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It was the chair that had held Peter, and Mr. Grainger examined the seat as though he suspected a bent pin. "Because," said Honora, "because it isn't comfortable. Pull up that other one." Again mystified, he did as he was told. She remembered his reputation for going to sleep, and wondered whether she had been wise in her second choice. But it soon became apparent that Mr.
Here were shelves in solid tiers along the walls, crowded with such an array of strange objects that Raf, after one mystified look, thought that it might well take months to sort them all out. In addition, long tables divided the chamber into aisles. Halfway down one of these narrow passageways the aliens had gathered in a group as silent and intent now as they had been noisy outside.
It sped round and round with such swiftness that it resembled a wheel of fire without the slightest break in the flaming periphery. "What can it mean?" asked the mystified Jack. "I vos told something apout afire dot vos to jump apout in one circle," was the remarkable statement of Otto. "What was it?" "I don't forgot him now," replied the German with the hesitating speech of one in doubt.
It would not be well for the boy, or any one else, to be the means of the governor's learning La Tournoire's hiding-place!" After which words, spoken with a kind of ominous menace, Blaise abruptly left the girl, and strode around the corner of the chateau. The maid stood still a few moments, then went into the chateau. Completely mystified, I crossed the courtyard and called Blaise.
Féodor," he added, turning to me with that lofty air which his low mujik mind sometimes conceived to be superiority, "go and find this mysterious young person." A few minutes later I conducted into the saint's presence a dark-haired, extremely handsome young woman of about thirty, who spoke with considerable refinement and whose arrival mystified me greatly.
"The murder was committed in a moment of passion, and yet it was far from being unpremeditated." "You are trying to mystify me," said Rolfe despairingly. "No; it is the case itself which has mystified you," replied Crewe. "It has," was Rolfe's candid confession. "The more thought I give it, the more impossible it seems to see through it.
Being somewhat mystified with all this, the reverend father said to the half-caste: "What are you going to do with that crucifix?" "Nothing," said Faringhea, still absorbed in painful thought. "Nothing?" resumed the reverend father, in astonishment. "What, then, was the use of bringing it so far?"
Glancing at Redmond he turned and walked unsteadily into the detachment. Perturbed and utterly mystified at the sordid drama he had witnessed, its amazing combination of brutality and pathos, George remained rooted to the spot as one in a dream. Instinctively though, he felt that this was not the first time of its enactment.
Marion did not look so mystified as I expected at this unusual outburst. 'Thank you for the warning, Elizabeth, she said in an affable tone. 'You gotta rival for 'is affeckshuns, continued Elizabeth. Marion raised an eyebrow in my direction. 'No doubt, she commented. 'What is all this nonsense? I asked, a little testily. 'Elizabeth is, as you know, a fatalist, explained Marion.
And presently, still mystified, but gathering courage, he asked her why she blushed, at which her colour deepened. "I can't help it," she told him. "I like it," the boy said.
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