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He brought the three letters forth as he spoke, arranged them by their superscriptions, presented the first to my lord, who took it greedily, and advanced towards Mrs. Henry holding out the second. But the lady waved it back. "To my husband," says she, with a choked voice. The Colonel was a quick man, but at this he was somewhat nonplussed. "To be sure!" says he; "how very dull of me! To be sure!"
"Oh, you're the owner of this place!" said the stranger, laughing. "Do you own the road, too?" "Yes," said Nicholas, "I own the road in front of my place." Dick laughed again. "You're a young man, ain't you, to be a landed proprietor. How about your mother? Doesn't she own anything?" "What do you know about my mother?" demanded Nicholas, a little nonplussed.
She stopped sewing to listen to the conversation between the girls. Landis was not nonplussed, whatever the circumstances. She was not offended now by Elizabeth's words, but was surprised. She appeared shocked that Elizabeth should be crude enough to show vehemence. "What a little spitfire you are, Elizabeth! When you're a few years older you'll learn not to express yourself so strongly.
He had been nonplussed at sight of them. For a moment he had let his eyes mirror the dismay of his soul. The explanation he had given was quite inadequate as a cause. Twenty-four hours later Kirby had discovered the dead body of the Japanese valet Horikawa. The man had been dead perhaps a day.
Is she taking advantage of his being a lonely stranger, far from home and friends, to mock him? He goes over to what she calls the bed, and snatching off the top-most sack from the pile and holding it up, says: "Perhaps you'll tell me what this is, then?" "That," says the girl, "that's the bed!" He is somewhat nonplussed at the unexpected reply. "Oh!" he says. "Oh! the bed, is it?
Thou dost ask much, yet givest little." The King's favorite was nonplussed. To question James concerning affairs of State was no light matter, yet, in opposition to so doing stood the anger and the loss of Mistress Vaux. This thought, which he could not endure, caused him to hesitate.
Sartoris promised to assist to the extent of his ability; but neither he nor his wife would accept the responsibility of deciding what they should do, or in fact undertaking the management. The trio seemed rather nonplussed, when Pansey Cottrell, who had taken no part in the discussion, said quietly, "Why don't you go down to the rectory, and talk things over with the young ladies there?
He was rather tall, but extremely thin and narrow-shouldered, and had extraordinarily lank hair of a reddish hue. All Stepan Trofimovitch's condescending gibes at some of his opinions he accepted mildly, answered him sometimes very seriously, and often nonplussed him. Stepan Trofimovitch treated him very kindly, and indeed he behaved like a father to all of us.
'I do not know, she added, brusquely, 'what Madame Scarron does; she is always the same. "The lady in waiting answered on the spot: 'Madame, no one finds you changed, either, and it is always the same thing. "The half-polite, half-bantering tone of Madame de Maintenon nonplussed the Palatine for the moment; she wished to demand an explanation from the lady in waiting.
His life was in the hands of Fate and of Peg. He waited breathlessly for the effect. Peg looked at him in blank astonishment. All expression had left her face. Then she leaned back against the balustrade and laughed long and unrestrainedly. She laughed until the tears came coursing down her cheeks. Alaric was at first nonplussed. Then he grasped the situation in its full significance.
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