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Stephen turned towards her and looked at her with a sudden horror in his eyes. The girl looked back at him quite undisconcerted and unmoved. She saw nothing in what she had said. To her, conscience was a tiresome possession, that might, she knew, trouble you suddenly at any time, and if any one could succeed in making you forget you had one, he was surely entitled to your gratitude.
She merely held her peace, and tried to appear wholly undisconcerted. The chief beckoned them down from the platform with a wave of his hand. They rose and followed him. As they rose the people around them bowed low to the ground. Felix could see they were bowing to Muriel and himself, not merely to the chief. A doubt flitted strangely across his mind for a moment. What could it all mean?
"Just so, cyneec," repeated the undisconcerted Mikhalevich. Even when he had taken his seat in the tarantass, in which his flat and marvellously light portmanteau had been stowed away, he still went on talking.
"I said Grahame, sir, not Grime," said Nigel, something shortly, and laying an emphasis on the vowel for few Scotsmen understand raillery upon the subject of their names. "I beg pardon, my lord," answered the undisconcerted punster; "but Graam will suit the circumstance, too it signifies tribulation in the High Dutch, and your lordship must be considered as a man under trouble."
Don't I wish I had the spanking of him! But I guess it would lame my arm." "Not about Charlie. I asked would you marry me, and you said you would not. Will you to-day?" "Not for a farm!" she answered, with emphasis equal to her precipitation. "Why not?" he asked, undisconcerted. "Because." "Come, let us reason together, Aurora."
"If Parrish used a silencer," remarked Robin, quite undisconcerted by the other's lack of enthusiasm, "and my theory that two shots were fired is correct, there must have been two reports, a loud one and a muffled one. Miss Trevert heard one report, as we know. Did she hear a second?" "She said nothing about it," remarked the detective. "She was probably asked nothing about it.
Should the enemy be undisconcerted by the cloud of arrows, and advance, the bowmen are instructed to make a last endeavour to frighten them back by uttering loud shouts and feigning the voices of savage beasts of the forest and deadly snakes." "And beyond that?" inquired Ling. "Beyond that there are no instructions," replied the Chief.
Reggie maintained an instant's quite undisconcerted silence; then, "You see, she says it too," he said. "She?" "Bessie." "Day's daughter? She must be stopped saying it." "Oh, I don't know. Girls do say that sort of thing." "I think not. Unless they are privileged to say it. Miss Day, you say, has nothing to go upon?" "Oh, well, you know!"
Apparently undisconcerted by the misadventure, he shook himself and laughed a sober, contented laugh, found a handkerchief and mopped his face with it, then, with a final approving survey of the lowering and belligerent canopy of wind-cloud that overhung the tortured ocean, permitted himself to be blown aft to the door of the first-cabin smoking-room. Opening this by main strength, he entered.
Here Aunt Mary's thoughts and words began to fail her, for she felt she was not getting back to the point where she had entered on her various digressions, and without further ado, and quite undisconcerted, she said, "But I forget where I was; what were we talking about?" "We were talking about dear Sally and Maggie, and the need they stand of counsel and help.
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