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It was proposed to him to fetch water from a river which flowed a few miles' distance off; but he would hear of nothing of the sort. What he wanted was something new, unexpected, impossible that was his object throughout. He took a pen and drew up at a sitting the following programme, which caused our poor professors to open their eyes in dismay: 1st. We will use the water on the premises. 2ndly.

He started violently and confronted me in speechless dismay; his color coming and going like the color of a young girl. Anybody who understands women will understand that this behavior on his part, far from softening me towards him, only encouraged me to bully him.

The heavy door was thrust open and then the Grammar School boys had the surprise of their lives. No swarm had invaded their camp. Instead a solitary man, clad in heavy overcoat, and with a cap pulled down over his ears, stamped into the cabin. In his astonishment and dismay Dick Prescott could not repress the cry of: "It's Fits Mr. Fits himself!"

In an instant the creature had turned and the men were flying for their lives; but he who had cast the rope lingered, uncertain what use to make of his own success. That moment of doubt was fatal. With a yell of dismay, the man saw the great creature rear above him. Then with a crash the fore feet fell upon him and dashed him to the ground.

But I don't know when they will be over. As soon as one bigot " she broke off suddenly, with a stifled exclamation of dismay. Charles Osmond, in the dim light, with his long gray beard, had not betrayed his clerical dress; but, glancing round at him now, she saw at once that the stranger to whom she had spoken so unreservedly was by no means one of her father's followers.

He was strikingly noble in appearance; his manner was quietly dignified and self-possessed he had a finely shaped head, a kind eye, a genial smile, while his astonishment and dismay over what he had just been told seemed too genuine to be feigned. "Did you not expect to find me in your reception-room? Did no lady inform you of my arrival on the day I came here?"

The woman's malignant eyes looked poison and bullets at the two friends. "Very good. Nothing that I can do is right here, and I am tired of slaving my life out. You shall take a nurse." Pons and Schmucke exchanged glances in dismay. "Oh! you may look at each other like actors. I mean it. I shall ask Dr. Poulain to find a nurse for you. And now we will settle accounts.

Then he saw, to his dismay, that little as he had thought he possessed, even less remained to him out of the wreck of his riches. Only one thing he had still, but that was a thing so dear to his heart that he had never looked to part with it. It was the casket of his dead wife's jewels.

And his father trusted me." His face twitched with distress. "As for being a 'mere child, there; read his letter." She took it, fumbling about for her spectacles; halfway through, she gave an exclamation of dismay. "'A few years older'? she must be twenty years older!" "Good heavens, Mary!" "Well, perhaps not quite twenty, but " Henry Houghton groaned.

As soon as she placed it she retreated again with flushed face, and took hold of Alice's arm. "There," she said, "I have done it." Alice, in her dismay, did not know what step to take. She could not scold her friend now, as the eyes of many were turned upon them, nor could she, of course, leave her, as she had threatened.