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"'Did you ever reflect, Tom, upon the source of political power? continued the old gentleman, and without waiting for an answer, fortunately, as I was fast becoming dumbfoundered, 'the people, Tom, the people; not you and I, so much as that miner, said he, pointing to a rough ugly-looking fellow that I had kicked out of my wife's bar-room or, rather, got my ostler to do it two nights before, 'That man, Tom, is a representative of thousands; we may represent but ourselves.
Lambert, if you like, but my bar is no station-house or cage; give it to the town crier, said the dame bristling, for she hated the agent, and feared him not. 'Dang my buttons! said a burly farmer, 'Mrs. Ally ha the agent dumbfoundered what be the matter?
Hearing my footsteps he suddenly turned round and squatted on his heels then at once, skipping up to me, began speaking very rapidly in a trembling voice, incessantly repeating, "Tchoo tchoo tchoo!" I was dumbfoundered. I had not seen him for a long time and should not, of course, have known him if I had met him anywhere else.
He told her frankly that if Romanzo Caukins was led astray in the future it would be through her carryings-on; at which Aileen looked so dumbfoundered that Octavius at once perceived his mistake, and retreated weakly from his position by telling her if she wanted to dance like that, she'd better dance before him who understood her and her intentions.
"The Cherokees are on us," I said, and I told them of the army we had followed. "How many?" they asked. "Three hundred for a vanguard, but more follow." One man laughed, as if well pleased. "I'm in the humour for Cherokees just now. There's a score of scalps hanging outside, if you could see them, Mr. Garvald." "What scalps?" I asked, dumbfoundered. "The Rapidan murderers.
But Dudley was, manifestly, confounded and dumbfoundered. He stood for a long time gaping at his father, and stole just one sheepish glance at me; and, with red face and forehead, looked down at his boots, and then again at his father, who remained just in the attitude I have described, and with the same forbidding and dreary intensity in his strange face.
With these words, Mr Tappertit, who seemed to expect no reply, and to hold it as a necessary consequence of his eloquence that his hearer should be utterly stunned, dumbfoundered, and overwhelmed, folded his arms so that the palm of each hand rested on the opposite shoulder, and disappeared after the manner of those mysterious warners of whom he had read in cheap story-books.
He turned round this time to look at the speaker, and confronted a wizen, flaxen-haired, sharp-faced man, dressed in a jaunty shooting-jacket, carrying a riding-cane in his hand, and having a thorough-bred black-and-tan terrier in attendance at his heels. "Excuse me asking the question," said the wizen man; "but I noticed how dumbfoundered you were when you saw the coffin come out.
In absolute silence Lord Lovel and Lady Anna walked back to the inn. He had been dumbfoundered, nearly so by her first abrupt statement, and then altogether by the arguments with which she had defended herself. She had nothing further to say. She had, indeed, said all, and had marvelled at her own eloquence while she was speaking.
"Think of this instance of their equinomical doin's," sez I, "and tremble. And," sez I, still more impressively and eloquently, "what is pumpkins by the side of that?" His head sunk down lower, and lower. He wuz dumbfoundered to think he had been outdone in his most vital parts, his most tightest ways. He felt truly that even if they would listen to his equinomical counsels, they didn't need 'em.
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