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At this moment supper was announced. We all adjourned to another apartment, where to my great surprise I observed the cloth laid, the sideboard loaded, the wines ready, but nothing to eat on the table! A Madame de Savori, who was next me, noted my surprise. "What astonishes you, Monsieur?" "Nothing, Madame," said I; "that is, the absence of all things." "What! you expected to see supper?"
In deep and loose soils they used sometimes, just as we do now, porous clay pipes; but when the subsoil was formed of compact and nearly impermeable matters, they employed a system of drainage, the extent and grandeur of which astonishes us.
"And how did you fare, Souirin?" asked the host. "Oh, I lost, as usual. I must confess that I am unlucky. I play mirandole, I always keep cool, I never allow anything to put me out, and yet I always lose!" "And you did not once allow yourself to be tempted to back the red? Your firmness astonishes me." "But what do you think of Hermann?" said one of the guests, pointing to a young engineer.
But what astonishes me more than anything is the fellow's candid confession of weakness. You'd better get rid of him tomorrow, in any case. "Do you think he will make another attempt?" "Oh no, not he, not now! But you have to be very careful with this sort of gentleman. Crime is too often the last resource of these petty nonentities.
Mumbray glared and breathed hard, her spacious bosom working like a troubled sea. "Your behaviour astonishes me! after what you heard Mr. Vialls say." "Mr. Vialls is an ignorant and foolish man," remarked Serena, without looking up. Then did the mother's rage burst forth without restraint, eloquent, horrisonous. As if to save her ears, Serena went to the piano and began to play.
The man approached. "The king has given me a commission for the lieutenant of the Porte of Agen." "Ah!" "That astonishes you?" "Yes." "It ought not, since you know me." "I know you from having seen you at the palace with the king." Chicot stamped his foot impatiently. "That should prove to you that I possess the king's confidence." "Doubtless; go on, M. Chicot, and execute your commission."
From the species of fascination which you exert, I shrink with unconquerable dread and aversion, and would almost as soon entertain the thought of marrying Lucifer himself. Oh! your perverted nature shocks, repels, astonishes, grieves me. I can neither respect nor trust you. Mr. Murray, have mercy upon yourself! Go yonder to Jesus. He only can save and purify you."
"What astonishes me," rejoined the reporter, "while admitting that our companion has perished, is that Top has also met his death, and that neither the body of the dog nor of his master has been cast on the shore!" "It is not astonishing, with such a heavy sea," replied the sailor. "Besides, it is possible that currents have carried them farther down the coast."
The worship of Odin astonishes us, to fall prostrate before the Great Man, into deliquium of love and wonder over him, and feel in their hearts that he was a denizen of the skies, a god! This was imperfect enough: but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect?
"Captain Harding," said Herbert, "what astonishes me is that the explosion has not produced more effect. The report was not loud, and besides there are so few planks and timbers torn out. It seems as if the ship had rather foundered than blown up." "Does that astonish you, my boy?" asked the engineer. "Yes, captain."
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