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It is Block, who left an hour or more ago." "Block? Then something has happened he has some special information, some great news! Shall we see him, M. le Juge?" When Block appeared, it was evident that something had gone wrong with him. His face wore a look of hot, flurried excitement, and his manner was one of abject, cringing self-abasement. "What is it?" asked the little Chief, sharply.
Many, many thanks," and, seizing her hand, he pressed it to his lips. "Will you not now allow me to see my fair Henrietta?" he asked. "Oh, I have been a little flurried, and did forget it was quite dark. I'll light the lamp in a minute." Etta's sweet voice was now heard humming a song in the next room.
'Hale! did it ever strike you that Thornton and your daughter have what the French call a tendresse for each other? 'Never! said Mr. Hale, first startled and then flurried by the new idea. 'No, I am sure you are wrong. I am almost certain you are mistaken. If there is anything, it is all on Mr. Thornton's side. Poor fellow!
And was her quarrel with her nephew of so serious a nature that she might hesitate as to taking his side here at least, till she knew he was in the right; and then, was he in the right? That was, though the last, the most vital consideration of all. 'I'd have thought of all these if the boy had not flurried me so.
The next ball came swiftly and threateningly down upon the leg side, and Doe, perhaps with the nervousness consequent upon the arrival of a new critic before whom he would fain do well, stepped back. A shout went up as it was seen that the ball had taken the leg bail. Doe looked flurried at this sudden dismissal and a bit upset.
After waiting a few minutes in an ante-room, I was ushered in. "My lord," said I, in a flurried manner, "will you allow me to have a few minutes' conversation with you alone?" "This gentleman is my secretary, sir, but if you wish it, certainly, for although he is my confidant, I have no right to insist that he shall be yours. Mr Temple, will you oblige me by going up stairs for a little while."
Its odd appearance, as well as the peculiar cry which it had uttered, would have alarmed many a one of less courage than our young hunter, and Basil was at first, as he afterwards confessed, "slightly flurried;" but a moment's reflection told him what the animal was one of the most innocent and inoffensive of God's creatures the Canada porcupine.
'I thought so, Tigg retorted. 'Shall I go? 'I think you had better. Stay though! No! remain here, Mr Nadgett, if you please. It was remarkable how pale and flurried he had become in an instant. There was nothing to account for it. His eye had fallen on his razors; but what of them! Mr Chuzzlewit was announced. 'Show him up directly. Nadgett! don't you leave us alone together.
The necessity of providing regular occasions for the assembling of the miscellaneous world of fashion led to the institution of Almack's, which died out in the advent of the new system of society, and in the fierce competition of its inexhaustible private entertainments. The season then was brilliant and sustained, but it was not flurried. People did not go to various parties on the same night.
Bowing deferentially, the polite attendant quickly drew back her chair, while she spread out her flowing skirts to an extent which threatened to envelop her mother, sinking meekly into her seat, not confused and flurried. But alas for 'Lina.
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