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"Where?" said the Vicar. "You don't see a moth on the edge of the table there?" said Hapley. "Certainly not," said the Vicar. Hapley was thunderstruck. He gasped. The Vicar was staring at him. Clearly the man saw nothing. "The eye of faith is no better than the eye of science," said Hapley, awkwardly. "I don't see your point," said the Vicar, thinking it was part of the argument.
To say that the old priest was thunderstruck at these extraordinary revelations would be too little; he was overwhelmed so overwhelmed that for a while he could scarcely speak.
"The old man must have been watching through the crack. Of that I am certain; but it was not for me that he was watching and listening. Horrible! Surely he must have been startled to hear and see somebody he did not expect. He could not possibly guess why I was coming in, but I suppose he must have been concerned." Concerned indeed! He must have been thunderstruck, appalled.
Poor Ben Moïse was thunderstruck, and Hadji Hussein begged him to take the monkey away. Next day Hussein was summoned to the court, the case of Ben Moïse was heard, and the Hadji was ordered to return the child at once.
You may see for yourself." Passepartout scanned the list, but his master's name was not upon it. All at once an idea struck him. "Ah! Am I on the Carnatic?" "Yes." "On the way to Yokohama?" "Certainly." Passepartout had for an instant feared that he was on the wrong boat; but, though he was really on the Carnatic, his master was not there. He fell thunderstruck on a seat. He saw it all now.
But so strange it all seemed, and she felt so shaken up by her ride that she was awkward in handling the child, and as she bent her head over it, it lifted its hand and gave her such a box on the ear that her head rang with it. The old dame cried out and almost let the babe fall, she was so thunderstruck. "What is the matter?" asked the woman from the bed.
I have killed a man; alas, I have carried my revenge too far. Good God, unless thou pity me my life is gone! Cursed, ten thousand times accursed, be the fat and the oil that occasioned me to commit so criminal an action." He stood pale and thunderstruck; he fancied he already saw the officers come to drag him to condign punishment, and could not tell what resolution to take.
You do not know the full extent of my troubles, I think." Victurnien explained the situation. Chesnel was thunderstruck. But for the strength of his devotion, he would have succumbed to this blow. Tears streamed from the eyes that might well have had no tears left to shed.
"Take that card to your mistress," said the Duchess, lowering her voice for the woman's ear; "nobody else is to see it. If you are discreet, child, you shall not lose by it." At the sound of a woman's voice, and the sight of the handsome young man's face, the maid looked thunderstruck.
Joe was here last night. It seems that he's going to that doctor's convention, at Del Monte a week from next Saturday, and he was talking to Georgie about her going, too." Susan was thunderstruck. "But, Auntie, aren't they going to be divorced?" Mrs. Lancaster rubbed her nose violently. "They are if I have anything to say!" she said, angrily.
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