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The bold, half-naked, disgraceful hussies, etc., etc. And then she capped the thing by calling to the steward to come and drive them out! "Not one of the native women could answer her. They were all simply dumbfounded at such a gross insult, and left the cabin in silence. The mate tried to smooth things over, but one of the women Mataafa's niece gave him a look that told him to say no more.
The word spoken as Katie spoke it had suggestion of unholy things. "But God is life," he said. Suddenly Katie's eyes blazed. "God! Well it's my opinion that you know just as little about Him as you do about 'life." It was doubtless the most dumbfounded moment of the Reverend Saunders' life. His jaw dropped. But only to come together the tighter. "Young woman," said he, "I am a servant of God.
De dunderin' nigger liked to kill me." Miss Prescott was dumbfounded to hear her lover spoken of in this manner. "Why, what do you mean, my friend? Why do you speak of him in that manner?" "He jumped down out of a tree on top of mine head, and nearly mashed it down lower dan my shoulders. Den he rolled round, kicked up his heels and laughed at me." "Of whom are you speaking? Lieutenant Can "
'Yo're that orkard wi things, Margret, yo're like a dog dancin. But in the bustle Margaret had managed to say to David, 'Howd your tongue, noddle-yed, will yo? And so unexpected was the lightning from her usually mild blue eyes that David sat dumbfounded, and presently sulkily got up to go. Margaret followed him out and down the bit of garden.
In a moment the marquis, jumping up before he had time to resist him, shot him through the head; the horseman fell, the marquis jumped up in his place without even setting foot in the stirrup, started off at a gallop, and went away like the wind, leaving fifty yards behind him the non-commissioned officer, dumbfounded with what had just passed before his eyes.
But at this juncture up came two rather rollicking older girls, one of whom was fair, with a red complexion. AS soon as their loud voices had driven the governess away, the smaller of the two, who had a pronounced squint, turned to Laura. "Hullo, you kid," she said, "what's YOUR name?" Laura artlessly replied. She was dumbfounded by the storm of merriment that followed.
Or, was it: "Why don't you tell me everything and end it all?" He longed to press her to his breast, as he had once done in the woods when Denzil had been injured, but that was not possible. The thought of that far-off day made him say to her, rather futilely: "How is Denzil? How is Denzil?" There was swift surprise in her face. She seemed dumbfounded, and then she said: "Denzil!
Then the headman was dumbfounded and reluctantly brought out five gold pieces and gave them to the woman. She gave five rupees to the villagers and they made the headman give them ten rupees for having deceived them, and they bought pigs and had a feast. In the course of time the boy grew up and his mother urged him to marry.
I was pretty excited, for I was thinking just then of the awful tragedy that had occurred on Mount Cutler the year before. What if we should find a dead man? Well, what do you suppose we did find? I was dumbfounded. There below us were the dying embers of a log-fire. The flames had long since died, and now it was just smoldering and smoking.
I had never knocked a man down before in my life. It was an amazingly easy thing to do. I could hardly believe that I had done it. Tarnowsy struggled to his feet and faced me, quivering with rage. I was dumbfounded to see that he was not covered with blood. But he was of a light, yellowish green. I could scarcely believe my eyes. "You shall pay for this!" he cried. The tears rushed to his eyes.
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