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Finally, midway of a winding and shrubby short cut, into which he turned as directed by the porter, he came suddenly upon her. "Miss MacNish ?" he said. "You're not Mr. McTavish! " She seemed dumfounded, and glanced at a letter which she carried open in her hand. "My sister writes " "What does she write?" asked McTavish eagerly. "No no!" Miss MacNish exclaimed hastily, "the letter was to me."
"But, Sahib!" began Ahmed, not comprehending. "And, having him in your hands, you let him go!" Ahmed stood dumfounded. His jaw sagged, his rifle slipped from his hands and fell with a clank at his feet. "You are right, Sahib. I am an unthinking fool. May Allah forgive me!" "We could have held him as hostage, and tomorrow morning we all could have left Allaha free, unhindered!
The mealman's face seemed to petrify, his eyes stood out, the bread he had in his teeth dropped, and he stared wildly at Lajeunesse. All were occupied in watching the mealman, and they did not see the figure of a girl approaching. Muroc, dumfounded, spoke first. "Elise the black fever!" he gasped, thoroughly awed. "She is better, she will live," said a voice behind Lajeunesse.
It made clear much that had not been easy to understand, and the tremendous fact rose in his mind as a link in such a perfect sequence of evidence that doubt actually vanished before he had lost sight of Chris and passed dumfounded upon his way.
They had not gone far when they saw Cumner, the Governor, and six men of the artillery riding towards them. The Governor stopped, and asked him where he was going. The young man told him all. The Colonel turned pale. "You would do this thing!" said he dumfounded. "Suppose this rascal," nodding towards the beggar, "speaks the truth; and suppose that, after all, the sick man should die and "
Then less than a month ago the change came, and one day she told me that she had made up her mind to become Strang's wife. From that day her heart was broken. I was dumfounded. I raged and cursed and even threatened. Once I accused her of a shameful thing and though I implored her forgiveness a thousand times I know that she weeps over my brutal words still. But nothing could change her.
"Come. This is really some fooling." At this juncture Victorin and Lisbeth arrived, and stood dumfounded at the scene. The daughter was prostrate at her father's feet. The Baroness, speechless between her maternal feelings and her conjugal duty, showed a harassed face bathed in tears. "Lisbeth," said the Baron, seizing his cousin by the hand and pointing to Hortense, "you can help me here.
As for my own sentiments, I am, above all, desirous to say to you, that although I admire Madame de Rochefide for her intellect, she is supremely displeasing to me as a woman." "And so end our noblest dreams, our celestial loves!" said Calyste, dumfounded by so many revelations and disillusionments. "Yes, in the serpent's tail," said Maxime, "or, worse still, in the vial of an apothecary.
As he neared the house he felt a little peculiar about coming home so early; then at the sight of the two trunks standing in the middle of the room he stood dumfounded. What did it mean Jennie dressed and ready to depart? And Vesta in a similar condition? He stared in amazement, his brown eyes keen in inquiry. "Where are you going?" he asked. "Why why " she began, falling back. "I was going away."
I was utterly dumfounded but seized his three-barrel gun to unload it for in his excitement there was imminent danger that he would shoot either himself or me. Then I realized what it was all about. We had both fired simultaneously and neither had heard the other's shot.
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