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He said that all they demanded was the Indian who had so treacherously injured the foreman of their gangs. I saw the position at once, and was dumfounded. For a moment I did not speak. I was not prepared for the scene that immediately followed. Some one broke through the crowd at my back, rushed past me, and stood between the two forces. It was the Indian who had injured the foreman.
Though the Baron had been familiar with Imperial luxury, which was undoubtedly prodigious, while its productions, though not durable in kind, had nevertheless cost enormous sums, he stood dazzled, dumfounded, in this drawing-room with three windows looking out on a garden like fairyland, one of those gardens that are created in a month with a made soil and transplanted shrubs, while the grass seems as if it must be made to grow by some chemical process.
But when this "yes" did not appear to be forthcoming, all eyes were suddenly fixed upon Vogt. "No," said he firmly. The president looked amazed. "You cannot have understood me," he said. "I asked you if you were not sorry for your conduct?" But the answer came, clear and decided: "No, I cannot be sorry." Every one present looked dumfounded. Wegstetten thrust his sword angrily against the ground.
"The fellow in the long ulster and silk hat I claim as my especial property. Don't look so dumfounded, goosie; I mean he's my beau. We always manage to get into the same company, and it would be war to the knife with any girl who attempted to flirt with him." "You need not be afraid of my ever attempting to flirt with him," said Jessie gravely.
"Why bait the man with silly questions, Rebecca," Phoebe broke in. "A truce to this silly talk of apothecaries. I have no need of surgeons, I. My good fellow," she continued, addressing Jock with an air of condescension that dumfounded her sister, "is not yonder the Southwark pillory?" "Ay, mistress," he replied, with a grin. "It's there you may see the selectman your serving-maid inquired for."
Tell me at once what happened." "I didn't shoot him, father. You know I didn't!" reiterated Jim, more and more dumfounded. "I don't know how it happened, honest Injun I don't, father!" Mr. Edwards's mouth shut tight. He swept the room with his eyes until they rested upon the gun in the rack over the mantelpiece. He stepped forward, took it down, and examined it.
Their eyes, playing here and there among the central figures, always returned to Jacob Welse. St. Vincent sat as one dumfounded. Frona thrust a revolver into his hand, but his limp fingers refused to close on it. "Come, Gregory," she entreated. "Quick! Corliss is waiting with the canoe. Come!" She shook him, and he managed to grip the weapon.
No one answered him, they sat staring at him with their pale faces. He cried again: "Well?" And then, by the light of the smoky lamp, he saw Marija who sat nearest him, shaking her head slowly. "Not yet," she said. And Jurgis gave a cry of dismay. "Not yet?" Again Marija's head shook. The poor fellow stood dumfounded. "I don't hear her," he gasped.
'You have given me a good time, cousin Emma, he said to her, with a bright friendliness which dumfounded her.
If you could have seen your own face as you peeked through those glasses " Peggy stuffed the binoculars into her brother's brown hands. "Here, look for yourself," she ordered. Her voice was so imperious that Roy obeyed immediately. An instant later his sister's expression of dumfounded amazement was mirrored on his own straightforward, good-looking countenance.
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