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Updated: June 14, 2025
I cannot tell you how I felt as I was being marshaled up the whole length of the room, stared at by every one, and criticized, probably, for this horrible breach of etiquette. I never was so mortified in all my life. I took my place, speechless and confused, and Prince Murat, who sat on the other side of me, kept saying, "The Emperor is piping mad."
Of course I'm still here! Did you expect me to escape?" Sinclair flung himself into a chair, speechless with rage and disgust. "Did you think I was joking when I told you I was going to sleep eight hours without waking up?" "It might very well have been a trap, you know." Sinclair groaned.
One faint cry escaped his lips, and then he was mute and motionless, chilled to the very heart. A great awe and speechless dread overwhelmed him, . . for he a living man and fully conscious of life stood alone, surrounded by a ghastly multitude of skeletons, skeletons bleached white as ivory and glistening with a smooth, moist polish as of pearl.
We who have not his opportunity may find it more difficult to decide; but from our private knowledge of Dr Drummond we may remember what poor Finlay probably forgot at the moment, that even when pitted against Providence, the Doctor was a man of great determination. The young fellow got up, still speechless, and confronted Dr Drummond.
With all your acknowledgements and confessions, so creditable to your noted prudence ! I was indeed speechless for some time: my eyes were even fixed, and ceased to flow. But upon the hard-hearted Bella's proceeding with her airs of insult, Indeed I was mistaken, said I; indeed I was! For in you, Bella, I expected, I hoped for, a sister
For an instant Alec scowled at the President; but Sergius Nesimir's vacuous features so obviously revealed his condition of speechless surprise and distress that there remained only Stampoff, Prince Michael and his mother.
Casting a lurid light in the heavens, towards which rise volumes of smoke, it attracts the attention of the native, who lifts his starting eyes towards heaven in a speechless prayer to the Holy Virgin. Madly leaping on his fleetest horse, without saddle, and often without bridle, he wildly gallops down the wind, as the roaring, crackling fire gains upon him.
The letter dropped from her hand; she sat aghast and speechless, terrified beyond measure, and yet unable to determine, or divine, even, to what its dark warnings and darker denunciations pointed.
Then came to her sharp as any knife, the thought of what there might be. "There's nothing wrong with anyone? There hasn't been an accident or anything?" The other, still speechless, conveyed "No." "Don't," said Betty again. And slowly and very artistically the flood was abated. Lady St. Craye was almost calm, though still her breath caught now and then in little broken sighs.
Then he drove the servants headlong to the chemist's, and descending into the kitchen closely examined every copper vessel there by candle light, scolded the cook and the scullery maids till they were in tears, and terrified Clementina by telling her she was the cause of it all to the speechless confusion of the innocent creature. Not content with this, he made his way at once to Mr.
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