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Cub also was nonplused at the "international situation". However, the ludicrous element of the affair did not escape them, and presently Mr. Baker was hurling the following heated rejoinder at the spokesman of the unfriendly four: "Now, see here, my fine fellow, I'm not going to listen to this nonsense any longer. My son has been kidnapped by you scoundrels, and I am a desperate man right now.
It was obviously unfair to expect her to be familiar with the flora and fauna of every part of the great Australian Continent. Sometimes she was absolutely nonplused, and had to stay a few days with a tribe until the women initiated her into the best methods of cooking the roots of the country. And often we could not understand the language.
Mis' Blossom was into it, and he come around to paint her up. She jest give him one look, and says, says she, 'I hain't never painted my face yit, and I don't calc'late to start in now. ... I got to admit she looked kind of pale and peeked amongst the rest, but she stuck to her principles." Yvette stared at Scattergood, nonplused for the first time. What did he mean? How was she to take him?
I certainly am an object of personal negligence, but hereafter the matter will have my attention." Carson was nonplused at both the answer and attitude. He had planned his remarks, however, and he proceeded along prepared lines. "Your remarks at that meeting were uncalled for. Your insistence created enemies.
The manager had dashed off to shake hands with a dramatic critic whose column had considerable influence. When he returned La Faloise was recovering. He was afraid of being treated as a provincial if he showed himself too much nonplused. "I have been told," he began again, longing positively to find something to say, "that Nana has a delicious voice."
At Nashville the night of the nomination a party of Whigs and Democrats had gathered in front of the principal hotel waiting for the arrival of the news, among the rest Sam Bugg and Chunky Towles, two local gamblers, both undoubting Democrats. At length Chunky Towles, worn out, went off to bed. The result was finally flashed over the wires. The crowd was nonplused.
I've been waitin' and waitin'." "What in time did you wait up there for? Why don't you come down?" "I can't. Kenelm's locked the doors, and the keys are right next to his room door. I can't get down." Here was an unexpected obstacle. Caleb was nonplused. "Go home!" wailed the voice from above. "Don't stand there. Go HOME! Can't you SEE it ain't any use? Go HOME!"
Even as he did so, from out of the gloom of the adjoining cellar, a man came into view, as if suddenly arisen from the ground. The man was Dave Kilgore. "Carter!" "Kilgore!" Each man uttered the name of the other, as if with the same breath. The meeting came so suddenly that, for the bare fraction of a second, both men were nonplused. Then both whipped out a weapon. Crack! Bang!
Her somewhat haughty glance, her high-arched nose, her thin lips, all showed decision and a scorn of other people's opinions and wishes. But at this moment she was plainly nonplused. "There there doesn't seem to be anybody about," she faltered. "Oh, go right into the store, ma'am. Cap'n Abe's somewheres around. He always is." Thus encouraged by the driver the woman stalked up the store steps.
But as that lady had not been apprised of his intention of picking her up, she was not at home. The daughter was just leaving the house to attend the meeting of a branch Folk Lore Society, and regretted that she could not accompany them. Arobin appeared nonplused, and asked Edna if there were any one else she cared to ask.
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