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Certainly he was in a most trying situation for a mere boy fully five miles from the shanty, with an almost untravelled road between that must be traversed by him alone, while the injured man would have to lie helpless in the snow until his return. Little wonder if he felt in sore perplexity as to what should be done, and how he should act under the circumstances. If Frank was undecided, Mr.
Sight of her was like a blade in my side. But the looks of her an' what she is they don't gibe. Old as I am, my heart Bah! Ellen Jorth is a damned hussy!" Jean Isbel went off alone into the cedars. Surrender and resignation to his father's creed should have ended his perplexity and worry.
But though my slumber had gone by, This dream it would not pass away It seems to live upon mine eye; and For she, belike, hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep; and again With such perplexity of mind As dreams too lively leave behind.
As this letter reached Caspar's Mill in the same mail with those from Winn and the owner of the Whatnot, who, in writing to the Major, had used his old army name, and signed himself "Respectfully yours, Cap'n Cod," it may easily be imagined that Billy Brackett's perplexity was as nothing compared to that of his sister. What could it all mean?
The Latins call such bundles manipuli and from hence it is that in their armies still they call their captains manipulares. Remus rousing the citizens within to revolt, and Romulus making attacks from without, the tyrant, not knowing either what to do, or what expedient to think of for his security, in this perplexity and confusion was taken and put to death.
His perplexity would then have been how God being just, could require of a man more than he could do, and punish him as if his sin were that of a perfect being who chose to do the evil of which he knew all the enormity. For me, I will call no one Master but Christ and from him I learn that his quarrel with us is that we will not do what we know, will not come to him that we may have life.
His brow became corrugated, and it was evident that the detective was enjoying a spell of the deepest perplexity. "It must be that the fellow's mind wandered," mused Dyke Darrel. "Of course I cannot accept as evidence the ragged, half-conscious utterances of a dying man. He spoke of Nick and the boy. There may be something in that. The boy? Who could that be but Martin Skidway?
Meantime, Tom had observed that he had time to see that Aubrey was decently prepared for Cambridge, and further promoted the boy to be his out-of-door companion, removing all the tedium and perplexity of the last few weeks, though apparently merely indulging his own inclinations.
Some of the noblest and sweetest souls on earth have given way to chill hopelessness, and only a very bold or a very thick-sighted man could blame them; we must be tender towards all who are perplexed, especially when we see how terrible are the reasons for perplexity.
"Commander of the faithful," replied the grand vizier, "I beg your majesty to grant me time to make enquiry." "I will allow thee no more," said the caliph, "than three days." The vizier Jaaffier went home in great perplexity.
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