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Seconds passed. Andy did not utter a word. From behind scenes Miss Prouty prompted him. "We welcome you, dear parents," she said in a voice barely audible to the audience. Andy's lips did not move. His face looked frozen in fright. He just stood there. Miss Prouty prompted him again. Still Andy did not open his mouth. Some boy near the back of the hall clapped.
"Why didn't you come up, then, instead of skulking down here?" inquired the girl. The mate scratched the back of his neck and smiled, but weakly. "Well, I I thought" he began, and stopped. "You thought" prompted Miss Cringle coldly. "I thought a little fright would do you good," said the mate, speaking quickly, "and that it would make you appreciate me a little more when I did come." "Ahoy!
When I was taken before the judge, and, terrified as I was, questioned with so much roughness that I suspected a desire to fright me further, so that I might say whatever they that questioned me desired, even then they could, happily, discover nothing that told against my mistress, because I knew nothing.
Then the duchess reached once more for the mirror to assure herself that her eyes had not been deceived, but her fingers trembled so with excitement that the glass slipped from her hand and fell to the floor where it broke in a thousand pieces. What a fright it gave them!
Probably they took us for a convoy of provisions going from Toulon to Genoa; and it was to this error and the darkness that we were indebted for escaping with no worse consequence than a fright.
For a long time not a sound indicative of the presence of human life was heard, then a woman's cry of fright came from above. Ned was about to hasten forward when a voice came to his ears from the darkness. "We can't permit either of them to leave!" the low, well-modulated voice he had heard before that night said. "Even if we get away with the prince, their stories would ruin us.
I have been rubbing him with some eau-de-Cologne, and by-and-by he will be able to take his bath at the piscina." Thereupon M. Vigneron sat down and began to devour. But what an awful fright he had had! He again began talking of it aloud, despite himself, so intense had been his terror at the thought that the lad might go off before his aunt.
I said I wouldn't stay in the other bed by myself, so I got in with the others; we put out the light again, and it had only been a couple of minutes out when the bed ran out on the floor with the three of us. Richard struck a match again, and this time we all got up and put on our clothes; we had got a terrible fright and couldn't stick it any longer.
Amid the tears and fright of the people, the idols were torn down; Perun was flogged and thrown into the Dnieper. Then the old pagan stream was consecrated, and men, women, and children, old and young, master and slave, were driven into the river, the Greek priests standing on the banks reading the baptismal service.
Once the Dean broke through, being a little careless of where he was stepping; but I got him out, with no more harm coming to him than a cold bath and a fright. "Soon after this we made a valuable discovery.
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