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She nodded gravely and leaned softly on my arm while we marched out of the theatre to her hotel I in such a state of happiness underlying bewilderment and strong expectation that I should have cried out loud had not pride in my partner restrained me.
It developed that Gideon and Harvey D. reasoned themselves into sheer bewilderment in an effort to find reasons that would commend themselves to Merle; so that this first meeting of the conspirators was about to break up fruitlessly, when Sharon Whipple was inspired to a suggestion that repelled yet pricked the other two until they desperately yielded to it.
He gazed at each in embarrassed bewilderment, and Roselle, her chin still on her palms, and her eyes bright and stony, commented on his explanation. She drawled: "Osborn, you're a liar. Your wife knows as well as I do that she could divorce you to-morrow." "But Miss Dates would be a fool, which I am sure she is not," said the wife's pretty voice, "if she imagines I would do it."
Then, sitting in Beth's little chair close beside him, Jo told her troubles, the resentful sorrow for her loss, the fruitless efforts that discouraged her, the want of faith that made life look so dark, and all the sad bewilderment which we call despair. She gave him entire confidence, he gave her the help she needed, and both found consolation in the act.
And their steady stare shocked her as though in some sense she knew that she was naked. They saw so much of her: she saw of them so little. Her efforts to return their gaze were pitiful. The constant shifting increased her bewilderment. Conscious of this awful and enormous sight all over her, she let her eyes first rest upon the ground, and then she closed them altogether.
The lawyers stared at Allan, and Allan, returning the compliment, stared at the lawyers. "What on earth are you wondering at, gentlemen?" he inquired, with a boyish bewilderment in his good-humored blue eyes. "Why shouldn't I give the ladies their two months, if the ladies want them? Let the poor things take their own time, and welcome. My rights? and my position? Oh, pooh! pooh!
Worst of all the scene at the Vicarage, the book held in her slender fingers, her look of bewilderment and distress what a pompous ass he had been, how stupid and coarse! He thought of writing to her; he did write but the dignified patronage of his elder-brotherly style sickened him, and he tore up his unfinished letter.
A pair of eager-eyed women gazing on a battle-field for the first time could but ask themselves in bewilderment whether the fate of countries were verily settled in such a fashion. Far in the rear, Vittoria and Laura heard the cannon-shots; a sullen dull sound, as of a mallet striking upon rotten timber. They drove at speed.
Yet notwithstanding the fact that his appearance was so far grotesque, I felt no inclinations whatever towards mirth. His coal-black eyes were fixed upon me steadfastly, his tiny wrinkled face seemed like the shrivelled and age-worn caricature of some Eastern magician. He showed no signs of pleasure or of welcome at my coming, nor did he share any of the bewilderment with which I gazed at him.
I have clung to them as long as I can, and in throwing them over I don't know where I shall land." His voice was measured, his words chosen, yet they expressed a withering indignation and contempt which were plainly the culmination of months of bewilderment now replaced by a clear-cut determination. "I do not blame any individual," he continued, "but the system by which clergymen are educated.
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