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She squeezed the astonished Merry's hand, convulsively, and shot off, leaving the bewildered lady quite speechless, so speechless that, when she reached the stately presence of Aunt Pliny, she forgot the commissions she had been sent to execute, and was at once reviled by the parrot as "a no-account dawdler."
When the boy, as sometimes happened, was worn down by sickness and fatigue, the monarch attended him with parental care; and when on one occasion he fell speechless from his horse, and his recovery was despaired of, the king never left his couch till he was pronounced out of danger. The adventures they encountered together were endless.
"I have brought you something to eat, M'sieu David," broke in a soft voice behind him. Nepapinas slipped away, and Jeanne Marie-Anne stood in his place. David stared up at her, speechless. He heard the door close behind the old Indian. Then Jeanne Marie-Anne drew up a chair, so that for the first time he could see her clear eyes with the light of day full upon her.
The young fellow stood speechless with wonder as she came on, picking her way daintily among the beds and rows, her skirts held carefully, her beautiful figure expressing health and strength and joyous, tingling life in every womanly curve and line.
Smitten to the heart by a sudden and overwhelming remorse, Hetty was speechless. She could only look pleadingly into his face, and murmur: "Oh, Eben! Eben!" He repeated his questions, growing calmer with each word, and with each moment's increasing realization of Hetty's presence. "Who took you away?" "Nobody," answered Hetty. "I came alone." "Did you not love me, Hetty?" said Dr.
"Five hundred." "All right; keep the five hundred, and here are a thousand to free you from embarrassment," said Barnwell, counting out the bills. The old landlord was so overcome that he fell upon his knees speechless, seeing which, his wife ran to him, thinking him ill. "Oh, Gretchen! Look at him; the good American gentleman has saved us and our home!" "Oh, sir, what induced you?"
In the earlier years, which Paul could well remember, before the gray little man had achieved his triumph of speechless mastery, there had been scenes which bordered on the terrible. 'And now, said Mrs. Armstrong, 'what's our Paul to go to London for? 'He'll finish learning his business there, said Armstrong.
He tore open his shirt, that he might have air, his dull gaze uplifting piteously from the face of the dead to the place where she stood, her hands pressed against her head, her great eyes staring at him as though she confronted a ghost. Her very posture shocked him, it was so filled with speechless horror, so wild with undisguised terror.
Virginia's mood was not one to promote presence of mind. She was speechless; but Roger stepped in to the breach. "We were talking of a swim that George and I propose to have in these pleasant waters," he remarked. "There are supposed to be a good many sharks about, and Virginia is advising prudence." "Oh!" breathed Lady Gardiner. "She is quite right. We will all join our persuasions to hers.
He stared at her speechless, and she found it bad to see the surprise and almost uncomprehending pain which came into his face, as into the face of a child unjustly smitten. But she went on resolutely: "I heard of it in England, that it was worth a lot of money and I wanted money so I came here; I meant to get a bulb and sell it." "You meant to?" he said slowly; "but you haven't you couldn't?"
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