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The clock never struck, the signal was never given, and Du Terrail and his immediate comrades remained near the western gate, suspicious and much perplexed. The delay was fatal. The guard, the whole garrison, and the townspeople flew to arms, and half-naked, but equipped with pike and musket, and led on by Van der Noot in person, fell upon the intruders.
"Why are you always bringing her in?" "My dear boy, the analogy is so great it forces itself upon me." He stopped and stood looking at me with his modest, perplexed young face. I thought he was going to exclaim "The analogy be hanged!" but he said after a moment "Well, what does it prove?" "I can't say it proves anything; but it suggests a great many things."
"It's not only bills they're dreadfully worrying! we seem never to get free from them, but it's something else something quite new which has only happened, lately. There is an old loan from the bank that has been going on for years. Father had almost forgotten it, and now they're pressing him. It's dreadful. They know we're so hard up." Connie in her turn looked perplexed.
Laugh as he might, Fitzjocelyn was much concerned and perplexed by his cousin's ill-humour, when it appeared more permanent than could be puffed off in a few ebullitions. Attempts to penetrate the gloom made it heavier, and Louis resolved to give it time to subside. He waited some days before going near James, and when he next walked to his college found him engaged with pupils.
We had no time for unsuitable reading, and none of the cares or dissipations of maidenhood perplexed our straight forward way. If we could secure this simplicity for our children, we should have small reason to be anxious about their health. What, then, are the drawbacks to a teacher's efforts to-day?
There was an electric lamp in this motor, and by the light of it, his mind being perplexed, he began to read the typewritten document given to him by Mr. Jackson, which he still held in his hand.
Deep, anxious silence reigned around her until she again raised her lashes and, fixing her eyes wearily on Miriam, asked softly, as if perplexed by some strange spectacle: "You are a woman, and yet practise the art of the leech." "My God has commanded me to care for the suffering ones of our people," replied the other.
Another peculiarity in the French Constitution struck and perplexed Maltravers.
Even Uncle George, who had never been allowed a holiday to come and see me, but who had hitherto often written and begged me to write to him, broke off our correspondence. I was naturally perplexed and amazed by these changes, and persecuted my aunt to tell me the reason of them.
How else can you account for a man like that believing what he professes to believe?" "I don't know," said Erica, relapsing into perplexed silence. "Besides," continued Tom, "you cry out because I say they must be just a little touched, but they accuse us of something far worse than madness, they accuse us of absolute wickedness." "Not all of them," said Erica. "The greater part," said Tom.
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