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He moved at a stride so vigorous that the good townspeople, roused by the rare spectacle of a man in a hurry, interrupted their passive loafing beside well and in doorway, and turned wondering eyes after him. But if their eyes showed wonderment at his going, on his return they showed amazement and a kind of horror.
"Now I have you," she declared, gazing in wonderment at the very good-looking boy who tried in vain to escape from the stirrup in which his boot had stuck. Seeing her opportunity, Dorothy dropped the bridle and crop, and, with both hands, grasped the boy very much in the same manner as he had seized her the day before. "Let me go!" he snarled, struggling to free himself.
The man who had been strolling carelessly towards her, seemed surprised by this reply, and looking attentively in her face, rejoined: 'Why, what can you want with Dombey and Son's? 'To know the way there, if you please. The man looked at her yet more curiously, and rubbed the back of his head so hard in his wonderment that he knocked his own hat off.
Oh, dear! She was so tired. It demanded a physical effort to constantly shove away an unseen force that tried to push you over. How funny that a big cloud should travel up against the wind! And so, amidst confused wonderment, she lapsed into an uneasy slumber, her last sentient thought being a quiet thankfulness that the screw went thud-thud, thud-thud with such firm determination.
He was no friend to the League; for years he had stood between the king, his master, and the machinations of the Guises. On the other hand, he was no friend to the Huguenots. "To seat a heretic on the throne of France were to deny God," he said. Therefore he came home to St. Quentin, where he abode in quiet for some three years, to the great wonderment of all the world.
"I think we had better tie up your eyes again, Connie?" I said. "Why?" she asked, in wonderment. "There's nothing higher yet, is there?" "No, my love. If there were, you would hardly be able for it to-day, I should think. It is only to keep you from being frightened at the precipice as you go down." "But I sha'n't be frightened, papa." "How do you know that?" "Because you are going to carry me."
"Glad!" she exclaimed. "Yes, for my sake, glad." And as she looked at him in wonderment he went on: "Two lives should not be spoilt because of you. Had you had your way, had I not found out, not two but three lives would have been spoilt because of you because of your loyalty." "Three?" "Yours. Yes yes, yours, Feversham's, and mine.
Before her playfully imperative injunction was fairly spoken, Richard had glanced at the document and discovered a Griffin between two Wheatsheaves: his crest in silver: and below O wonderment immense! his own handwriting! He handed it to her. She took it, and put it in her bosom.
She seemed to have aged several years since the last evening I had seen her through the microscope. Yet, undeniably, it was the same girl. "For some moments we sat looking at each other in wonderment. Then she smiled and held out her hand, palm up, speaking a few words as she did so.
Even while speaking he had vanished within the house, returned quickly having replaced his dark suit by jean trousers tucked in heavy boots, and a red flannel shirt over his starched white one and, nodding gayly to Mainwaring, stepped from the lower end of the veranda. "The beggar actually looks pleased to go," said Mainwaring to himself in wonderment. "Oh! Jim," said Mrs.
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