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But when Hannibal himself, while he too incautiously approached the wall, fell severely wounded in the thigh by a javelin, such flight and dismay spread around, that the works and vineae had nearly been abandoned.
At the door of the Registry Office he took off his hat, held out his hand, and said good-by. "But where are you going?" Emmy asked in dismay. Septimus didn't know. He waved his hand vaguely over London, and said, "Anywhere." Emmy began to cry. She had passed most of the morning in tears.
Lisle had now time to look round and, to his dismay, the Sikh was leaning against the branch of a tree. "Are you hit?" he asked. "Yes, sahib, a ball has broken my right leg." "That is a bad business, indeed," Lisle said, kneeling beside him. "It cannot be helped, sahib. Our fate is meted out to us all, and it has come to me now.
"'Tis the honoured daughter of Sir John Penwick," and she bowed to the floor. "Ah! ah!!" He retreated in dismay and for a moment was silent, encumbered with emotions of surprise, admiration, wonderment and doubt. "Then thou art my ward and thou hatest me already " "Thou, thou Lord Cedric, the master of this great house?"
Victorine, sobbing, hung heavily on Lanty, and before he could free his hands he perceived to his dismay that the Abbe, unassisted, was climbing down from the wreck upon the rock, scarcely perhaps aware of his danger.
Hubert had seldom felt himself in a more uncomfortable position. What did this mean? Had Enid and Cynthia been comparing notes? He looked from one to the other in helpless dismay, and scarcely answered Enid's inquiry as he sank into the chair that Tom Jenkins wheeled forward for him. Cynthia had turned her back upon the company, and was again putting on her little black hat.
Grace Noir has found it all out " "Then she will tell!" Abbott exclaimed, in dismay. "She would have told but for one thing. She doesn't dare, and it's on her own account of course. She has been terribly well, indiscreet. You can't think to what lengths she was willing to go not from coldly making up her mind, but because she lost grip on herself, from always thinking she couldn't.
She had her campaign carefully laid out; she had mapped it in the cab between the parsonage and the hotel. "Grandmother," she began as the old lady looked up with a frown because of her long, unexpected absence, "I must tell you that just before we left Washington Craig broke the engagement." Madam Bowker half-started from her chair. "Broke the engagement!" she cried in dismay.
"Well, Adeline is a Baroness!" retorted Betty in a vicious and formidable tone. "Listen to me, you old libertine. You know how matters stand; your family may find itself starving in the gutter " "That is what I dread," said Hulot in dismay. "And if your brother were to die, who would maintain your wife and daughter? The widow of a Marshal gets at least six thousand francs pension, doesn't she?
But he did not know what his creditors would immediately have the power of doing. That the fact of the bill having been dishonoured would reach the Board under which he served, and, therefore, also the fact that he had had recourse to such bill transactions, this alone was enough to fill him with dismay.
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