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Gaston nosed him out shortly after breakfast and began to talk about the beautiful day in a manner so thoroughly respectful that it savoured of servility, he was taken-aback, flabbergasted.
"Oh, I got a distinct promise," said Frank, in his pride; and then added incautiously, "but I had to order bonnets for the whole family." "Hush-h-h-h-h!" said Mr Nearthewinde, absolutely flabbergasted by such imprudence on the part of one of his client's friends. "I am quite sure that your order had no effect, and was intended to have no effect on Mr Bagley's vote."
"What d'you mean, strange way? airplane or submarine?" I growled. "He brought it," Whipple's words marched out of him like a solemn procession, "in a brown, sole-leather suitcase." "With brass trimmings," Dykeman supplemented, and leaned back in his chair with an audible "Ah-h-h!" of satisfaction. If ever a poor devil was flabbergasted, it was the head of the Boyne agency at that moment.
"Not that I know of, sir," said I, flabbergasted by his question. "Why, sir?" "Because the captain left word he wants to speak to you," he replied. "You must go up again on the main-deck to his quarters aft." Thoroughly frightened at this, I proceeded as he had directed me; and, on reaching the door of the captain's cabin, the marine sentry standing outside passed on my name and I was ushered in.
"Look at my face! That's the face of a freethinker, and I don't care who knows it. Now! what have you got to say against my face, `Man-without-a-Shirt?" The brother drew back. He had been known in the northwest in his sinful days as "Man-without-a-Shirt," alias "Shirty," or "The Dirty Man," and was flabbergasted at being recognized in speech.
With another curt salute he wheeled smartly and walked out of the room. Flabbergasted, Professor Sykes could manage no more than a hoarse bubbling sound and he finally turned to Jeff Marshall, waving his arms violently. "Get them out of here get them out of here. Get them out!" The sergeant nodded quickly at Tom and Astro, who, repressing smiles, saluted and followed Roger out of the observatory.
One morning, Willis started as usual in search of a ship, but soon returned to the inn where they had established their head-quarters in a state of bewilderment; he threw himself into a chair, and, before he could utter a word, had to fill his pipe and light it. "Well," said he, "I am completely and totally flabbergasted." "What about?" inquired the two brothers.
She was absolutely flabbergasted, but I had touched her pride. "I apologize if I have seemed rude," she said at last. "I suppose you have the right really only " And her whole slender body quivered with a wave of rebellion. "Let us say no more about the matter, but go into lunch, only you will find that I am not such a weakling, as you no doubt supposed you would have to deal with."
"These flabbergasted fools won't take greenbacks. I offered the woman to-day some, and she said she wouldn't be found dead with 'em. She wanted Confedrit money. You may call it counterfeitin', but the whole Southern Confederacy is counterfeit, from its President down to the lowest Corporil. A dollar or two more or less won't make no difference.
To that I responded by asking him with whom he had communicated before sending for me, and who was the person in the brougham which he had twice entered. That flabbergasted him. He said that he couldn't answer those questions without bringing other parties into the matter, to which I answered that it was just those other parties that I meant to know about, if I were to move a step in the matter.
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