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Such a transformation stupefied the Ogress, who kept her staring eyes obstinately fixed on her former victim. Fleur-de-Marie, pale and alarmed, seemed fascinated by this look. The death of the Slasher, the unexpected appearance of the Ogress, who had just awakened more grievously than ever the remembrance of her former degradation, seemed to her of mournful presage.
While the doctor stopped, half stupefied, the four men entered the mayor's house and the door closed behind them. "We are forestalled," murmured the doctor; "it will be necessary now to wait for re-enforcements; nothing can be done for a quarter of an hour."
In thinking of all these acts of thine, O perpetuator of Bhrigu's race, I became stupefied repeatedly. I fail to find what the certain motive was which influenced thee! O thou, that art endued with wealth of penances, I wish to hear the truth about all those acts of thine in detail.
From his pocket he took a card and laid it on the desk. Bleak seized it. 1316 Caraway Street Virgil Quimbleton, Associate Director He stared at the pasteboard, stupefied, and handed it to the city editor. Meanwhile the three reporters had drawn near.
"I do not like to tell you, and yet I must. I am in absolute want of five thousand francs." "What, you?" "Yes, I, or rather my husband, who has asked me to procure the money for him." I was so stupefied that I stammered out my answers. I asked myself whether she had not really been making fun of me with Doctor Parent, if it were not merely a very well-acted farce which had been got up beforehand.
I felt stupefied in presence of the great mystery of childbirth. My wife was there, fainting, overcame, and the little living creature, my own flesh, my own blood, was squalling and gesticulating in the hands of Jacques. I was overwhelmed, like a workman who had unconsciously produced a masterpiece.
My man of business will attend to any directions you think proper to give, and has my express injunctions to further your convenience in every way, but to withhold my address and all information respecting my movements. With a sincere wish for your welfare, I remain," Yours, etc., "Bearwarden." She was stunned, stupefied, bewildered. What had he found out? What could it mean?
"So," said Minard, stupefied by Thuillier's attitude, "the article was not agreed upon between you?" "The wretch has profited by my absence to slip it into the paper; I understand now why he prevented a copy from reaching me to-day." "My dear friend," said Minard, "what you tell me will seem incredible to the public." "I tell you it is treachery; it is an abominable trap.
I will finish it this evening if I can succeed in diverting myself, for a moment, from this despair which possesses me. Roger, something incredible has happened, overturning every calculation, every prevision. I am stupefied, benumbed I was at the Marquise's, where it was darker than usual. One solitary lamp flickered in a corner, dozing under a huge shade.
The street was filled with engines, hose, all manner of ruined household effects, firemen shouting, the tenement people huddling this way and that, barefooted, nearly or quite naked, silent, stupefied. Nobody had saved anything worth while. The entire block was ablaze, was burning as if it had been saturated with coal oil. "The owner's done this," said old Tom. "I heard he was in trouble.
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