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The man surveyed him for the first time from head to foot. "Been a farmer up in Mendocino?" he queried. "Sorta," Hiram admitted. Then in a low voice: "To tell the truth, this is my first time in a city. I got in last night. I've never been out o' Mendocino County but once before." A few wrinkles of puzzlement came between the other's brows. "How old are you?"
"You must learn to concentrate, to focus your every attention on the job at hand, to " He broke off suddenly. The woman was standing in the doorway, holding a plate and a steaming mug. Her eyes were wide with puzzlement and astonishment. "You mean me?" "No ... no." He shook his head. "I ... was thinking of something else." She came on in, carrying the food. "You got tears in your eyes. You hurt?"
"I don't know," said the little girl, placing her thumb in her mouth; a sure sign of mingled deep-thought and puzzlement a mode of expression which, by the bye, she was not to enjoy much longer. These gesticulations are not in harmony with boarding-school etiquette. Her father did not make any other remark. He placed the newspaper on one side, and fell to work with his dinner.
I was stooping, in the act of filling the bucket, when I paused, arrested by a sudden, vague indefinable sound that puzzled me to account for and set me idly speculating whence it came and what it might be; so I filled the bucket and then, all in a moment, though why I cannot explain, puzzlement changed to swift and sudden dread and, dropping the bucket, I began to run, and with every stride my alarm grew, and to this was added horror and a great passion of rage.
He had come up from his hut all unnoticed just in time to hear Van's protesting inquiry. Now he stood with eyes only for his horses. Daylight at last shone through the mist of doubt and puzzlement which had kept the citizens of Suffering Creek in darkness so long. They looked at this lean, harsh figure and understood.
It was now that the colonel casually turned his attention to the groom, He observed him. First, his gray eyebrows arched abruptly in surprise, then sank in puzzlement. "What is it?" inquired Betty, noting these signs. "Nothing; nothing of importance," answered the colonel, growing violently red.
When he came into my apartment and told me he meant to set off from Rome next day, I ventured to express my puzzlement that he had bought me and never mentioned to me, since I came into his possession, any of the subjects on which he had questioned me and for knowledge of which he had, presumably, wanted me. "Oh," he said, "I didn't buy you for myself.
Energies we know nothing of entered into its shaping and are part of it; and still other energies it has gathered to itself" she paused; a shadow of puzzlement crept into her voice "and other energies still, forces that ye do know and symbolize by certain names hatred and pride and lust and many others which are forces real as that hidden in the Keth; and among them fear, which weakens all those others " Again she paused.
A similar feeling of puzzlement to that which I have indicated, besets one not unfrequently in the contemplation of men and women. You are brought in contact with a person, you attempt to comprehend him, to enter into him, in a word to be him, and, if you are utterly foiled in the attempt, you cannot flatter yourself that you have been successful to the measure of your desire.
The puzzlement vanished from the older man's face, and his eyes became alert, renewing from another angle their investigation of the stranger. Warrington. So this was the man? He could understand now. Who could blame a girl for making a mistake when he, a seasoned veteran, had been beguiled by the outward appearance of the man? Mallow was right. He was a handsome beggar.
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