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You must come. They'll all be disappointed, if you don't. And Dick is coming that way, too. Alec Murray is to bring him on his way home from town." Again Barney glanced keenly at her face, but he saw only puzzled uncertainty there. "Well, I don't know. We'll see. At any rate, I must go now." "Wait," cried Barney, "I'll go with you. We're having dinner early to-day."
It moved so swiftly and so close to the ground, that if it had not been for the scent he might have thought it was some animal dodging about among the ditches and dry grasses. Dick could not know that when it had slipped through a gap in the hedge it became, instead of a shadow, a solid little dingy brown figure. Dick was puzzled.
"I have seen you, by Allah's aid and by His bountiful mercy, accomplishing work which will bestow great blessing and peace upon your soul." "I have thought much of all this," Michael said, "since we last met. The idea has never left me, yet I am puzzled. Why should I feel like this, when better men do not?" "God, in His almighty word, has declared a higher aim of man's existence, O my son."
Once more Gorman lamented the fact that women were mixed up in a business affair. "Damn Madame Ypsilante," he said. Then, finding some relief for his feelings in expressing them aloud: "Damn that woman's tongue." Gorman was puzzled and therefore anxious. His commission on the sale of Salissa his rake-off, as Donovan called it was large, a sum which Gorman did not want to lose.
She made Horsfield put some pressure on the people who had previously hired the boat." "That's rather strange." For a moment he looked puzzled, but almost immediately his face grew impassive, and Carroll knew that he had some idea of Jessy's treachery. He was, however, sure that any suspicions his comrade entertained would remain locked up in his breast. "I'm grateful to her, anyway," Vane added.
Auban's resolution to so suddenly quit Blois, grew of a sudden clear to me. Also did I recall the riddle touching Vilmorin's conduct which a few moments ago I had puzzled over, and of which methought that I now held the solution. "What do you understand?" asked Malpertuis. "Something that was told me this morning," I made answer, then spoke of gratitude, wherein he cut me short.
"My dear," she began in perfect English, "this is better fortune than I dreamed, to find you once again, and in Russia, of all countries!" A Former Acquaintance "But," Nona began, and then hesitated, feeling extraordinarily puzzled. The face of the woman before her was oddly familiar, although she could not at the instant recall where or when she had known her.
Even if he caught Graves, he didn't know what he could do, except that he meant to get back the papers. More and more, as he rode on, the mystery of Graves' behavior puzzled him, worried him. He knew that Graves had been sore and angry when he had not been chosen for the special duty detail. But that did not seem a sufficient reason for him to have acted as he had.
It was probable that she could never again dash all over town in the search for a yard of ribbon of a particular color: her next search was likely to be a much more serious one. The first glance at her face, and the marvellous change there exhibited, wrought in so short a time, not only puzzled but alarmed Josephine Harris.
As a matter of principle I will have no favourites; but I don't go so far as to feel grieved and annoyed by the preference some people give to my "Lord Jim." I won't even say that I "fail to understand...." No! But once I had occasion to be puzzled and surprised. A friend of mine returning from Italy had talked with a lady there who did not like the book.