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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Oh! was it she that you saw yesterday?" he cried out in French when the girl had passed. "Then I comprehend your dumbfoundedness." "Do you know her?" I asked. "Certainly, she is one of the sights of the town. All the strangers know her." "Is this her home?" "Of course! and not to the loss of the hotel-keeper. She's his daughter or his adopted daughter.
But now, because of something in the stricken face and starting eyes of the woman, and the open-mouthed dumbfoundedness of the old man, and the sudden tender fearfulness in the face of the girl; and because, in that moment, all these seemed very safe, and accustomed, and, somehow, dear, Buzz curled his mouth into the sneer of the tough guy and spoke out of the corner of that contorted feature.
In silence, Tooly mounted his horse, and with his fellows rode away, leaving the party of emigrants most of them terror-stricken, some angry standing dumb, looking at one another, and at the retreating three until they went out of sight, in the dusk of the desert night-fall: stood there on the sage-brush sward, a tableau of silent dumbfoundedness; for how long none knew; each waiting for something to break the spell.
A highly overwrought figure of speech on the part of Mrs. Worthington, seeing that the feather which would have prostrated her must have met a resistance of some one hundred and seventy-five pounds of solid avoirdupois. “After all she said about him, too!” seeking to draw her friend into some participation in her own dumbfoundedness. “Well, you ought to know Fanny Larimore’s a fool, don’t you?”
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