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He had stepped aside as he spoke, and with a sweep of his arm he was driving them all out like sheep before him, dumbfounded and with their eyes in the dust, when suddenly there was a low cry from the inner room. It was Ruth calling for her husband. Israel wheeled about and went in to her hurriedly, and his enemies, by one impulse of evil instinct, followed him and listened from the threshold.
And she danced over to the dumbfounded little lady in the big chair, gave her an affectionate kiss, and then attacked the tangled mass of black with skilful fingers. "But, I you oh, my grief and conscience!" finished the little woman whose name was not Helen Clarabella. "Oh, my grief and conscience," according to Bertram, was Aunt Hannah's deadliest swear-word.
"Followed me?" Juve exclaimed. "Where from?" "From your rooms." "You mean, and you may as well own up to it at once, that you were shadowing me." "Well, yes, M. Juve, it is true," Fandor confessed, all in one breath. "I was shadowing you: I do every day!" Juve was dumbfounded. "Every day? And I never saw you! Gad, you are jolly clever!
He had found no time in his life to observe the new directions which thought and character were taking in the world; nor for observing the changed forms in which time moulds the various generations of mankind. He was dumbfounded, speechless, and only after a while did an ironical smile appear on his lips that lad with his theories was absurd! "All that you have said is simply ridiculous.
I couldn't move to save myself, I was so dumbfounded, and the carriage would have toppled down in another, second if you boys hadn't come along and hauled it back." "We saw you pass Mr. Baker's house," explained Blake, "and we came after you on the motor cycle. Tried to get ahead of you, but the old machine laid down on us." "But we got here in time," added Joe. "You did indeed!
Dumbfounded, and overcome with a miserable sense of the truth of Miss Spencer's words, Nella stood still. The idea of her colossal foolishness swept through her like a flood. She felt almost ashamed. But even at this juncture she had no fear. She faced the woman bravely, her mind leaping about in search of some plan. She could think of nothing but a bribe an enormous bribe.
Then she replaced it with trembling fingers, and, closing the drawer, sat staring straight before her dumbfounded, rigid. What was the mystery? By the knowledge she had obtained she became forearmed even defiant. In the light of that astounding discovery, she now read the mysterious Dr. Weirmarsh as she would an open book. She held her breath, and an expression of hatred escaped her lips.
They needed no urging, for they had been shut up in the cold so long that they were almost frozen. Introductions now followed all around and Ivan seemed genuinely pleased to meet Chester. He was profuse in his apologies for his rough treatment, while Chester was dumbfounded to learn that his captor was the brother of his old friend Alexis. They shook hands heartily.
"In what respect," asked Lorry, beginning to understand. "In all respects. I didn't have the slightest sign of proof against the festive Prince." "And you you did all that 'on a bluff'?" gasped the other. "Do I understand you to say that you have no evidence against Gabriel?" asked Halfont, dumbfounded. "Not a particle." "But you said his confederate had confessed," protested Dangloss.
He disappeared in the cabin whither Ralph followed dumbfounded at this unlooked for exhibition of temper on the part of his hitherto placid superior. The captain was flinging down some papers on the table. Looking up he recognized Ralph for the first time. "That you, Ralph?" he said, banishing a scowl in a smile that had no mirth in it. "Was it you outside?" "Yes, sir."
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