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Major Favraud stood for a moment spell-bound then suddenly rushing forward, flung his hat to the floor, caught the hand of the stranger between his own and pressed it to his heart. Calhoun! best of friends, welcome back to Georgia!" And tears started to his eyes and choked his utterance. Thus was my conjecture confirmed. I never felt so thrilled, so elated, by any presence.
Thus she entered; and now she stood spell-bound, terror-stricken, pale as death life turned to stone youth hope bliss were for ever over to her! Ernest kneeling to another was all she saw! For this had she been faithful and true amidst storm and desolation; for this had she hoped dreamed lived. They did not note her; she was unseen unheard.
The mountains stood in solemn grandeur, domes of white mystery. The great vault of the sky was alight with stars, and a wonderful moon hung like a silver shield almost in the zenith. "How beautiful!" breathed Dinah. The air was crystal clear, cold but not piercing. The absolute stillness held her spell-bound. "It is like a dream-world," she whispered.
He fell into many more such passionate and incoherent expressions of rhapsody, as of one suddenly smitten and spell-bound with hapless love, bitterly reproaching the ambassador for never having brought him any answers to the many affectionate letters which he had written to the queen, whose silence had made him so wretched.
For a moment, I stood spell-bound, staring down at that jaded and passion-stained countenance; then Godfrey sprang forward and lifted the unconscious woman to the couch. "Bring some water," he said, and as he turned and looked at me, I saw that his face was glowing with excitement. I rushed to the door and snatched it open.
A soft, almost imperceptible haze concealed the line of the far horizon, and blended sky and water into one great hollow sphere of twinkling stars. Earth and sea seemed to have passed away, and our motionless ship floated, spell-bound, in vacancy the only earthly object in an encircling universe of stars and planets.
For a moment we waited, spell-bound in the brilliant sunshine; then the dogs running down to the water's edge, the gallahs and cockatoos rose with gorgeous sunrise effect: a floating gray-and-pink cloud, backed by sunlit flashing white.
Both were exquisitely nymphlike, fair and large eyed and both had the fine light hair which is capable of forming itself into a halo. The Duchess stood and looked at them for the moment spell-bound. She slightly caught her breath. She was borne back so swiftly and so far. Her errand in the next door shop was forgotten. She went into the one which displayed the photographs.
She watched him, fascinated, spell-bound. "Dear heart, Nature will not repulse us," Paul continued. "She will gather us to her great, warm, peaceful heart, beloved!" Opal held him close to her breast, almost maternally, with a great longing to soothe and calm his troubled spirit.
The two brothers stood there before them, the one calm and self-possessed, the other infuriated with excitement; but the wonderful resemblance between them held the servants spell-bound. As soon as he could make himself heard Reginald spoke. "You will do nothing of the kind. Most of you are new faces, but some of you remember me.
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