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"You are an incorrigible, hopeless Don Quixote. That's what you are." I was surprised. I was only fifteen and did not know what he meant exactly. But I felt vaguely flattered at the name of the immortal knight turning up in connection with my own folly, as some people would call it to my face. Alas! I don't think there was anything to be proud of.
The reaction she experienced after having successfully met and become acquainted with Aunt Lucretia put Sheila in high spirits. Tunis had never seen her in quite this mood. Although she was always cheerful and not a little gay about the Ball homestead, she suddenly achieved a spirit of sportiveness which surprised the captain of the Seamew. But he wholly liked and approved of this new mood.
"There: make yourself comfortable and here are the cigars you like." He placed them at my elbow and continued to wander up and down the room, stopping now and then beneath the picture. "How it happened? I can tell you in five minutes and it didn't take much longer to happen.... I can remember now how surprised and pleased I was when I got Mrs. Stroud's note.
"Well," Harry exclaimed in astonishment, "only to think!" "It be nat'ral enough," Jack said, "and I bain't surprised one bit. I orter ha' known better. I had only to ha' joodged her by myself and I should ha' seen it.
It would not have surprised me more, it would have been natural almost had I felt a touch upon my hands and lips, or caught the murmur of spoken words against my ear. Yet from such direct revelation I shrank involuntarily and by instinct. I could not have borne it then.
In German camps it is forbidden to sit or lie on one's bed during the day, unless one has reported sick at roll call. This captain suddenly entered a room in our barrack and surprised a Scotsman lying on his bed reading a book.
Once there had seemed the beginning of a chance. The richest banker in Octavius a fat, sensual, hog-faced old bachelor surprised everybody one evening by entering the church and taking a seat.
Take mine, give up thine, and that without regret or turning back. Or else better have nothing. 'Well? observed Bazarov; 'that's fair terms, and I'm surprised that so far you ... have not found what you wanted. 'And do you think it would be easy to give oneself up wholly to anything whatever?
"So did I," he replied bitterly; "but somehow, I think that we don't quite understand each other." She looked up, as if surprised. "In what way?" Looking steadily at her, he went on: "That letter I dictated to you the day that you came back to me and left for you to mail did you mail it?" For a sixteenth of a second she hesitated. Should she go on lying, or stop right now and confess everything?
Your mother wrote to ask them if they would send me a card." "Oh!" Captain Fanshawe was certainly surprised, and Claire mentally snubbed herself because at the bottom of her heart there had lain a suspicion that perhaps just perhaps he had come to-night in the hope of meeting his acquaintance of the railway station. This was not the case; no thought of her had been in his mind.
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