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Helen was delighted with the generosity of the Major's good-humour. On the contrary, it quite took aback and disappointed poor Pen, whose nerves were strung up for a tragedy, and who felt that his grand entree was altogether baulked and ludicrous. He blushed and winced with mortified vanity and bewilderment.
"Heaven itself wills it. Providence is on our side," wrote Father Corbelan; there was no time to reflect upon or to controvert his statement; and if the discussion started upon the reading of that letter in the Amarilla Club was violent, it was also shortlived. In the general bewilderment of the collapse some jumped at the idea with joyful astonishment as upon the amazing discovery of a new hope.
The moment of exposure had been exquisitely painful the light shed startlingly vivid. She had now to get used to the fact that some one shared her loneliness. The bewilderment was half shame and half the prelude to profound rejoicing. Nor was she unconscious that on the surface the whole thing must appear of the utmost absurdity.
Here the warrior paused with his burden; and, seating himself on the bank, once more attempted to calm the girl's continued bewilderment and terror. He thought not on his sentinels, whom he had abandoned on his absence from the suburbs, which might be perceived and punished by an unexpected visit, at his deserted quarters, from his superiors in the camp.
He reached up and found the next one above, and then for the first time realized that his eyes had been closed all the time he was feeling along the cold surface of the rock. He opened them in a start of actual bewilderment. The blackish mass rose almost sheer above him, like a vast wall upon which the moon cast a dull, murky light. He closed his eyes again and leaned heavily against the rock.
"The gossips of the neighbourhood have long since decided that I was an ignorant little fool who wasn't fit to be the mistress of Greenriver; and I suppose it's a case of birds of a feather, isn't it?" "Toni!" Owen's voice expressed bewilderment. "What on earth do you mean? Who ever dared to say you weren't fit to be mistress of Greenriver?" "Oh, heaps of people," said Toni recklessly.
He stared in utter bewilderment, vastly interested in the great transformation. Under his very eyes a city of white was about to spring into existence. Some one touched his shoulder, not ungently. He started in sudden alarm. A rough-looking fellow in a soiled red undershirt was standing at his elbow. "The boss says you'd better come to the cook-top and get somethin' to eat, young feller."
"I have such a headache, mamma," and she tried to wake herself out of her bewilderment and look natural. "Where is Maurice?" "He is gone he is coming back this evening, I think he said." Mrs. Costello guessed instantly that Maurice was the cause of Lucia's disturbance. "Poor child!" she thought; "it could not help but be a surprise to her. I wonder if all is going well?"
About it, sir, and do as my mother has commanded you." He turned to her, all bent and grovelling, arms outstretched in ludicrous bewilderment, every line of him beseeching guidance along this path so suddenly grown thorny. "Ma madonna!" he stammered. She swallowed hard, and spoke at last. "Do you defy my will, Agostino?" "On the contrary, madam mother, I am enforcing it.
She was able to describe any outward seeming of old Phoebe, or of Ruth. But what could she know, or guess, of the stunned bewilderment of their minds? When asked by Gwen what each of the old twins had said at sight of the other for she had been present, if not at their meeting, a few moments later she seemed at a loss for a report of definite speech.
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