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It will shock her, poor thing! in her present state of health, to tell her of so sad an event to her father's friend; therefore be silent, as you value your place and ten guineas, and I may be tolerably sure of caution!" "You ought to be chairman to the Ways and Means Committee!" cried Mauleverer.
Did you know that he was arrested the day before yesterday at Plum Beach?" Evidently Holmes had not known it. The news was a fresh shock to him. But he was determined not to admit defeat. "Much good he'll do you!" he said. "He doesn't know anything even if he thinks he does."
But I also very soon found out that in practice the part is one which cannot be played if the performer wants to have a pleasant time in the world, or to make himself generally liked by his fellow-men. A watch-dog is never popular. How could he be? People do not like to be disturbed, and to be warned generally means a loud noise and often a shock to delicate nerves.
For an instant he thought that the shock of his son's death had unsettled the man's mind. "Take an oath! What for?" "'Bout Archie and herself." "But I've taken no oath!" "Well, perhaps it isn't your habit; it ain't some men's. I did." "What about?" It was the captain's turn now to look searchingly into his companion's face.
So many buildings in the territory of the severest shock fell a prey to the flames or to dynamite that the actual work of the earth forces was made difficult and in many places impossible to discover.
"No, but the letter is about him," Featherstone replied, and sitting down opposite, was silent for a few moments. His pose was slack and he looked as if he had got a shock. "I don't see how you can help, but perhaps you had better know how matters are," he resumed and gave the letter to Foster. It was short, but Foster, who was surprised and disturbed, understood his host's alarm.
The good Sister Frances, though she had scarcely recovered from the shock of the preceding night, accompanied Victoire to the Chateau de Fleury. The gates were opened for them by the old steward and his son Basile, who welcomed them with all the eagerness with which people welcome friends in time of adversity.
All was tumult and confusion for a moment; when there was a kind of shout from the spectators, and the mob again opening, she beheld, as she thought, Antonio weltering in his blood. This new shock was too great for her already overstrained intellect. A giddiness seized upon her; every thing seemed to whirl before her eyes; she gasped some incoherent words, and sunk senseless upon the ground.
But at last he ventured with one hand, got a firm grip of a moderate bough, and before he could loosen his grasp with the other he felt a violent shock: it was torn away, and he was swept over the submerged twigs, having hard work to get a fresh hold.
It might be partly owing to this nervous strain that the new shock of rage he felt as Tito's lie fell on his ears brought a strange bodily effect with it: a cold stream seemed to rush over him, and the last words of the speech seemed to be drowned by ringing chimes. Thought gave way to a dizzy horror, as if the earth were slipping away from under him.
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