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It was nearly eleven o'clock at night when the insurgents entered the town by the Porte de Rome. The workmen remaining in Plassans had opened the gate for them, in spite of the wailings of the keeper, from whom they could only wrest the keys by force. This man, very jealous of his office, stood dumbfoundered in the presence of the surging crowd.
She is beginning to be afraid that the country is one in which even she herself cannot live in safety." And the men looked to be dumbfoundered and sheepfaced. They kept out of Captain Clayton's way, and answered him as little as possible. "What's the good of axing when ye knows that I knows nothing?"
'Fore gad, she's quite dumbfoundered! Well, but Pamela, said my lady, come hither, and tell me truly, Dost thou think thyself really married? Said I, and approached her chair, My good lady, I'll answer all your commands, if you'll have patience with me, and not be so angry as you are: But I can't bear to be used thus by this gentleman, and your ladyship's woman.
"And when you were getting yourself up for Dasha you sprinkled yourself with scent," she said suddenly, in a terrible whisper. Stepan Trofimovitch was dumbfoundered. "You put on a new tie..." Again silence for two minutes. "Do you remember the cigar?" "My friend," he faltered, overcome with horror.
"Wall," sez I in weak axents, and dumbfoundered, "any whale story I could hear about Chicago wouldn't surprise me a mite." And I wiped my brow on my white linen handkerchief, for though the idee didn't surprise me none, it started the sweat. Sez Josiah, "It is 225 feet long, and has a fountain in it, and a skylight 138 feet long."
But let him have his hands entirely to himself, give him nothing to "lay hold of," and he is completely dumbfoundered on the spot.
The dark gloomy corners of the little drawing-room, the ikons behind the coffin, the coffin itself, everything except the softly glimmering lights, were still as death, as the tomb itself. "How strange!" I thought, dumbfoundered by the unexpected panorama of death. "Why this haste? The lodger has hardly had time to hang himself, or shoot himself, and here is the coffin already!" I looked round.
But he was not here much of the time, only to sleep and to his meals. And as he said this, what should that almost angel man do but to put a key in my hand, so Josiah and I could come in any time, whether he wuz here or not. Why, I wuz fairly dumbfoundered, and so wuz Josiah. But we thanked him warm, very warm, warmer than the weather, and that stood more'n ninety in the shade.
Dyukovsky held the candle-end to the face of the unknown and uttered a shriek. In the crimson nose, in the ruffled, uncombed hair, in the pitch-black moustaches of which one was jauntily twisted and pointed insolently towards the ceiling, he recognised Cornet Klyauzov. "You. . . . Mark . . . Ivanitch! Impossible!" The examining magistrate looked up and was dumbfoundered.
With this defiance, I walked nonchalantly out of the dumbfoundered group, found my horse, and rode homewards. My coolness did not last many minutes, and long ere I had reached James Town I was a prey to dark forebodings. Here was I, a peaceful trader, who desired nothing more than to live in amity with all men, involved in a bloody strife. I had sought it, and yet it had been none of my seeking.
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