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With blanched cheek Alizon listened, scarcely daring to look at her mother, whose expression of countenance, revealed by the lamp she held in her hand, almost frightened her; and it was a great relief to hear the voices and laughter of the serving-men as they came forth with Nicholas, and bore him towards another part of the mansion; and though much shocked, she was glad when one of them, who appeared to be Nicholas's own servant, assured the others "that it was only a drunken fit and that the squire would wake up next morning as if nothing had happened."
A Greek, such as Lucian, had perhaps a right to be shocked by this architectural debauch, this beauty too crushing and too rich. A Carthage rhetorician, like Augustin, could feel at the sight of it nothing but the same irritated admiration and secret jealousy as the Emperor Constans felt when he visited his capital for the first time.
Here it is according to Melmoth: "The letter which, in compliance with your request, I wrote to you concerning the death of my uncle, has raised, it seems, your curiosity to know what terrors and danger attended me while I continued at Misenum: for there, I think, the account in my former letter broke off. 'Though my shocked soul recoils, my tongue shall tell.
Once more she uttered an unintelligible phrase, and began again to make the feeble gesture of despairing helplessness which had so shocked me at her waking. She appeared, however, to take courage when I put the question to her: "What do you want of me, dear aunt?" She made a sign that Julie was to leave the room, and no sooner were we alone than her face changed.
It is possible to describe a young girl attractively and effectively in much simpler fashion. Let me give an example, not a famous passage at all, from another writer: She shocked no canon of taste; she was admirably in keeping with herself, and never jarred against surrounding circumstances.
A few days after this I was at my aunt Kate Doneghy's. Uncle James, or "Jim," we called him, her husband, was not a Christian. My aunt seemed also shocked to have him speak thus to me. I left the room and avoided meeting him again. How he crushed me! It had the effect to make me feel like a criminal. The Protestant Church here makes a fatal error which the Catholics avoid.
For it had been a crime to make, or help to make, this noble and beautiful woman love a Ranger, the enemy of her father, and surely the author of her coming misery. I felt shocked at my work. I tried to hang an excuse on my old motive that through her love we might all be saved. When it was too late, however, I found that this motive was wrong and perhaps without warrant. We rode home in silence.
"On whom?" "Your murderer, of course." "I have his confession in my pocket." It was the first time that Rachel had known her husband taken visibly aback. "Good God!" he cried. "Then you don't think it's me any longer?" "I know it is not. Nevertheless, Mrs. Steel must prepare for a shock." Rachel was shocked.
But I am, you know, a positive genius in that respect. So I'm going to pretend I'm an Englishman of the worthy, thick-headed, bulldog breed. And you are my devoted and adorable wife. You needn't look shocked. It's all for the sake of that chap's morals. Do you think I can do it?" "I don't want you to do it, Nap," she said earnestly. He dropped the subject instantly. "Your wish is law.
This difficulty was removed by Faith offering the loan of her second best dress. "It's faded a little and two of the buttons are off, but I guess it'll do." "I'll sew the buttons on in a jiffy," said Mary. "Not on Sunday," said Una, shocked. "Sure. The better the day the better the deed. You just gimme a needle and thread and look the other way if you're squeamish."
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