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And pray when did you constitute yourself Hilary's champion?" cried Mr Bertrand, turning round in his seat with a laugh, and an amused expression on his face, which gave place to one of blankest astonishment as he met the flash in his companion's eyes, and heard the firm tone of the answer "How long ago? I don't know! But I am her champion, now and for ever, if she will have me!" "Rayner!
He read it through a second time, then held out the paper to me with an expression of the blankest amazement. The note read: The man Rogers is lying. The woman who was with Holladay wore a gown of dark green. I Have an Inspiration I stared at the lines in dumb bewilderment. "The man Rogers is lying." But what conceivable motive could he have for lying?
One mile upstream was the Viewpoint Inn, to which summer folk from the city came; leaving cool, electric-fanned apartments that they might be driven about in burning sunshine, shrieking, in gasoline launches, by spindle-legged Modreds bearing the blankest of shields. Train your lorgnette upon the hermit and let your eye receive the personal touch that shall endear you to the hero.
But instead of stabbing, he dropped me like a hot coal, gasping in the blankest consternation: "Thousand devils! It's a boy!" A second later, when he recollected himself, I was tearing down the lane. I am a good runner, and then, any one can run well when he runs for his life.
Bashwood the younger started back a step. "After all I have told you?" he asked, in the blankest astonishment. "After all you have told me." "With the chance of being poisoned, the first time you happened to offend her?" "With the chance of being poisoned," answered Mr. Bashwood, "in four-and-twenty hours."
He then jumped on the box, his follower got up behind, and away drove the coach, leaving the discomfited major and his fiery better-half in a state of the blankest bewilderment! "Why, what is the meaning of this?" at length gasped Mrs. Brandon, fiercely addressing the attorney, as if he, were a particeps criminis in the affair.
Wonderful altogether in fact, I find as I write, the quantity, the intensity of picture recoverable from even the blankest and tenderest state of the little canvas.
The king was so delighted with it that he sent the artist an invitation to come to Paris in his employ, promising to pay all his expenses. In the Pitti Palace there is a portrait of Andrea and his wife, in which he has commemorated the reception of this letter. He is looking very interested over it, while his wife has the blankest expression possible.
He had contrived to conjure up an expression which combined the blankest surprise with the keenest disappointment. Helen began to feel still more uncomfortable. "Under the circumstances," she said, "and as you seem rather disappointed, I will pay you the reward just as though the thing had gone on." Mr. Benjamin shook his head slowly.
If I had been asleep, or if the third troika had come immediately after the second, I should have been crushed to death or maimed. It appeared the foremost driver lashed on the horses, while the drivers in the second and the third carts were asleep and did not see us. The collision was followed by the blankest amazement on both sides, then a storm of ferocious abuse.
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