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Then, with an oath, he went swiftly to the window which opened to the floor and passed through it into the night. An instant later he was on his horse. A moment of dumb confusion succeeded, then she realized her madness, and the thing as it really was. Running to the window, she leaned out. She called, but only the grey mare's galloping came back to her awe-struck ears.
His cry and the loud report of the explosion raised the alarm, and as the men rushed up and forced open the door of his room, they found him weltering in his blood upon the floor. "I took it for a faery vision Of some bright creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live And play i' the plighted clouds; I was awe-struck, And, as I passed, I worshipped." Comus.
And, in general, so marked were his early peculiarities that people said "he had too much sense to be raised; and, if he was, he would never be of any use as a slave." This impression of personal destiny grew with his growth: he fasted, prayed, preached, read the Bible, heard voices when he walked behind his plough, and communicated his revelations to the awe-struck slaves.
I told him what we were doing, and introduced my young cousin, who was greatly interested and somewhat awe-struck at the extraordinary little personage in the Oriental costume, whose remarkable appearance was causing quite a sensation amongst the bystanders. "Oh, these rugs," he said, looking at them casually.
The old lady threw up her hands, and John Cross, to whom this intelligence was wholly new, inquired with a sort of awe-struck gravity "Can this be true, Alfred Stevens? Is this possible?" "The fact, sir. They go by no other name among themselves; and you may suppose, if they are not ashamed of the name, they are not unwilling to perform the doings of the devil.
The scene was striking. The very footmen the officer's footmen paused, napkin in hand; astonished awe-struck by the service. They stood and stared with vacant eyes, but remained stock still. That over, the dinner went on as usual. People ate and drank with cheerful enjoyment. They all, indeed, felt particularly warm-hearted and comfortable that day.
Still motionless, he listened, awe-struck, to the din of the weird battle with an unseen foe, when the cough of exploding shells in the air grew appreciably louder. Raising a whirlwind of dust, a motor-car swerved dangerously into the square, and with a roar sped up the road, carrying to their aerodrome three British airmen.
I wish to read no more." He flung the baronet's hand away, and once more his eyes glowed like the orbs of a demon. But Sir Jasper Kingsland, pale as a dead man, saw it not. "Are you man or devil?" he said, in an awe-struck tone. "No living mortal knows what you have told me this night." Achmet the Astrologer smiled a dire, dark smile.
The rooms assigned to him lay at the end of one of the wings overlooking the gardens; and as he mounted the great stairway and walked down the corridors with their frescoed walls and busts of Roman emperors he recalled the far-off night when he had passed through the same scenes as a frightened awe-struck child.
Nor could they guess that the final verdict on the great ceremony that rang forth on the awe-struck silence as the chief rose to his feet was: "Well, drop around to my room in the hotel when you want to hear the rest of it. But if you see the sign on my door, Ladies Only To-day, don't knock. The chambermaid may not have finished her official visit."
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