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Fisher nodded and turned away toward the towing path, where he saw the duke returning with a rather dazed expression. In answer to questions he said, in a husky and confidential voice: "I really think our poor friend cannot be himself. He refused to listen; he ah suggested that I might frighten the fish." A keen ear might have detected a murmur from Mr.
The reasons given were as final as they were vague, and night found the young promoter half dazed and desperately frightened at the completeness of the disaster which had overwhelmed him in the brief space of thirty-six hours. He could not blind himself to the situation.
What did it mean to him? Was it an impossible assurance of safety? The old man patted Katherine's shoulder. "Why, what you crying for, Katy? Always seems something to scare you lately." He jerked his thumb again toward the lighted windows. "You ain't told me yet what's going on in the old room." Bobby's laugh was dazed, questioning. "They're trying to account for your murder there."
"On my head be it.", replied he and going in to Judar, found him seated, in greater state than the King, upon a carpet, whose like the King could not spread, and was dazed and amazed at the goodliness of the palace and its decoration and appointments, which made him seem as he were a beggar in comparison.
Finally, however, I succeeded in rousing myself from this dazed condition, and confident as ever that Isobel was innocent of all complicity in the matter: "The presence of the photograph," I said, "takes us a step further. Don't you see, Inspector, that this is a deeply and cunningly laid trap?
The two men deposited the stretcher on the floor and came out, glancing at her white face as they passed. "Shall we carry on, Sister?" "What? . . . Oh, yes, please." They saluted awkwardly, and left her standing irresolute, as if dazed, in the midst of all the bustle and traffic of suffering. He had come back to her. Torps, who in life had never broken his word, was also faithful to it in death.
She felt herself going round and round and round in a circle, not forlorn enough to rebel or break away, but dazed and wondering and shrinking. She was like one robbed of will, made mechanical by a stern conformity to imposed rules of life and conduct.
Thinking the best thing he could do in this dazed condition would be to go back under the shelter of his little tent, he turned to do so, but found it an impossibility. The thunderbolt that had stunned him had struck the large birch tree, and so shattered it to pieces that, as it fell, it had crushed down the little wigwam into a helpless wreck.
This explains the dazed appearance of one who is told suddenly of a disaster. The mind has crawled up into these fastnesses. For the time the distance is great between it and the body of the man through which it manifests itself. An enemy has threatened, and the master has gone to hide himself. The mind is a coward, afraid always of the not-mind.
Is that a good plot?" and he smiled at her. Isabel assented, feeling dazed and overwhelmed. She could hardly bring her thoughts to a focus, for the fears that had hovered about her ever since they had left Lancashire and come down to the treacherous south, had now darted upon her, tearing her heart with terror and blinding her eyes, and bewildering her with the beating of their wings.
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