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And Marguerite's a free agent too, I hope. Of course he's thunder-struck to discover that Marguerite is a free agent. He would be!" "He certainly is in a state," said George, with an uneasy short laugh. Agg continued: "And why is he in a state? Because Marguerite says she shall leave the house? Not a bit. Only because of what he thinks is the scandal of her leaving. Mr. Haim is a respectable man.
It was only when he had come quite close to the crescent of the seven and flung up his face to look at them, that Syme saw, with thunder-struck clearness, that the face was the broad, almost ape-like face of his old friend Gregory, with its rank red hair and its insulting smile. "Gregory!" gasped Syme, half-rising from his seat. "Why, this is the real anarchist!"
In fine, he stood pale and thunder-struck; he thought he saw the officers already come to drag him to condign punishment, and could not think what resolution to take. The sultan of Casgar's purveyor did not observe the little gentleman's hunch when he was beating him, but as soon as he did, he threw out a thousand imprecations against him.
Edward Silk grumbled something under his breath; Miss Kybird, turning to the intruder with a smile of welcome, remarked that she had just thought of going to sleep. "Going to sleep?" repeated Mr. Silk, thunder-struck. "Yes," said Miss Kybird, yawning. Mr. Silk gazed at her, open-mouthed. "What, with me 'ere?" he inquired, in trembling tones.
As soon as he came to Sherborne, he went to his usual quarters, the sign of the Boot, where he inquired for his wife and daughter; but how was he thunder-struck, when he was told they were in hold, at Webb’s the bailiff!
And then he stopped, thunder-struck, as a clear, girlish laugh rose on the air. It was Dolly who laughed. "I couldn't help it," she said, afterward. "He was so funny, and he didn't know it! As if anyone would take a man who talked such rot as that seriously!" But the trouble was that, vain and pompous as Niles plainly was, his official position made it necessary to take him seriously.
The effect of this sudden appearance was overwhelming. Mrs. Willoughby stood thunder-struck, and the Baron utterly bewildered. The latter recovered his faculties first. It was just as Lady Dalrymple was passing out. With a bound he sprang toward Minnie, and caught her in his arms, uttering a series of inarticulate cries. "Oh, Min! and you did come down, did you?
Mrs. Cleveland applied her hand vigorously to a bell-pull communicating with her husband's dressing room. He made his presence in a splendid robe de chambre and a Turkish cap with a gold tassel. "This woman," said his better half, "says you owe her a thousand dollars." "Monsieur cannot deny it," said the French woman, fixing her keen black eyes on the thunder-struck Cleveland.
But his lower jaw was held in its place by his teeth, and this perpetuated in the aged dwindled countenance something of the likeness of the fierce and sinister visage that had confronted me yesterday. I was thunder-struck by the alteration, and stood overwhelmed with awe, confusion, and alarm.
She, thunder-struck, rose at the same moment and regarded him with astonishment. "You will not regard the cost?" cried he, in a broken voice, approaching still nearer to the duchess. "Well, this sum I will lend to you on one condition, one single condition and I swear that " He could not finish his declaration.
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