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Mary still hesitated, and Boone was no little puzzled to conjecture rightly what it was she intended to impart; but he was convinced it must be something of no ordinary nature that would induce a maiden of reputed timidity to leave her father's hut at a late hour of the night.
"She shrank back on the pillow, as still as death, the instant she saw it; but didn't cry, and looked more puzzled and astonished, I should say, than distressed. But she was breathing dreadful quick I felt that, as I stooped down and kissed her. 'She's too young, says the doctor, 'to know what the extent of her calamity really is.
There must be sore hearts somewhere, I'm afraid," and she lifted the tiny waif for Robin to kiss her before he set off. 'But ask as he might there was nothing to be heard of a strayed child, and as the day went on the boy felt more and more puzzled.
But when she saw him sitting there with his back to her, crying, she was puzzled and disturbed. As she watched, she saw him fumble for something under the quilt, then lift a shining pistol, and place the muzzle to his thin, bald temple. With a cry of terror, she dashed forward and knocked the weapon from his hand.
He took sick, and the doctors were puzzled. They thought it might be something wrong with his spine. They had a consultation five of them with the poor little chap on the bed, naked. They wouldn't let me in, so I listened in the hallway, pressed against the door with my face to the crack.
Strangely enough, this troubled him little; there are times in a man's life when even the most momentous of happenings shrink into nothing beside the simple process of telling the girl he loves that he loves her. The President was somewhat startled by the House Surgeon's commonplace acceptance of the board's decision; and he returned to the board-room distinctly puzzled.
Ralph halted his men and proceeded toward this sound, and then discovered what the fog had prevented them from seeing before, that they were passing through a village, the voices being those of some women who were brought to their doors by the sound of music, and who were somewhat puzzled at the, to them, mysterious sounds." "What place is this?" Ralph asked. "It is Kilmaknocket." "Bless me!" Mr.
Sinbad was in the cargo space when the first of the logs came in. With his usual curiosity the striped tom cat prowled along the wood, sniffing industriously. Suddenly he stopped short, spat and backed away, his spine fur a roughened crest. Having backed as far as the inner door he turned and slunk out. Puzzled, Dane gave the wood a swift inspection.
We're all suffocating for some fresh air, and if you don't get started pretty soon we sha'n't get on deck to-day. 'Get on deck! he said, looking up at me with a puzzled expression, and holding fast to the brown shoe on his knee with both hands, as if he were afraid I would take it away from him by main strength 'get on deck! Why why I believe I'd better not go out this morning, don't you?"
They're neighbors of your'n." "They are not!" she suddenly flashed back at him. "Well, now," he returned slowly, puzzled, but knowing that somehow he was getting things wrong, "I reckon there's a lot that I don't know." "If you are going to work over at the Two Diamond," she said coldly, "you will know more than you do now. My "
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