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That is very good. But the point of the story and the point of the reader's feelings is not that these things are frightening, but the far more striking fact that the hero was not frightened at them. The most fearful of all these fearful wonders was his own absence of fear.
Nat's placidity deceived Roland, who drew the wholly erroneous conclusion that he had succeeded in frightening his rival, and consequently dared a few lengths further in his tirade. "Why, if I was to go to Mr. Lockwood and tell him you're Mortimer Henry, alias Nat Duncan " Duncan's temper suddenly snapped like a taut violin string. "That will do," he said icily.
Because no time is to be lost in frightening my old housekeeper out of her wits, because I must go and prepare a dinner for you, to be sure." "Oh! Not seriously!" "Aye, and sadly too for I had much rather stay." "But how can you think of such a thing, after what the general said? When he so particularly desired you not to give yourself any trouble, because anything would do." Henry only smiled.
While, standing round my good master, we listened to his discourse, we were, without noticing it, surrounded by a troop of beggars, who, limping, shivering, spitting, frightening the sparrows, shook their swellings and deformities, spreading evil smells and suffocating us with their blessings.
"O don't you know," said Barbara, "he hides them in the garden, unless it rains or is very wet; then we have to stay in our bedrooms for fear of frightening him, and he lays them downstairs in the dining-room or drawing-room. However, this has only happened once since I was born, and I am nine years old; it must be always fine at Easter."
You are sensible; you must have felt that you were not alone in prison, that I was always with you there " "And he?" "Be silent! Be silent! If you only heard with what delight I called him scoundrel!" She burst into laughter, frightening me by the wild expression on her face. "Just think of it! All his life he embraced only a lie.
'Much more awful than the gazeka, of course, I suppose? Edith said rather rashly. 'Much, said Dilly. The gazeka? Why the gazeka's nothing at all it's a rotten little animal. It doesn't count. Besides, it isn't real it never was real. Gazeka, indeed! 'Oh, I beg your pardon, said Edith repentantly; 'do go on. 'No... the golden quoribus is far-ar-r-r-r more frightening even than the jilbery.
It certainly looks very much as if some confederate of theirs impersonates a police official, and as if they misinterpret. The stories of spies forever in attendance seem to be manufactured for the purpose of extorting handsome gratuities from their victims for their "protection," and for the purpose of frightening the latter out of the country before their own ignorance is discovered.
For a long time I've felt the place too big for me, but when Jane Parfit, and Emma Laidlaw go off with scarcely as much as an 'if you please, after frightening the wits out of the other girls, so that they can't turn out a room by themselves or walk alone down the stairs for fear of treading on half-frozen toads or hearing it run along the passages at night, all I can say is that it's no place for me.
The sailors danced on deck, and when the prince appeared among them hundreds of rockets were let off making it as light as day, and frightening the little mermaid so much that she had to dive under the water. She soon ventured up again, and it was just as if all the stars of heaven were falling in showers round about her. She had never seen such magic fires.
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