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He seemed master of a situation in which his terms must be accepted. Yet he might have been actuated by a cowboy motive beyond the power of Helen to divine. "Bo Rayner," drawled Las Vegas, "thet blue mustang will be yours, an' you can ride him when you're MRS. TOM CARMICHAEL!" Never had he spoken a softer, more drawling speech, nor gazed at Bo more mildly. Roy seemed thunderstruck.
Then in her despair she rebelled, and flinging him against the wall with a furious gesture, she sat up, and in an altered voice she hissed: "I have had a child, I have had one! I had it by Jacques; you know Jacques. He promised to marry me, but he left this neighborhood without keeping his word." The man was thunderstruck and could hardly speak, but at last he stammered out: "What are you saying?
I could feel her heart beating even faster than mine. "Burglar?" I repeated. "Indeed, no, sir," reproachfully. "Mine is a political job." "A political job?" thunderstruck. "Yes, sir; I am an inspector of cellars," grimly. "I couldn't get around to this here cellar earlier in the day, sir, and a fellow's work must be done." Here was a burglar with the sense of humor. "What can I do for you?"
How or in what terms he had done so, Wilton was somewhat anxious to ascertain, but he was so completely thunderstruck and surprised by his pre sent reception, that he could scarcely play the difficult game in which he was engaged with anything like calmness or forethought.
We were walking towards the carriage when all at once we saw St. Germain, but as soon as he noticed us he turned back and we lost sight of him. "Did you see him?" said I. "He is working against us, but our genie makes him tremble." "I am quite thunderstruck. I will go and impart this piece of news to the Duc de Choiseul to-morrow morning. I am curious to hear what he will say when I tell him."
Three regiments, to whom vodka had judiciously been dispensed beforehand, took the oath of allegiance with enthusiasm; and others followed suit. Peter was thunderstruck. On the advice of Marshal Muennich he embarked for Cronstadt, where he was challenged, and demanded admittance as emperor. "Il n'y a plus d'empéreur!" replied the commandant, Talitsine.
He had scarcely spoken, when Susan burst into the room again, crying, "Jacob, they are coming, they have come!" "Who?" "Father and mother; and we didn't expect them, you know, for a week yet." All three went to the door as the visitors made their appearance on the veranda. Two of the party stood as if thunderstruck, and two exclamations came together: "Samuel Flint!" "Lucy Wheeler!"
As his form darkened the doorway Jean once again gathered all his muscular force for a tremendous spring. Springer saw the girl first and he appeared thunderstruck. His jaw dropped. He needed not the white gleam of her person to transfix him. Her eyes did that and they were riveted in unutterable horror upon something on the ground. Thus instinctively directed, Springer espied Colter.
"They seemed thunderstruck, and Mr. Lynx very politely thanked me for the help I had given them." "Has Ben been bounced yet?" "No; but doubtless he will be very soon. Cousin Hamilton doesn't want to think him a thief and gambler, but there seems no way of escaping from such a mass of proof." "I should say not. Do you think she's told Ben? Does he look down in the mouth?" continued Conrad.
We stood amazed, thunderstruck, at the presence of such a herd of marine monsters. They were of supernatural dimensions; the smallest of them would have crunched our raft, crew and all, at one snap of its huge jaws.
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