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Now, Fairfax, guess who Mr. Frank was if you can! By heaven, it was the very individual youth who, the night before, had been so absolute in putting an end to our duel! I was planet-struck! Nor was his surprise less, when he saw me, and heard my errand and my name. I found my gentleman as positive in the morning as in the evening. He was the dragon; touch the fruit who dared!
"Why, master, what is the matter?" Ghysbrecht's pale lips worked as if he was going to answer; but they uttered no sound: his hands fell by his side, and he stared into the chest. "Why, master, what avails glaring into that empty box? The lad is not there. See here! note the cunning of the young rogue; he hath taken out the bar, and " "Gone! What is gone, Holy saints! he is planet-struck!"
"The very image of Wordsworth," says De Quincey, for instance, "as I prefigured it to my own planet-struck eye, crushed my faculties as before Elijah or St. Paul."
Then, as though it were some foul thing, Richard tossed aside Storri's hand, from the nails of which blood came oozing in black drops as large as grapes. "What was it?" gasped Dorothy, who had stood throughout the duel like one planet-struck; "what was it you did?" "Storri on his knee?" asked Richard with a kind of vicious sweetness.
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