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If the paper itself were put in and read to the jury without explanation they would be bored. One witness is to tell this part of the story, another that, and the missing link of the chain may be supplied by the deed. The jury are not to be mystified before their interest is aroused. Are not the lives, property, or reputations of particular men at stake?
Their tradesmen papas were sometimes ready to deal on favourable terms with Miss Frederick for the supply of her establishment; in which case the young ladies concerned evidently felt themselves very much at home, and occasionally gave themselves airs which alternately mystified and enraged a little spitfire outsider like Marcella Boyce.
Harleston; though I confess that you have me mystified as to your game in pretending what you and I know is pretence." "You're pleased to be enigmatic!" Harleston laughed. "Oh, no I'm not," she smiled, flashing her rings and watching the flashes and him. "You saw me, and you know that I saw you; and I saw you and know that you saw me.
It was this same professional, a cool and starchy vision, who led the way up the wide stairs of the Chickasaw Drive house, the old judge, much mystified, following close behind her. She ushered him into a bedroom, bigger and more gorgeous than any bedroom he had ever seen, and leaving him standing, hat in hand, at the bedside of her chief charge, she went out and closed the door behind her.
"Utterly mystified by the incident, I finally left him in a state of stupor, and returned to my quarters, wondering whether I had dreamed half of the episode or the whole of it, whether he did really possess that wonderful palace, or whether he had borrowed it to impress me." I ceased speaking, and my story was received in absolute silence, until: "And that is all you know?" said Burton.
Such was my condition when one morning the favourite aunt of the Charpillon paid me a call, and said that they were all mystified at not having seen me since the supper I had given them, especially herself, as her niece had given her to understand that I would furnish her with the means of making the Balm of Life.
If they had told my master, when he came here to buy, the story that a young and beautiful woman was supposed to have been murdered here many years ago, and that at nights her spirit haunts the place, he never would have bought it. Other people imagine that they seen it; but we, who live here, never have." The man told this with such apparent earnestness and truth, that Varrick was mystified.
"Purchase it!" exclaimed Shuffles, mystified by the language of his companion. "Just so purchase it," added Pelham; and he proceeded to inform his late rival of the trick he had invented in retaliation for the one Shuffles had put upon him. "It was tit for tat," said Shuffles. "I told nothing which would harm either of us, for I am just as deep in the mud as you are in the mire." "That's true.
You are the secretary of our protector whom Almighty God has sent to Russia for our salvation." My eyes met the piercing gaze of the unkempt scoundrel, and, to my surprise, I found myself held mystified. Never before had any man or woman exercised such an all-powerful influence over me by merely gazing at me. That it was hypnotic was without doubt.
There stood the horses in readiness, and beside them Lord Elliot's servant, with his baggage. He sprang from the carriage, and, giving the coachman a douceur, ordered him to loosen the horses and return home with them. "But, your honor," stammered the mystified coachman, "how am I to call for my lady if you take the carriage?" "My lady can wait," said Lord Elliot, jeeringly.
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