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If there ever were a set of dumbfounded men, they were the rustlers who closed about the leader and recognized him in the moonlight. The remarks that followed his identification were as ludicrous as they were vigourous. The majority believed he had played a trick on them in pretending to be Mont Sterry, whom all were so anxious to bring down; but there were one or two who were not satisfied.
Before they had finished, Donald Whiting came down the sidewalk, his cheeks flushed with the exercise of walking, his eyes bright with anticipation, his cause forever won in case he had a cause with Katy, because she liked the wholesome, hearty manner in which he greeted Linda, and she was dumbfounded when he held out his hand to her and said laughingly: "Blessed among women, did you put in a fine large consignment of orange punch?"
He will probably tell you that he is dumbfounded, and that he would not believe that a young woman in this Christian land could trifle with such solemn realities, that is, himself and his feelings." "But I don't think it would be quite right," protested Bel, feebly. Mr. Harcourt lifted his eyebrows. "Nonsense! Suppose it is not," said Lottie, impatiently.
Evelyn and Rosemary disappeared to take off their hats before the grand presentation ceremony should begin, and Hugh had begun to occupy the time of their absence by lighting the fire with pine cones, when a cry from the beloved voice called him to the room adjoining. The door was open, and the woman and the child stood dumbfounded and overwhelmed in a scene of incredible desolation.
Dorothy was in the conservatory that afternoon, when he suddenly surprised her, stealing up on tip-toe behind her, clasped her in his arms, holding his hands over her eyes, whispering: "Guess who it is, Dorothy." The struggle to escape those firm arms suddenly ceased. The girl was dumbfounded with amazement. "Is it can it be you, Harry Mr. Kendal?" she gasped, breathlessly.
Alfred Vail telegraphed the news to Morse in Washington, and he at once told Mr. Wright. The result was that a few minutes later the Convention was dumbfounded to receive a message from Wright declining to be nominated. They would not believe it, and appointed a committee to inquire into the matter; but the telegram was found to be genuine.
Gladstone wants to put England's head on the block, to hand an axe to her sworn enemy, and to say, 'I'm sure you won't chop. People who have common sense stand amazed, dumbfounded at so much stupidity." A pious Catholic bore out the statements of my first Achil friend with reference to the comparative comfort of the Islanders. He said: "We live mostly on bread and tea.
"Was I free yes or no to do what I would with my own? Was it not mine?" "You are a child." "Of age." Dumbfounded by his daughter's logic, Grandet turned pale and stamped and swore. When at last he found words, he cried: "Serpent! Cursed girl! Ah, deceitful creature! You know I love you, and you take advantage of it. She'd cut her father's throat!
He will waste you wind enough to set up twenty millers, in proving an apple is not an egg-shell; and that homo is Greek for a goose. Dun Scotus was a school boy to him. I confess, he has more than once dumbfounded me by his subtleties. Pshaw! It is a mortal murder of words and time to bestow them on him. My sister is in correspondence with my new divinity.
With a wail like a wounded animal's she slipped down on the stone bench, and, burying her face in her muff, the tension of soul of all these days broke down, and she wept bitter, anguishing tears. Tristram was dumbfounded. He knew not what to do. Whatever was the cause, it now hurt him horribly to see her weep weep like this as if with broken heart.
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