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Heale, en revanche dragged out the books, and displayed to the poor widow's horror-struck eyes an account for medicine and attendance, on her and Grace, which nearly swallowed up the debt. Poor Grace was overwhelmed when her mother came home and upbraided her, in her despair, with being a burden. Was she not a burden? Must she not be one henceforth?
Jules, horror-struck, allowed her to go without further notice. The whole world seemed to crumble beneath his feet, and above him the heavens were falling with a crash. "Monsieur is served," said his valet. The valet and the footman waited in the dining-room a quarter of an hour without seeing master or mistress. "Madame will not dine to-day," said the waiting-maid, coming in.
When she came to her senses, she was covered from head to foot with blood, that had flowed from the wound, which was on the scalp, and was four inches in length. In this state she came running to me, and made her way up to the front of the procession: we halted, horror-struck at her appearance.
So she lit one of the copper candelabra on the chimney piece and placed it on the night table beside the corpse. A brilliant light suddenly illumined the dead woman's face. The women were horror-struck. They shuddered and escaped. "Ah, she's changed; she's changed!" murmured Rose Mignon, who was the last to remain. She went away; she shut the door.
The astonished priest held the loveliest maiden in his arms he had ever beheld; but he was horror-struck, and, springing from the horse, he stopped it, expecting to see it also the victim of some fearful sorcery. Young Helga sprang at the same moment to the ground, her short childlike dress reaching no lower than her knees.
I was horror-struck, when I saw that the shepherds themselves were the wolves, and that the flock was plundered by the very men who had the keeping of it. As usual, they made known to their master the mischief done by the wolf, gave him the skin and part of the carcase, and ate the rest, and that the choicest part, themselves. As usual, they had a scolding, and the dogs a beating.
'Then how do you ever keep yourself warm? asked Friskarina, quite horror-struck. 'Please, my lady, I never am warm, said poor Tibb, in a very melancholy voice. Friskarina was ready to cry, 'And you say they never give you any dinner, either? she said. 'Very seldom, indeed, your ladyship.
"But you couldn't. Why, you didn't marry me till eighteen ninety-four." "What's that got to do with it?" inquired the monster, calmly. Mrs. Boxer, pale as ashes, rose from her seat and stood gazing at him with horror-struck eyes, trying in vain to speak. "You villain!" cried Mrs. Gimpson, violently. "I always distrusted you." Gimpson, violently. "I know you did," said Mr. Boxer, calmly.
"Terrible! It is difficult to say whether the cruelty or the absurdity is greater, but the one and the other seem to reach their climax." Nekhludoff thought all this, no longer listening to what was going on, and he was horror-struck by that which was being revealed to him. He could not understand why he had not been able to see all this before, and why others were unable to see it.
And the dead face was like marble; but the wide-open eyes that had never wholly lost their brilliance and the beautiful lungwort blue colour were like living eyes living and gazing through the crystal-clear running water at the group of nuns staring down with horror-struck faces at her.
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