impulses had always been crowded down to the smallest possible compass, not because he was a Puritan, but because he was, spiritually and mentally, an athlete. He had never thought of marriage as a serious possibility, Frederica's efforts to the contrary notwithstanding, until, in a moment of bewilderment, he found himself head over ears in love with Rose Stanton.
And, as they reached the entrance of the lane, his manner suddenly became most ceremonious; and, extending his hand to assist her over a drift of snow, he said in tones unnecessarily loud and formal, "Good-morning, Mrs. Philbrick. I am glad to have helped you through these drifts. Good-morning," and was gone. Mercy stood still, and looked after him for a moment with a blank sense of bewilderment.
So, at least, Miss Bacon believed; and as her bewilderment was entirely in her own thoughts, and never disturbed her perception or accurate remembrance of external things, I see no reason to doubt it, except it be the tinge of absurdity in the fact. But, in this apparently prosperous state of things, her own convictions began to falter.
I can get a job at Pete Patterson's sausage shop to-morrow." "Reform! Sausage shop! What are you talking about, you foolish boy, when I am only sending you all off for a summer holiday at the seashore?" "A summer holiday at the seashore!" echoed Dan in bewilderment. "Yes, at Freddy's place Killykinick.
At this, Strozzi sprang up, and, staring at Barbesieur, with eyes that glowed like the orbs of a wild animal "Sir," exclaimed he, "you are an insolent intruder!" "I know it," cried Barbesieur "and what next?" The marquis gazed in bewilderment at the threatening face of his self-invited guest, and then, slowly turning around, prepared to leave the room. Barbesieur rose and followed him.
With evidences of amusement, if not always approval, the jury then listened to the reading of numerous I. W. W. songs by Attorney Cooley for the prosecution, tho some of the jurymen shared in the bewilderment of the audience as to the connection between the song "Overalls and Snuff" and defendant Tracy charged with a conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.
Some have made haste to attain the court of the God of Mercy, others have fallen down on their faces in the fire of Hell, while still others are lost in bewilderment. The verses of God have been revealed, and yet they have turned away from them. His proof hath been manifested, and yet they are unaware of it.
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