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"And how can I express my gratitude to you?" Lothair replied. "Poh!" said the stranger, "a mere affair of common duty. But what surprises me is how you got your pass-ticket." Lothair told him all. "They manage their affairs in general wonderfully close," said the stranger, "but I have no opinion of them.
But he hated all the rest.... That night we ended the awful ride! The wagons stalled! ... The grayness of dawn the stillness oh, I feel them now! ... That terrible Indian yell rang out. All my life I'll hear it! ... Then Horn dug a hole. He buried his gold.... And he said whoever escaped could have it. He had no hope." "Allie, you're a mine of surprises. Buried gold! What next?"
The horses are taken back to their racks and the men separate, wishing one another the inevitable Mahlzeit. As he walks with me along the quays of the black and muddy Wupper, Krall says: "It is a pity that you did not see Zarif in one of his better moods. He is sometimes more startling than Muhamed and has given me two or three surprises that seem incredible.
Helen came from the cloak room and stopped short at seeing Bruce and Sprudell in conversation. Certainly this was an evening of surprises. "Are you ready, Miss Dunbar?" Sprudell placed loud emphasis upon the name. She nodded. Sprudell, who was walking to meet her, glanced back at Bruce with a smile of malice but it was wasted upon Bruce, who was looking at the girl.
A very handy place for any man to lie in wait for an enemy on the woodman's path; so I stopped, crept off into the undergrowth and reckoned to come up behind the stack, so as if there was to be any surprises, I'd give 'em. But the surprise was mine notwithstanding.
The first surprises were for the Jew, the later surprise for the church; this surprise has been and is for all the world. The Jew has been the running puzzle of history. A strange, elusive, surprising puzzle he has been to historians and all others.
"There is in a country-bred woman's heart a store of surprises, as in some toys." "Dear me!" Dinah went on, "a woman will have spoken to you three times in the course of a winter, and without your knowing it, you will be lodged in her heart. Then comes a picnic, an excursion, what not, and all is said or, if you prefer it, all is done!
And all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened. The English are mentioned in the Bible: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
"Yes; I am thoroughly patrician and aristocratic; if we only had a despotic government, to take away all privileges from plebeians, I should be perfectly happy. My language surprises you, I perceive; but it is quite natural that a descendant of a Scotch Baronet, the Duke of Percy, should have similar feelings." More and more bewildered, Monsieur Bonnet was reduced to a bow.
One day, Caroline, who has arisen at eight o'clock notices, by accident, of course, the maid preparing a bath or a morning dress, a delicious deshabille. Caroline sighs. She lies in ambush like a hunter at the cover; she surprises the young woman, her face actually illuminated with happiness.
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