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"Nothing but assurances coming from such an intelligent, reliable source could induce us to accept the authenticity of these startling statements, which so deeply concern not only the welfare but the honor of the Southern people.
I was eighteen when I first saw Shawn and we fell in love at first sight." She blushed, with a startling effect of youth. "Terence and I were like brother and sister. It would not have worked. We were very fond of each other, but no more than that. You were wrong when you thought Terence would have cared." She had expected some disclaimer, remembering Mrs.
Thornton was not usually an impulsive man. He had recovered himself immediately upon his outburst and was once more calm and self-possessed. "Don't be offended, Foyle," he said, more mildly. "I beg your pardon. It was just a bit startling at first. We've been associated too long for misunderstanding. I'll back you up, and there's not going to be any talk of resignations."
Sobke immediately stopped working, and he could not be induced to make any choices until Doctor Hamilton had left the room. This well indicates his sensitiveness to his surroundings, and his inclination to timidity or nervousness even in the presence of conditions not in themselves startling.
Lloyd George's Finance Act had caught her in its toils, she was being overwhelmed with terrible forms and schedules, searching into her profits, making strange inquiries as to minerals, muddling her with long words. Then out of all the muddle and welter finally emerged the startling fact that the Government expected to have twenty per cent. of her profits on the sale of Donkey Street.
The syllables which begin or end the words are harsh and curiously startling. And it is poetical too: straw is la plume de Beauce, a farmyard feather bed. The word midnight is paraphrased by twelve leads striking it makes one shiver! Rincer une cambriole is to "screw the shop," to rifle a room. What picturesque imagery!
Unfortunately, the particular story in which this person figured was first published serially in an illustrated magazine, and by some extraordinary chance or mischance the artist, in depicting the disagreeable man, drew a portrait of the actual original that was positively startling in its likeness.
One bottle a blue one bore two labels: the smaller, of brilliant orange colour, with the word "Poison" in startling simplicity. He took this up and slowly drew the cork. It was a liniment for neuralgic pains in an overwrought head belladonna. He poured some into a medicine-glass, carefully measuring two tablespoonsful.
"He'd know that without my telling, after our talk last night." "And whatever happens, you will say nothing about having heard Maxine's name from me?" "Nothing," Di answered. And I knew she would keep her word. It is rather a startling sensation for a man to be caught suddenly by the nape of the neck, so to speak, and pitched out of heaven down to the other place.
Thus, the impressions received from distant objects are frequently misinterpreted, and, as we shall see by-and-by, it is in this region of hazy impression that imagination is wont to play its most startling pranks. It is to be observed that the illusions arising from wrong classification will be more frequent in the case of those senses where discrimination is low.
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