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Updated: May 1, 2025
I know not what it was that made me open my eyes so suddenly, but there flashed through my mind at that moment a notion that we were being watched. It was a strange feeling, and one that occasioned me considerable discomposure, not to say fright, and it seemed to enter my brain with the same ray of sunlight that lifted my eyelids.
Pickle pulled it up by the roots, to the no small discomposure of the owner, who, feeling the smart much more severe than he had expected, started up, and swore he would not part with another hair to save them all from damnation. Mr. Hatchway exhorted him to patience and resignation; Mrs.
They brought the woman and she presented herself without any discomposure, and without manifesting either fear or surprise. "Orderly, tell this woman in Tagalog to sing!" said the alfereza. "She don't understand me; she does not know Spanish." The demented woman understood the orderly and sang the song "Night."
I had never before heard of nor seen the paper, and I read it placidly in the omnibus; looking up, I was at first puzzled and then amused to see an old gentleman gazing at me with indignation and horror printed on his countenance; I realised that my paper had disturbed his peace of mind, and that the sight of a young woman, respectably dressed in crape, reading an Atheistic journal in an omnibus was a shock too great to be endured by the ordinary Philistine without sign of discomposure.
She therefore answered without any discomposure: "You and I are not old enough yet to have lived through very much of these contradictions; and yet when I look back into my own early youth, when I remember the style of complaints which I used then to hear from older people, and when I think at the same time of what the country and the town then were, I have nothing to advance against what you say.
Longmore met her advances with a formal politeness that covered a good deal of unflattering discomposure. She made him feel deeply uncomfortable; and though he was at a loss to conceive how he could be an object of interest to a sharp Parisienne he had an indefinable sense of being enclosed in a magnetic circle, of having become the victim of an incantation.
Beth was firmly naughty in the matter, however, and would not go, greatly to the old lady's discomposure. One means of torture, unconsciously devised by Aunt Victoria, tried Beth extremely. Aunt Victoria used to send her to church alone on Sunday afternoons to hear a certain eloquent preacher, and required her to repeat the text, and tell her what the whole sermon was about on her return.
On the calm face of Ferdinand himself appeared a slight shade of discomposure and irresolution, when the monk thus resumed: "My presence, my son, will not, I trust, disturb your conference with the infidel since you deem that worldly policy demands your parley with the men of Belial."
'It would not be the commonest pleasure to me, if you were absent. 'Till eleven, then! 'After my morning letter to Ned. She sprinkled silvery sound on that name or on the adieu, blushed, blinked, frowned, sweetened her lip-lines, bit at the underone, and passed in a discomposure. 'The lady? Colney asked. 'She is I meet her in the troop conducted by the riding-master: Mrs. Marsett.
My horse, exceedingly surprised, lifted his fore feet in the air on the instant; and otherwise testified to his discomposure; and I had some little difficulty to keep him to the spot and bring him back to quietness. It was vexatious to lose such precious minutes; however, we were composed again by the time the smoke of the guns was clearing away. I could hardly believe my eyes.
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