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Tilney!" she exclaimed in a voice of more than common astonishment. He looked astonished too. "Good God!" she continued, not attending to his address. "How came you here? How came you up that staircase?" "How came I up that staircase!" he replied, greatly surprised. "Because it is my nearest way from the stable-yard to my own chamber; and why should I not come up it?"

Her mother lent us her house one afternoon, in order that we might speak more at length and more at our ease there to Madame de Lesdiguieres than we could at the Hotel de Duras. We only gained a torrent of tears for our pains. A few days after this, I was very much astonished to hear Chamillart relate to me all that had passed at this interview.

He had been at Casalunga about two hours, and did not seem as yet to have done any good. He had been astonished both by Trevelyan's weakness, and by his strength; by his folly, and by his sharpness. Hitherto he could see no way for his future sister-in-law out of her troubles. When he was with her at Siena, he described what had taken place with all the accuracy in his power.

More than once the girls heard something they decided ought to be their "Coo-ee" call, but each time it turned out to be nothing more friendly than the astonished birds, either laughing at the scouts, or rooting for their successful escape from the pursuer.

A babble of strange sounds and a jargon of languages salute the astonished boy's ears.

Blair tried to speak, cleared his throat, and blurted out four husky words: "Don't like it here." "Don't like what? Your home?" Blair nodded. "Why not?" she asked, astonished. "Ugly," Blair said, faintly. "Ugly! What is ugly?" Blair, without looking up, made a little, swift gesture with his hand.

During an assembly of the people at Ephesus, a great flight of birds approached from a neighbouring wood; one bird led all the rest. "There is nothing wonderful," says Thyanaeus, to the astonished people, "in this appearance.

Here was thrust upon Bernard, over again, the question of the introduction of the troops. The Governor was as much embarrassed by the requisition for an answer in writing as to the two regiments that were not ordered off as he was astonished at the order that had been given; and on getting a note from General Mackay, he gave the verbal answer, that he would write to General Gage.

Not long after he had joined them, the four sallied out together, and Meg remarked that something very bad was going to happen, for the lord never passed her before without a kind word or a nod; and now he took no more notice of her than if it had been only Sally herself that met him on the stairs. Poor Martin was dreadfully shocked; and not only shocked, but grieved and astonished.

Poor Rachel, if we had been able to marry five years ago we should never have heard of this society craze. Well, it's all over now." And Mr. Tristram henceforward took the position of a man suffering from an indelible attachment to a woman who had thrown him over for a title. The Gresleys were astonished at the engagement. It was so extraordinary that they should know both persons.