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His feelings toward the perpetrators of this gruesome sport were such that he dared not think about them yet. No punishment seemed too great for such. And she, his little Starr, had looked upon that shameful scene; had seen the man she was expecting to marry lying as one dead ! It was too awful! And what had it done to her? Had it killed her? Had the shock unsettled her mind?
"No," he said, shaking his head, "I'm afraid it would shock her. It's my fault, I know," he added, remorsefully. "I ought to have told you." Then an idea came to him. "I suppose," he said, "you wouldn't care to pretend you were ill, and stop in bed just for the day?" I explained that my conscience would not permit my being a party to such deception "No, I thought you wouldn't," he replied.
Isn't this candy scrumptious? I've eaten far more than is good for me already but I'm going to keep recklessly on." After a little silence Miss Lavendar said abruptly, "It gave me a shock to hear about Stephen's son that first day you were here, Anne. I've never been able to mention him to you since, but I've wanted to know all about him. What sort of a boy is he?"
When he came to himself again after the shock he could not in the least imagine in what world he was. All around him it was quite dark, and the darkness was so black and so profound that it seemed to him that he had fallen head downwards into an inkstand full of ink. He listened, but he could hear no noise; only from time to time great gusts of wind blew in his face.
"Oh, don't fence!" she cried, rather sharply. I had become agitated, but her next words gave me a shock that was momentarily paralyzing. "I asked you to come here to-day, Hugh, because I wished you to know that I have made up my mind to marry Hambleton Durrett." "Hambleton Durrett!" I echoed stupidly. "Hambleton Durrett!" "Why not?" "Have you have you accepted him?" "No. But I mean to do so."
I was so interested in her that, how shall I say it, her exclamation made no connection in my brain at first. I also noticed that she had sidled up a little nearer to Captain Anthony, before it occurred to me to turn my head. I can tell you my neck stiffened in the twisted position from the shock of actually seeing that old man! He had dared!
The shock was so great it threw Dick and me clear across the room, and through a doorway into the next room. But the poor jibberjacker fared still worse." "How vos dot?" "He flew up against the outside wall, and his weight was so great he went right through the side of the building, and landed on some rocks below.
His austerity silenced the talkative driver, and when the stage reached the hotel the colonel parted from him without a word and clicked away briskly on his military heels built up to give him stature to see what he might surprise out of joint at the post. Perhaps it was a shock to his valuation of his own indispensability to find everything in proper form at the post.
To it the space between the heavenly bodies is not greater than the distance between the homes of our friends in town is for us, even if they live a short way from each other; such an electric shock in the heart, however, costs us the use of the body here below; unless, like the watchman of East Street, we happen to have on the Shoes of Fortune. * A Danish mile is nearly 4 3/4 English.
"Doctor doesn't know," he answered. "There's got to be an expert. It'll take time before he gets here, but " he could not help but say it, seeing how great her distress was "but it's going to come back. I've seen cases I saw one down on the Border" how easily he lied! "just like his. It was blasting that done it the shock.
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