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Just as they were about to start again, both Estra and Myrin stopped short in their tracks, with that odd hesitation that had mystified the four all along; and after perhaps five seconds of silence turned to one another with grave faces. It was Estra who explained. "It is curious how things do pile up," said he, a little conscious of having employed an idiom.
This might moreover have been taken to be the sense of a remark made by her stepfather as one rainy day when the streets were all splash and two umbrellas unsociable and the wanderers had sought shelter in the National Gallery Maisie sat beside him staring rather sightlessly at a roomful of pictures which he had mystified her much by speaking of with a bored sigh as a "silly superstition."
So we left the boat moored there, and went on up the slow slope of the hill; but I said to Dick on the way, being somewhat mystified: "What was all that laughing about? what was the joke!"
"I beg your pardon," I put in, rather mystified. "I'm afraid I don't know very much about the Navy. What's a chief buffer?" "Chief Bos'un's Mate, wot looks arter the upper deck, sir. Name o' Scroggins. Well, sir, Number One sez to 'im, 'Scroggins, 'e sez. 'You knows them buoys we was usin' yesterday? 'Yessir, I 'ears the chief buffer say.
He added that his new employer said that he wished Mrs. Holl to go round with her husband. John and Sarah were greatly mystified with the latter part of this message, until the solution occurred to them that probably their late employer had mentioned that Mrs. Holl went out charring and cleaning, and that he might intend to engage her to keep the office tidy.
He had closed his campaign. Right then and there he landed the great Barrata Bridge contract. Lowe, mystified beyond measure by his friend's action, made no comment until they were outside. Then he exclaimed: "I say, old top, what blew off?" Hanford smiled at him queerly. "The whole top of young Wylie's head blew off, if he only knew it.
At the moment the mystified explorers were discussing the strange appearance and actions of the white men, more than twenty of the athletic barbarians issued as stealthily as phantoms from the trail leading from the forest and crouched along the edge of the timber.
Therefore she was quite as mystified when she fell asleep at dawn as she had been when first her discovery was made. She was half determined to probe for an explanation of the coincidence when she came downstairs to a late breakfast. But no good opportunity presented itself for the broaching of any such inquiry.
Bates is as honest as" words failed her "as as honest and as good as you don't even know how to think of." He was like a necromancer who, although triumphant at having truly raised a spirit by his incantations, quails mystified before it. "Oh well, since you feel so badly about it I'll not say that you mayn't outwit him if you put in your claim.
"What a shame!" cried Gwen, indignantly. "What a bad man he must be!" The Pilot smiled. "No, indeed," he answered; "why, he's the best man in the place, but I wish he would say or do something. If he would only get mad and swear I think I should feel happier." Gwen looked quite mystified.
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