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"You will be very sorry for this," he said stubbornly. He was too dumfounded to be discreet, too suddenly embarrassed by the turn affairs had taken. He realised too late that he had made a mistake, that he had lost his hold upon her. As she passed through, there suddenly flashed before her mind the scene in the laboratory with the chairmaker. She felt the meaning of it now.
These, with his tufted nose and his tragic attitude, gave him an appearance so grotesque and hideous that Zoë, after springing to her feet and throwing her arms wildly aloft, fell in a dead faint into Sampey's arms. Bat gloated over his rival; Castellani was dumfounded. Presently Sampey's nerve returned with his wits.
But the most unaccountable thing about it was that the bad boys in the boat had a good time all day, and then reached home alive and well in the most surprising manner. Jacob Blivens said there was nothing like these things in the books. He was perfectly dumfounded. When he got well he was a little discouraged, but he resolved to keep on trying anyhow.
These brave men, employed be th' taxpayer iv America to defind th' hearths iv th' tax-dodger iv America, supposed be all iv us to have consicrated their lives to upholdin' th' flag, were at heart votaries, as Hogan says, iv Aloes, gawd iv beer. "F'r a moment th' ladies shtud dumfounded. But they did not remain long in this unladylike attichood.
She took it, unfastened it, and remained dumfounded with astonishment and rage; in the middle of the silk there was a hole as big as a six-penny-piece; it had been made with the end of a cigar. "What is that?" she screamed. Her husband replied quietly, without looking at it: "What is it? What do you mean?" She was choking with rage, and could hardly get out a word.
Indeed, when he came to notice it, he was dumfounded by the mirth. "By Jove! you Americans are an extraordinary people," he said. "I don't see anything blooming funny in Mr. Price's story of his adventure. By Jove! that was a bally warm occasion. Mr. Price, when you speak of being frightened for the only time in your life, I appreciate what you mean. I have experienced that.
"Oh, mother dear, there's no use of your trying to make a prim Puritan maiden of me. Zeb doesn't fight like a deacon, and I can't love like one. Ha! ha! ha! to think that great soldier is afraid of little me, and nothing else! It's too funny and heavenly " "Susan, I am dumfounded at your behavior!" At this moment Mr. Rolliffe came in from the wood-lot, and he was dazed by the wonderful news also.
Lily was too dumfounded to speak, but her thoughts raced. "For the land's sake!" she said under her breath. She was sitting down now, but her hands in her lap had doubled into rosy fighting fists. Her silence terrified Eleanor. "If you'll give him to me," she said, "I will do anything for you anything! If you'll just let Mr. Curtis have him."
When he can squeeze the Khedive into a corner he'll be free, but it takes time. We have to go carefully, for it isn't the slave-master alone, it's those twenty slaves of his, including the six you freed. Their heads are worth a good deal to the Khedive, he thinks." She was dumfounded. "I don't understand," she said helplessly.
"Well, I sold it for twenty thousand francs. I am willing to take it back for eighteen thousand, when you inform me, according to our legal formality, how it came to be in your possession." This time, Monsieur Lantin was dumfounded. He replied: "But but examine it well. Until this moment I was under the impression that it was imitation." The jeweler asked: "What is your name, sir?"
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