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He could not tell whether she had listened to what he had tried to lay before her. He did not know that she had gone to hear his master: Florimel had never referred to their visit to Hope chapel. His surprise would have equaled his delight at the news that she had already become as a daughter to the schoolmaster.
However I crossed a small footbridge, and kept walking backwards and forwards, when I observed with surprise by the clear moonlight a tall figure in a grey plaid, such as shepherds wear in the south of Scotland, which, move at what pace I would, kept regularly about four yards before me. 'You saw a Cumberland peasant in his ordinary dress, probably.
It isn't fair to leave her all alone to face the music." Then came the thought of the possible joy she might experience if she could but surprise Phyllis and Marcia with the sale of all their tickets! Still another consideration. Each girl was obliged to sell in a certain territory and she was covering enough ground for the whole troop.
"Oh, Preston! he is a good man he is a servant of God; he will wear a crown of gold in heaven; and you have dared to touch him!" "Why, hoity toity!" said Preston. "What concern of mine is all that! All I know is, that he did not do what I ordered him." "What did you order him?" "I ordered him not to show you the saddle I had got for you, till I was there. I was going to surprise you.
About eight o'clock there was a terrific pull at the door bell then another and still another! Blue Bonnet looked startled. Then she jumped up from her chair. "It's the We Are Sevens," she said. "I know it is! I'll go." She opened the door to admit not only the We Are Sevens, but a number of the We Are Sevens' friends, boys, mostly Alec in the lead. "Oh, it's a party! A surprise party!
As soon as the emperor saw the dish of cucumbers set before him, thinking it was stuffed in the best manner, he reached out his hand and took one; but when he cut it, was in extreme surprise to find it stuffed with pearls. "What novelty is this?" said he "and with what design were these cucumbers stuffed thus with pearls, since pearls are not to be eaten?"
For my own pleasure I have made a study of counterfeiters and their methods. Perhaps it may surprise you to learn that the police of Europe come to Bucharest and consult with me, eh? Thus, if I may also help you, I must retain my bills!"
Kalman had spent an unhappy night, his sleep being broken by the recurring vision of the fierce and bloated face of the man who had cursed him and threatened him on the previous evening. The boy had not yet recovered from the horror and surprise of his discovery that this drunken and brutalized creature was the noble-hearted brother into whose keeping his friend and benefactress had given him.
He had met young Gordon at a dinner, and had had the presumption to ask him to serve as his secretary, and Gordon, much to his surprise, had accepted his offer.
Then he straightened and stole step by step across the floor, to the door, to the night; all the myriad small white eyes of the heavens looked down to him in hushed surprise.
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