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"You astound, you overwhelm me," said Sybil, agitated. "You came for another purpose, we were speaking of other feelings; it is the hour of exigency you choose for these strange, these startling words." "I also have my hour of exigency," said Morley, "and its minutes are now numbering. Upon it all depends."
I will proceed. This letter was postmarked Malta, here at Valetta." "But you did not mention " "I knew the steamer would stop a few hours at least, and thought that might be enough in which to learn the truth. Strange things have happened since we landed. I have learned several facts which astound me. "You saw a man come in and draw me aside?
I thought you suffered the company of that empty-headed fop as you suffered your lap-dogs the trivial appendage of a fine lady's state. Had I supposed that there was anything serious in your liking that you could think him worth anger or tears should have ordered your life differently, and he would have had no place in it." "Tyrant! tyrant!" "You astound me, Hyacinth!
But to make a piece of work about three thousand three hundred lashes, what every poor little charity-boy gets every month it is enough to amaze, astonish, astound the compassionate bowels of all who hear it, nay, all who come to hear it in the course of time.
"By far the most important of these sepulchral cities is Warka, where the enormous accumulation of human remains proves that it was a peculiarly sacred spot, and that it was so esteemed for many centuries. It is difficult to convey anything like a correct notion of the piles upon piles of human relics which there utterly astound the beholder.
"You astound me, Appleby. I am astonished." "So was I." "How is such a thing possible? His window is heavily barred." "Bars can be removed." "You must have been mistaken." "Possibly," said Mr. Appleby, a little nettled. Gaping astonishment is always apt to be irritating. "Let's leave it at that, then. Sorry to have disturbed you." "No, sit down, Appleby. Dear me, this is most extraordinary.
The magnitude and diversity of the theme, the cogency of the argument, the sublimity and audacity of the language, arrest our attention and astound our minds.
In my then spent condition the admission, so frankly vouchsafed, left me well-nigh speechless. I could only murmur: "Young ladies, you pain me, you grieve me, you hurt me, you astound me! But you are so young, and I forgive you." I then withdrew to my own apartment and rang for an attendant to bring a basin of hot water in which I might lave my blistered pedal extremities.
My sufferings during these series of afternoon confinements did not come from remorse, but were the result of a vague sense of injury; and their effect was to generate within me a strange motive power, a desire to do something that would astound my father and eventually wring from him the confession that he had misjudged me.
You must consider, too, the plants common to the Azores, Portugal, the West of England, Ireland, and the Western Hebrides. In so doing young naturalists will at least find proofs of a change in the distribution of land and water, which will utterly astound them when they face it for the first time. As for the Northern flora, the question whence it came is puzzling enough.
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