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The pair passed through the cardinal's library, and went down through the tower, in which was a door, the key of which Etienne had given to Gabrielle. Stupefied by the dread of coming evil, the poor youth left in the tower the torch he had brought to light the steps of his beloved, and continued with her toward the cottage.
Smith. "My dear child, of course we don't want you to," and Mrs. Smith bent and kissed her. "We love you dearly and we like your work. I can't think what Mr. Clark could have meant or Dr. Watkins " "It was Edward Watkins who told Mr. Clark," repeated Ethel Brown. Gertrude sat stupefied. "Unless the wish were father to the thought," ended Mrs. Smith softly.
In making my inquest, I find that death was not due to the automobile smash-up. Mr. Felderson was shot through the head, from behind. We have rendered a verdict of murder." Murdered! For a moment I was stupefied by the doctor's revelation, and then, as he went on to describe the course of the bullet, and certain technical aspects of the case, a sudden rush of thankfulness came over me.
She had not been immersed in the icy water for three minutes all perspiring as she was with her consumptive rattle before she had felt strength returning to her like a whipstroke lashing her whole body. And now a flaming excitement possessed her; radiant, stamping her feet, she was unable to keep still. "I am cured, my good gentlemen, I am cured!" Pierre looked at her, this time quite stupefied.
Gascoyne burst into a helpless laugh at his blank, stupefied face, but the next moment he laid his hand on his friend's shoulder. "Myles," he said, "thou wilt not make trouble, wilt thou?" Myles made no answer. He flung down his sheepskin and sat him gloomily down upon the side of the cot. "I said that I would sooner die than fetch water for them," said he.
I knew you would never part with it, and I therefore felt sure there was no deception." "But how did you get here?" inquired Surrey. "Your messenger provided a rope-ladder, by which I descended into the moat," she replied. Surrey was stupefied.
No contraction or extension of the muscles, no trace of conflict could be perceived; it seemed evident that they had been taken unawares, the more so as their faces expressed the most intense terror. "Thus," said the old doctor, "we may reasonably suppose that they were stupefied by some entirely unexpected, strange, and frightful spectacle.
But he was too late to take his messmate's hand in his, and say farewell, if that had been his intention, for Lieutenant Leigh had fallen back; and that senseless figure by his side was to all appearance as dead, when, with a quivering lip, Captain Dyer gently lifted her, and bore her to where, half stupefied, Mrs Colonel Maine was sitting.
Pierre was the first to cross the threshold, and as he did so, he saw so extraordinary a sight that for an instant he felt stupefied. But it was certain enough: he could plainly distinguish his brother Guillaume emerging from the gaping doorway which conducted to the foundations of the basilica.
"A plot?" broke in M. Folgat, "whose? how? and what for?" "Ah! that is more than I know. But I am not mistaken; and you would think so too, if you had been present at the examination, as I was. It was fearful, gentlemen, it was unbearable, so that even I was stupefied for a moment, and thought my master was guilty, and advised him to flee. The like has never been heard of before, I am sure.
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