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Paris is tranquil, and every one is astounded at an event which promised to be awful, but which has passed over like a fete. The stout patriots of the faubourgs proclaim the safety of the Republic, and the black collars are put down. It now remains for the wise energy of the Directory and the patriots of the two councils to do the rest.
When he arrives at the hotel, although it is early breakfast-time, he is astounded at the number of people there, and he is inclined to think that he has happened upon an unusual week or that this is the one place in the South where golfers congregate.
"All these years you have been my pupil, and have become necessary to me and to my Art. To part with you is impossible; it would disorganise all my plans and hopes. There is but one way to prevent this. You are a woman; I cannot take you for my son, but I can take you for my wife." Utterly astounded, Olive heard. "Your wife I your wife!" was all she murmured. "Yes.
One moment of astounded doubt, then they "fell in" as front-rank men, evidently infinitely flattered and marvelously quick in adapting the manual exercise they had often witnessed.
The voyage was rough and the little Java justified her reputation by jumping all over the ocean. "At the table," says Edison, "there were never more than ten or twelve people. I wondered at the time how it could pay to run an ocean steamer with so few people; but when we got into calm water and could see the green fields, I was astounded to see the number of people who appeared.
Watching each motion like a hawk, I saw Tom dip over the crest, and worm his way down behind the rock. Then he disappeared, until, as he cautiously arose to his feet, his head and shoulders emerged shadowy just beyond. Realizing he was ready, I got to my knees, gripping a pistol butt. Without a warning sound the Dragoon leaped, his arms gripping the astounded sentinel with the hug of a bear.
'Build a house? exclaimed John. 'For the Wendy, said Curly. 'For Wendy? John said, aghast. 'Why, she is only a girl. 'That, explained Curly, 'is why we are her servants. 'You? Wendy's servants! 'Yes, said Peter, 'and you also. Away with them. The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry. 'Chairs and a fender first, Peter ordered.
The deuce! let us not trifle with love." Pécuchet, ashamed, again put on his cap, a sort of head-piece that swelled over a peak shaped like a half-moon, the model of which he had taken from the Atlas of Amoros. The doctor's words astounded him. He kept thinking of them with his eyes staring before him, and suddenly had another seizure.
"You think your mother wrote it?" I asked, astounded. "Yes.... She wrote the others." "Well?" "This writing is the same." "The same hand that wrote the other messages throughout the years?" "The same." "Have you told the Sagamore of this?" "I told him but now and for the first time." "You told him everything?"
He declared to the astounded progressives around him that physical science was a mystical fake like sacerdotalism; that scientists, like priests, spoke with authority because they could not speak with proof or reason; that the very wonders of science were mostly lies, like the wonders of religion.
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