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To this letter there was a grateful reply in which Tom read with a smile his father's half-bewildered attempt to get over to the new point of view. It began, "Dear Buddy," and ended, "Your affectionate pappy," but there was man-to-man matter between the salutation and the signature.
To and fro, to and fro, gravely persistent, sublimely eloquent, the huge, sustained, and heavy monotone went thudding through the stillness, till, startled from his profound sleep by such loud, lofty, and incessant clangor, Alwyn turned on his pillow and listened, half-aroused, half-bewildered, then, remembering where he was, he understood; it was the great Bell of the Dom pealing forth its first summons to the earliest Mass.
Brand, in the half-bewildered condition of mind to which long anxiety and sorrow had reduced her, did not know the virtue of silence, and did not possess the magic quality of tact. "You might find companions down here," she said, pertinaciously, "people suited to your position old friends of your father's, perhaps " "Will they be so willing to make friends with my father's son?"
"Your loving, adoring, half-homesick, half-bewildered, somewhat dizzy little girl, "Lahoma. "P. S. Nobody has been able to tell from word or look of mine that I have ever been surprised at a single thing I have heard or seen. You may be quite sure of that." "I bet you!" cried Willock admiringly. "NOW, what do you think of it?"
"You've lost your place a'ready, I suppose?" he said, trying to steady himself by some familiar contact, an effort that would have been absurd if it had not been so pathetic. Arthur nodded, as stolid as an owl. His father continued to search him with the same half-bewildered stare. "What are you going to do, then?" he asked. "She and I are going back, whatever happens." Arthur said.
When the time of embarkation arrived, the agent stepped aboard the tug and called out their names one by one, when Bridget and Catherine and Patrick and Michael, and the rest, came aboard, received their tickets, and passed "forward," with a half-frightened, half-bewildered look.
Powers, with the half-bewildered air of one suddenly made conscious that he had been entertaining angels unawares, said, reflectively, "I think we must have them to tea." The youth begged to take the card which bore the poet's address, and, hastening to his room near the Piazza Novella, he wrote a note asking permission for a young American to call and pay his respects to Mr. and Mrs.
But in spite of all her efforts to be brave, and not look as though she was frightened, she crept into the kitchen looking cowed and half-bewildered with terror, and before she could utter a word of her song, Coomber pounced upon her. "What do yer look like that for?" he demanded; "what business have you to be frightened of me?" Tiny turned her white face towards him, and ventured to look up.
Did she kiss you?" Blair nodded. He held his head high, balancing it a little from side to side; his lips were thrust out, his eyes shone. He was standing with his feet well apart, his hands deep in his pockets; he laughed, reddening to his forehead, but he was not embarrassed. For once David's old look of silent, friendly admiration did not answer him; instead there was half-bewildered dismay.
His love, moreover, had been refused by Agatha, and he deemed this refusal an injury which demanded vengeance from his hands; from the moment in which he left her room in Durbelliere, schemes had floated across his half-bewildered brain for the accomplishment of his object.
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