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To say that Sir Donald was surprised were mild reference to his amazement. For some moments he sat speechless, then in husky tones said: "Your proposition seems most fair and honorable. I will think it over, and soon return." In leaving, Sir Donald extends his hand. Pierre hesitates, then offers his own.
In two minutes I followed his example, after ascertaining that the unfortunate d'Ache no longer breathed. I was in a state of amazement. Such a duel was more like a combat of romance than a real fact. I could not understand it; I had watched the Swiss, and had not noticed the slightest change pass over his face. I breakfasted with Madame d'Urfe, whom I found inconsolable.
"I don't know that and don't want to," he said, not looking at Pierre and with a slight tremor of his lower jaw, "but you have used such words to me 'mean' and so on which as a man of honor I can't allow anyone to use." Pierre glanced at him with amazement, unable to understand what he wanted. "Though it was tete-a-tete," Anatole continued, "still I can't..."
So great was my astonishment and delight that I must have cried out, for the people in the store all turned and stared at me, and when I snatched the piece of ivory from the work-table, the man looked at me in amazement.
Crozier stared in blank amazement. "You didn't know her name till after you were engaged? What did you call her before that?" "Why, I called her Nurse." answered the fat lover. "We all called her that, and it sounded comfortable and homelike and good for every day. It had a sort of York-shilling confidence, and your life was in her hands a first-class you-and-me kind of feeling."
He perceived, with amazement, that the givers of the entertainment, in their anxiety to set something absolutely new before their imperial guest, had arranged that the first games should take place in the air. A battle was being fought overhead, on a level with the highest places, in a way that must surely be a surprise even to the pampered Romans.
With the growth of political equality the aristocracy had become more insistent upon the privilege of birth, which could not be taken from them; and for a Claudius to descend among the canaille was as if a Howard were to seek adoption from a shopkeeper in the Strand. At first there was universal amazement.
To the amazement of some of the others, Dick Prescott raised the bar and swung the door open. In came a figure that of a boy. His cap was pulled down over his ears, and a big tippet obscured most of his face. But Dick grasped him by the shoulder as the youngster started to enter, followed by a heavy swirl of snow. "What in the world are you doing here, Hen Dutcher?" Dick demanded. "Yes!
I don't go in for any long courtships. What I do in that line will be short and sharp." "How short?" asked Asaph. "Well, this is Thursday," replied the other, "and I calculate to ask her on Monday." Asaph looked at his companion in amazement. "By George!" he exclaimed, "that won't work.
There is no blighting in a worthy, disinterested attachment. To be able to love and respect such a woman is a good substantial quality in you, and ought to make you a higher and better man. Gilbert turned round a face of extreme amazement. 'I thought, he said, 'I thought you and went no farther.
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