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"It was because you were civil," Celia explained, though her expression suggested that the word did not convey all she meant. "Still, I can't complain of the rest of the boys." "I wonder if you remember how astonished you were the first time you brought me supper?" Celia smiled and Vane turned to the others. "I'd just come in on a schooner.
The ambassadors, who expected to see a brilliant army full of ardour, were astonished to find themselves in the presence of pale and emaciated soldiers, worn out more by sickness and privations of every kind than by fatigue.
Astonished to see this young girl in so perilous a place, the Emperor said to her, smiling, "You would make a brave soldier, Mademoiselle; and if you are willing to wear epaulets you shall be one of my aides-de-camp." The young girl blushed, and made a courtesy to the Emperor, and was going away, when he held out his hand to her, and she kissed it.
The attorney stared at him astonished, and moved by a curious sense of shame. There was something both pathetic and dignified in the aspect of this frail old "working man," who stood before him so respectfully with his venerable white hair uncovered, and his eyes full of an earnest resolution which was not to be gainsaid.
Then his friend felt quite convinced that it was he and went away. He was an enlightened man, who knew men, the world and himself inside out, and therefore he was neither sorry nor astonished. But Mr. Jubal thought he was; he heard a voice within him saying, "Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice," and he did what St. Peter had done, he went away and wept bitterly.
Scudder appeared at the door of the apartment, with traces of tears upon her cheeks. "Good morning, James," she said. "The Doctor wishes to see you and Mary a moment, together." Both looked sufficiently astonished, knowing, from Mrs. Scudder's looks, that something was impending. They followed her, scarcely feeling the ground they trod on.
'If he were all that they have called him, still I would marry him, she said to her other aunt, 'because I love him. And so they all became astonished at the young girl whom they had reared up among them, and to understand that whatever might now be their opinions, she would have her way. And so it was decided that they should be married on a certain Tuesday in the middle of December.
Winters was astonished, and so was the doctor, who patted Frank on the head, and said: "You're a chip of the old block. And did you not tell him where you had put the key?" "No, sir;" was the answer. "He choked me pretty hard, though, and my throat feels funny yet." The boy having finished his story, Mr.
He was very much astonished, and called his wife and said to her, "Tell me, what can have happened? Last night there was a miserable little hut standing there, and to-day there is a beautiful new house. Run over and see how that has come to pass."
Out with it straight, now have you come after me, or have you come after my money?" The major was so astonished at this point-blank question, that for a moment he sat speechless upon the sofa. Being a man of ready resource, however, and one who was accustomed to sudden emergencies, he soon recovered himself. "Yoursilf, of course" cried he. "If you hadn't a stiver I would do the same."
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