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Andrew, emerging suddenly from the wings, stood wonder-stricken. "But you are a bird-woman," said he. "I have heard of such, but never seen one." From that moment, the town-bred, town-compelled woman who had thought of bird-life only in terms of sparrows, set about to test her unsuspected powers.
Power of David, who stood looking, as if he still saw and heard the haunted lady. "Very much; but better as a woman. I'd no idea she had it in her," answered David, in a wonder-stricken tone. "Plenty of tragedy and comedy in all of us," began Mr. Power; but David said hastily: "Yes, but few of us have passion and imagination enough to act Shakspeare in that way."
'But I have been; though I never suspected it, till yesterday. My dear blind daughter, hear me and forgive me! The world you live in, heart of mine, doesn't exist as I have represented it. The eyes you have trusted in, have been false to you. She turned her wonder-stricken face towards him still; but drew back, and clung closer to her friend.
I shouted, as the childish pantomime went on, and the savage stared in all directions as if wonder-stricken at a strange noise coming he knew not whence, and ending by kneeling down and laying his ear to the ground. "Hi!" I shouted again; but it was of no use, he could not possibly see either us, our chest, our fire, or the hut, but kept sidling along, staring in every direction but the right.
He stared and stared from the child to her, in throbbing amazement. "Us?" he gasped at last. And still his wonder-stricken eyes turned to and fro. Margaret was surprised in her turn, It was an age of impressions not facts, "What!" she cried, "doth not a father know his own child? and a man of God, too?
Men, as he shambled by on the streets, unconsciously muttered, "Beast!" women, shrinking from him, whispered, "Beast!" between the heart-throbs the terror of his presence created; children, hushing their cries in silent horror at his grimace, stared "Beast!" out of their wonder-stricken eyes.
The wonder-stricken visitor laid down the book and took up another, which was, at any rate, written in English. This he found to be Bishop Butler's Analogy. Putting it down speedily as something not in his line, he laid hands upon a third. This proved to be Patrum Apostolicorum Opera, on which he saddled his horse and went right away, leaving the Oxonian to his baking.
It was plain from their manner to each other that their former slight acquaintance had moved towards something like a pleasant friendship. Domini looked as if she were no longer a wonder-stricken sight-seer in this marvellous garden of the sun, but as if she had become familiar with it. Yet her wonder was not gone. It was only different. There was less sheer amazement, more affection in it.
And, wild as the story seems, he does certainly seem to bring something that looks very like the proof of what he says." "And what are those proofs?" inquired Middleton, wonder-stricken at the strange reduplication of his own position and pursuits.
At sight of the fool he paused to take stock of him, what time the fool returned the compliment with wonder-stricken interest. For however much Fanfulla's raiment might have suffered in yesternight's affray, it was very gorgeous still, and in the velvet cap upon his head a string of jewels was entwined.
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