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It was because she noticed that another fish had appeared in the pan. She looked surprised, but did not say anything. She probably meant to inquire of Ursula about this later. There were other surprises: flesh and game and wines and fruits things which had been strangers in that house lately; but Marget made no exclamations, and now even looked unsurprised, which was Satan's influence, of course.
He had all manner of talents and pursuits. Knowledge the only kind of knowledge he cared for, that of practical things, things alive in the world of to-day seemed to come to him without any effort on his part. A new invention concealed no mysteries from him; he looked into it; understood, calculated its scope. A strange piece of news from any part of the world found him unsurprised, explanatory.
"De Ingins kill our 'effer," he lamented, in the mongrel speech of the quarter-breed. "Dey didn't need him; dey have plenty to eat. But dey kill our 'effer and laugh." "My cow, is it also killed, Ignace?" Marianson's neighbors closed around her, unsurprised at her late arrival, filled only with the general calamity.
"Lord!" grasped Gillow, inarticulate: while the Prince displayed the unsurprised smile which Susy accused him of practicing every morning with his Mueller exercises. Suddenly Susy felt Strefford's eyes upon her. "What's the matter with me? Too much rouge?" she asked, passing her arm in his as they left the table. "No: too little. Look at yourself," he answered in a low tone.
"Let me see, it means something about cooperation, doesn't it?" "Well, in a way there has come to be a sort of connection," I answered unsurprised by this time at such gaps in his vocabulary, which, like his knowledge, was the acquirement of a self-read, self-educated man, whom no one had directed in his studies, and who had thought much and talked little or not at all.
Had it been two sticks instead of seventeen, he would have been equally unsurprised. Since all acts of white men were surprises, the only surprise of action they could achieve for a black man would be the doing of an unsurprising thing.
I remarked, for his animal's sides were lathered with foam. "I was paid to ride fast!" he answered surlily; "my employer feared you would have started." "Started!" I echoed unsurprised, "whither?" "He did not confide in me," the fellow replied, "and I didn't ask; 'twould have been no use.
Every Falin made a nervous reach for his pistol, the line of gun-muzzles covering them wavered slightly, but the Tollivers stood still and unsurprised, and when Hale dashed from the door again, there was a grim smile of triumph on old Judd's face. He had kept his promise that Rufe should never hang. "Steady there," said Hale quietly.
He was about to rise when, suddenly, with no other noise than that of the sharp click of the switch, the electric lights in the room blazed up brilliantly. The glare dazzled Mr. Grimm with its blinding flood, but he didn't move. Then softly, almost in a whisper: "Good evening, Mr. Grimm." It was a woman's voice, pleasant, unsurprised, perfectly modulated. Mr.
In the course of years he had grown pathetically and exasperatingly convinced of his own importance, but he had been there so long that his dictatorial airs and humors were regarded with the unsurprised tolerance granted to things of long standing, and were forgiven in view of his devotion to the best interests of the library, which took the place of a family to him.
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