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You've both got it. She's the best girl in the world, and you're " Adoree hesitated, and continued to stare, round-eyed. "I didn't think you'd I didn't think she'd I don't know what I thought or didn't think. But Jimminy! MARRIED!" When Lorelei led her into the bedroom to lay off her wraps the thunderstruck young woman had more nearly recovered herself.
John Gates was thunderstruck. By now he was stranded high and dry above the tide, fitting perfectly his surroundings. Vaguely he had felt that his son would stay with him always. But the wave was again surging upward. Charley had talked with Cathcart. "This is no country to draw a salary in," the latter had told him, "nor to play with farming or cows.
Then I was thunderstruck. In a second a thousand thoughts and suppositions flashed through my mind. Did they expect me to pick out one of the young Chantal ladies? Was that a trick to make me say which one I prefer? Was it a gentle, light, direct hint of the parents toward a possible marriage?
Now one whose intelligence has never been trained, who shells his five wits and gets rid of the pods as best he can, mayn't be so quick as another, but, like an animal, he feels long before he sees; and a vague sense of this had been upon Dan all day. Yet now he stood thunderstruck, and the thing went on before his very eyes.
"Yes, he is already jealous of you," she exclaimed, "he, of you! He demanded that I dismiss you immediately, and when I told him who you were " "You told him " I repeated, thunderstruck. "I told him everything," she replied, "our whole story, all your queerness, everything and he, instead of being amused, grew angry, and stamped his foot." "And threatened to strike you?"
He was thunderstruck at receiving a reply, taking him at his word, and summoning him to the capital to accept employment there under the then existing Government. There was no choice but to obey. So to Paris he journeyed, taking his wife with him into the very jaws of danger.
They were on the lower stairs by this times, and there was silence between then for a few moments as they descended, principally because, after this exalting remark, Austen could not trust himself to speak. "Will you go driving with me?" he asked, and was immediately thunderstruck at his boldness. "Yes," she answered, simply. "How soon may I come?" he demanded,
"Thou wilt know ere many minutes are passed," said the cruel Prince. "Send your chaplain to me, and wait my pleasure here." At these words he flung out of the room in search of Isabella, leaving the amazed ladies thunderstruck with his words and frantic deportment, and lost in vain conjectures on what he was meditating.
I can tell you in one word," she said, trembling with impatience. "My boy is sailing for South Africa to-morrow morning." "I prefer," said Sir Timothy, "to read the letter for myself." "Oh, do be quick!" she said, half under her breath. But he read it slowly twice, and folded it. He was really thunderstruck.
"Oh, yes; you want to know why I bowled you over in that fashion. Because there wasn't time to speak. I was crazy to get the reverse gear at work, and take us out of the path of that torpedo aimed for us." "Torpedo?" demanded Eph Somers, thunderstruck. "Torpedo?" repeated Jacob Farnum, in bewilderment. "Yes," broke in Lieutenant Danvers, stepping forward.
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