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Tom did not disturb him: but went away, sorely perplexed, and very much minded to tell a white lie to Armsworth, in whose eyes this would be an offence not unpardonable, for nothing with him was unpardonable, save lying or cruelty but very grievous.
And yet it gladdened me, after all this nonsense, to find you nothing but a pretty young girl, sadly perplexed with the rude behavior of the wind about your petticoats. Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring it of a thousand fantastic hues, before I could see her as she really was.
Trimmer backed out of the room, and Bobby, dropping into a chair, turned perplexed eyes upon his friend. "What do you suppose he wants?" he inquired. "Your eye-teeth," returned Jack bluntly. "He looks like a mucker to me." "Oh, I don't know," returned Bobby, a trifle uneasily. "You see, Jack, he isn't exactly our sort, and maybe we can't get just the right angle in judging him.
"And that money . I got you that money, Poff! It was my money." Benham stared at her perplexed. "What am I to do?" he asked. "Cut her off, you silly boy! Tie her up! Pay her through a solicitor. Say that if she sees him ONCE again " He reflected. "No," he said at last. "Poff!" she cried, "every time I see you, you are more and more like your father. You're going off just as he did.
"And it is very hard of you. Just because you don't care to go anywhere, you think I oughtn't to care either. That is what is so selfish about people who are old. You," wilfully, "are just as bad as Aunt Jane." The professor looks at her. His face is perplexed distressed and something more, but she cannot read that. "Well, not quite perhaps," says she, relenting slightly. "But nearly.
In any case, I shall not return until they are gone." Cecil's face cleared a little, but he was still perplexed. "They had just promised," he said, "to stay another week." "If you wish to entertain the Princess and Miss Le Mesurier," Andrew said, "and they are willing to stop after what has passed, I have nothing, of course, to say against it. But the man Forrest I will not have here.
She turned and looked at him again, calmly, indifferently, as if she scarcely saw him, and then looked out of the window again. He was upset and dreadfully perplexed, and kept looking at her sideways. Yes; it was surely his wife. How could he possibly have doubted it? There could certainly not be two noses like that, and a thousand recollections flashed through his mind.
Although there was a 'railway congress' held a few years ago, to determine on a plan for facilitating the intercourse between country and country, yet this plan did not go so far as to assimilate the moneys of the different states; the tourist speedily discovers that this is the case, and he becomes perplexed with a multiplicity of cares.
There is much magic. Perhaps the coming of night will clear the mystery." Both Dave and Barringford were much perplexed. Never before had White Buffalo acted in this manner, and it was easy to see that he was laboring under great excitement. "We may as well do what White Buffalo says," came from Dave, after he had talked to the old frontiersman in private.
After an hour Burton came in with the second post. "You do look badly, Sir Nicholas!" he said. His face was perplexed and troubled. "Can I get you anything?" "Where is Her Ladyship, Burton?" Then he told me that she had gone out. I could see he wanted to say something. His remarks are generally valuable. "Out with it, Burton." "I do think it is Mam'zelle that's causing all the trouble.
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