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"The effect was instantaneous and tremendous, and from all the assembled multitude went up the loud acclaim 'Jai, jai, jai! There seemed to be not a dissentient in the throng. And a moment later the young prince was standing on the dais by his mother's side, one hand resting proudly on her shoulder. "Among the nobles there had hitherto been the silence of stupefaction.
"Oh, Emily I heartily wish that, having finished my embassage by that instantaneous finding of the old Scotch nurse, I had never been so superfluous as to have left those letters of introduction, wherewith you kindly supplied me, in an innocent wish to help our cause.
His gaze burned upon her face and played around her form like lightning. He grudged the instantaneous muscles of the eye the time they took to make the circuit of her figure. But when, as on that other night, she came close up to him and smiled upon him, time and circumstance were instantly forgotten, and he fell into a state of enchantment in which will and thought were inert.
His bravery had already given him renown, and it was certain that under the circumstances he would fight with the utmost desperation. Kit Carson, on the other hand, was slender and almost boyish in stature. In a conflict with the burly savage it would be a David meeting a Goliath. It was a peculiarity of Mr. Carson's mind, that his decisions were instantaneous.
His face was clean-shaven, rosy, and of cherubic fulness; his eyes beamed owlishly through spectacles which nobody had ever seen him take off. But for those spectacles he might have passed for a well-groomed baby in a soap-advertisement. He was supposed to sleep in them. It looked as if Mr. Keith had taken an instantaneous liking to the bishop. "Bampopo? Why, of course. I've been there.
Soon after my arrival at his house I became afraid of Cousin Charles. Not that he ever said anything to justify fear of him he was more silent at home than elsewhere; but he was imperious, fastidious, and sarcastic with me by a look, a gesture, an inflection of his voice. My perception of any defect in myself was instantaneous with his discovery of it.
Soon, however, a remark of their grandmother's caused their buoyant spirits to realize that there was a force of gravitation for all here below. "I don't know but you children will have to wait," said she. There was an instantaneous wail of dismay, the pinky faces elongated, the blue eyes scowled sulkily. "Oh, gramma, we don't want to wait! Can't we sit down with the others? Say, gramma, can't we?
In an instant her manner was official; rapping the table with her mailing-stamp, she announced: "Boys, this post-office closes in ten minutes, if you want to buy any stamps." The silence following this statement on the part of the postmistress was instantaneous. Henry took his mirth-provoking package and went his way; some of the more hilariously inclined followed him.
Merle, following some wise advice administered by Mavis, had allowed the other three to have first innings, but as none seemed capable of controlling the meeting she now stepped to the front and, making a megaphone of a roll of foolscap, yelled, "Order!" with all the force of her lungs. The effect was instantaneous. There was an immediate dead hush, and all eyes were turned in her direction.
In each of them there is a characteristic point at which the whole feeling seems contained in one single moment. Thus there is a certain four o'clock in the morning in the confused roar of a black and white world when coming on deck to take charge of my watch I received the instantaneous impression that the ship could not live for another hour in such a raging sea.
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