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This interruption amazed and perplexed all on board, but no one was able to remedy it, or to account for it satisfactorily. It lasted for two hours, and then, just as the order was about to be given to cut the cable and endeavor to wind it in, it came back as suddenly and mysteriously as it had disappeared. The greatest delight was now manifested by all on board.
Burdened churchmen, inquiring students in the spiritual life, perplexed confessors, angry and remonstrating monks, husbands and wives, matrons and maidens, all find their way to Mother Teresa.
"Noble sire and king," he cried, "do me not this wrong! I am not overthrown nor scathed nor subdued, I yield not. By every knightly law till one champion yields he can call upon the other to lay on and do his worst." Edward paused, much perplexed and surprised at finding his intercession so displeasing.
He knew that she was very ill, in consequence of a fall from a horse when she was thirteen, a critical moment in a girl's life; and her despairing mother, perplexed by the contradictory advice of medical men, was taking her each year to a different watering-place. Then he learnt the startling news of the sudden tragical death of that mother, who was so severe and yet so useful to her kin.
But at 5.30, when part of the Imperial Guard was about to strengthen Gérard for the decisive blow at the Prussian centre, Vandamme sent word that a hostile force of some twenty or thirty thousand men was marching towards Fleurus. This strange apparition not only unsteadied the French left: it greatly perplexed the Emperor.
"Go on and tell us at once!" Hsueeh P'an was much perplexed. His eyes rolled about like a bell. "A girl is sad..." he hastily repeated. But here again he coughed twice before he proceeded. "A girl is sad." he said: "When she marries a spouse who is a libertine." This sentence so tickled the fancy of the company that they burst out into a loud fit of laughter.
The first two of these we have illustrated at considerable length; the third, Emotions, not being perplexed by similar ambiguities, does not require similar exemplification. And, finally, we have found it necessary to add to these three a fourth species, commonly known by the name Volitions.
At the calm words of the nurse he turned quickly toward the bed with a shudder. "Her determination to die!" he repeated in an awed whisper. Miss Farwell was watching him curiously. He whispered half to himself, wonderingly, "Why should she wish to die?" "Why should she wish to live?" The nurse's cold tones startled him. He turned to her perplexed, wondering, speechless.
"We had a fight here, and I ran the Maud into her, stove a big hole in her side, and she went to the bottom!" almost shouted Scott, who had been not a little perplexed at the manner of proceeding of the commander. "I believe that is telling the whole story in a heap, sir."
Why did you get the speech written for you, and then read it in the House without ever having it copied?" Mr. Trollop did not laugh this time; he seemed seriously perplexed. He said: "Come, play out your jest, Miss Hawkins. I can't understand what you are contriving but it seems to entertain you so please, go on." "I will, I assure you; but I hope to make the matter entertaining to you, too.
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