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But what heart and courage!" added the soldier, with admiration; "and so young, with such a girlish look!" "And so," cried Blanche, joyfully, "our Gabriel came to your aid also?" "Gabriel!" said Dagobert interrupting Blanche, and addressing himself to the priest. "Is your name Gabriel?" "Yes, sir." "Gabriel!" repeated the soldier, more and more surprised. "And a priest!" added he.
Rabbi Mendel was not surprised next morning when a message came from the Governor, requesting his immediate presence at the palace. The summons did not create the consternation which had been caused by the unceremonious call of a few days before. On the contrary, Recha felt proud of the distinction accorded her husband in being thus made the confidant of the mighty ruler of Kief.
"Strangers are apt to be unpleasantly surprised by them," replied White, "but they are here all the same, and they extend as far north as any white man has ever been. I have been told that they are as bad in Greenland as here, and I expect they flourish at the North Pole itself.
"Look!" she cried, pointing upward through the window. "Isn't she lovely?" I stopped short in my tracks and stared at her in blank amazement. What a stupefying creature she was! She beckoned again, impatiently. I obeyed with alacrity. Obtaining a rather clear view of her eyes, I was considerably surprised to find no trace of departed tears.
People of course said that Austin was a harsh husband, and pitied poor Mrs Austin; but that people always do say if a woman is not inclined to mirth. Austin found ample amusement in sporting over his extensive manor, and looking after his game. In one point the neighbouring gentlemen were surprised, that, although so keen a sportsman himself, he never could be prevailed upon to convict a poacher.
Without the least hesitation, Mercy told him her father's fancy that he was building the new village to spite him, seeing it could not be a pleasure to himself to have the smoke from its chimneys blowing in at door and windows as often as the wind was from the sea. "I am sorry but not surprised your father should think so, Mercy. To trouble him is as much against my feelings as my interests.
But that she should leave him now, leave him altogether, such a thought had never occurred to him, and it struck him with a chill of surprised alarm. "You cannot mean it, Francoise," he cried, in a trembling voice. "No, no, it is impossible that you are in earnest."
He always gave me a reassuring beck of his finger and lift of his eyelid as he got upon the box again, but he seemed perplexed now when he said, "Get on, my lad!" At last, when we were changing, he told me that he had lost the track of the dress so long that he began to be surprised.
She had also surprised the oldest actress of the theatre, their excellent mother Ravaud, in a corridor, baring, at Ligny's approach, all that was left to her, her magnificent arms, which had been famous for forty years. Fagette, with disgust, and the tip of a gloved finger, called Nanteuil's attention to the scene through which Durville, old Maury and Marie-Claire were struggling.
Even Blake was surprised at the measurement. It was only a little over two thousand feet. "Noticed this place when out with Mr. Knowles and Gowan," he remarked, gazing down into the abyss with keen appreciation of its awful grandeur. "They told me it is the nearest that the cañon comes to the edge of the mesa, until it breaks out, thirty or forty miles down."
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