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Thus accoutred, they got into a hired coach which Ralph had in waiting, and drove to the residence of the fair and most wretched bride. Gride, whose spirits and courage had gradually failed him more and more as they approached nearer and nearer to the house, was utterly dismayed and cowed by the mournful silence which pervaded it.

Two others were set on fire by the flaming vessels, and were consumed. Medina Sidonia, who had been warned, even, before his departure from Spain, that some such artifice would probably be attempted, and who had even, early that morning, sent out a party of sailors in a pinnace to search for indications of the scheme, was not surprised or dismayed.

That the task the Duke had set himself was a difficult one, every man in his service knew, but they knew also that he was not a commander likely to be dismayed by mere difficulties. Villeroy, the leader of the French, had 70,000 troops with him, a larger force than the Allies could get together. It was near Tirlemont that Marlborough began his operations.

A shock of terror shook the hunter; something cold, like a drop of water, seemed to glide down his back, and, like a monk haunted of the devil, he made a great sign of the cross, dismayed at this abrupt return of the horrible prowler. But his eyes fell again on the inert body before him, and passing abruptly from fear to anger, he shook with an indescribable rage.

An aura that Mel Hastings recognized. "James Connemorra!" Mel exclaimed. The man bowed his head slightly in acknowledgement. "Yes, Mr. Hastings," he said. Mel was dismayed. "How do you know who I am?" he said. James Connemorra looked through the port beside Mel and at the stars beyond. "I have been looking for you long enough I ought to know who you are." Something in the man's voice chilled Mel.

The angry and dismayed cries all blended themselves in confusion in the ears of the only silent woman present; the only one that sounded distinctly on her brain was that of the last speaker, "A pale, mist widow," as, holding herself a little in the rear of the struggling, jostling little mob of women, who hardly made way even for their acknowledged lady, she followed with failing limbs the universal rush to the entrance as soon as man and horse had mounted the slope and were lost sight of.

"In the first chapter of Joshua," replied her father, "the Lord says to him three times, 'Be strong and of a good courage, the last time adding, 'be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. And that blessed assurance of the constant, sustaining presence of our God, each one of his children may take to him or herself."

With this beside him and his sketch-book on his knees Iskender heard the talk around him with but half an ear, and, when referred to answered without thinking, thus assenting to propositions and accepting responsibilities the onus of which dismayed him when he came to realise it.

"Never in intention," said Doctor Churchill, "only in the excess of your tenderness. Evelyn has lived in overheated rooms, with hot baths, insufficient exercise, and improper food. In the kindness of your heart you have been nourishing a little hot-house plant, and there's no occasion for surprise that it wilts at the first blast of ordinary air." Lee looked dismayed.

The shops were closed trade at a stand the streets deserted houses tenantless the oft busy creek had scarcely a boat moving on its surface the mosques were filled with the dismayed Moslems, whom poverty or self-interest had kept in the town the Christian churches held the few Armenians and Chaldeans whom fear had driven to pray with sincerity.